The National Gymnastics Arena, Baku, Azerbaijan set to host the judo world championships

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Every day the competition will start at 10am, except for the teams where the first matches are fixed at 9am. The final block will start every day at 16:00.
DAY 1 - Thursday 20 September: M-60 / W-48 DAY 2 - Friday 21 September: M-66 / W-52 DAY 3 - Saturday 22 September: M-73 / W-57 DAY 4 - Sunday 23 September: M-81 / W-63 DAY 5 - Monday 24 September: M-90 / W-70 DAY 6 - Tuesday 25 September: M-100 / W-78 DAY 7 - Wednesday 26 September: M+100 / W+78 DAY 8 - Thursday 27 September: Mixed Teams
This year the competition will be spread over eight days, instead of seven in previous editions. Eight days of passion and high performance. Each day there will be two weight classes that will compete for the world title, while the last day will be dedicated to the mixed team tournament.
After a particularly successful first edition last year in Budapest, this format of competition will appear again on the international scene at the Baku 2018 Championships, before being honoured next year in Japan for the 2019 Worlds and especially before the 2020 Tokyo Games where for the first time in history a team tournament will be part of the Olympic program. But let's not go too fast because in less than thirty days, we will know if Japan will succeed to itself or if another strong nation of judo will subtilize the team world title.

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