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IJF CONGRESS BUDAPEST 2021

HEAD REFEREEING DIRECTORS REPORT

We appreciate all involved people, for the incredible effort to support athletes, coaches and all judo-enthusiasts to continue to do judo in all ways during these challenging times. Our special thanks go to all Executive Committee Members, Presidents of the Continental Unions and especially to our President Mr. Vizer to make substantial efforts and bring our beloved sport to such a high level and perspective despite all recent restrictions.

Our high-level experience, cumulated over the years, got active support from the Sport Commission, IT specialists, dedicated media and open suggestions from the national federations.

All our initiatives, judgements, and resolutions get a more and more positive feedback.

Highlights & initiatives, improving every day

The Olympic Qualification of the Referees brought 36 candidates to be selected by the Ranking List. The refereeing top leadership in the world attended the meeting held in Madrid in June 2018. On this occasion, all present adopted a program of increasing the individuals’ value and refereeing.

After the meeting, beyond the regular yearly IJF Refereeing and Coaching Seminar, new tools to understand the rules and decisions were introduced.

For a deeper understanding of the judo techniques and their variations faced during World Judo Tour, the IJF Refereeing Commission cooperated with the IJF Academy.

In 2019, before two IJF Events, in Zagreb and Budapest, all IJF referees nominated for World Judo Tour passed the IJF Academy Nage-waza and Katame-waza examinations.

Working meetings with Supervisors, Assessors and Referees have been held in multiple video conferences, videos with explanations about specific subjects and situations and score given during contests were published in the IJF website (over 1 million viewers).

REFEREEING COMMISSIONHead Directors: BARCOS Juan Carlos, SNIJDERS JanActing Head Referee Director: LASCAU Florin DanielMembers of the Commission: CHYURLIA Pasquale, NGOM Ababacar, JATSKEVITCH Alexander, KAWAGUCHI Takao, ZYGMUNT Arek, GARNERO Ovidio, ADAMS Neil, FLEURY Catherine, JEON Ki Young, MADDALONI Giuseppe, OSAKO Akinobu, QUELLMALZ Udo, BODE Stephan, CORTES Jose Manuel, KNOESTER Carlo, MASHBAT Bukhbat, WANG Guoqiao



Zoom Meeting Referee Commission with Supervisors and Assessors

The refereeing explanation by our experts Florin Daniel Lascau and Neil Adams during the Judo Fest 2020 was as well a great success.

JUDO FEST 2020



During other various working sessions, the concepts related to the judo technique’s principles and evolution in the current competitive activity have been standardized. The credit goes to the professional work of the colleagues of the IT department who continuously analyse and sort the video records of fights of the IJF events.

Our aim is to reach a general standard in applying the rules to improve the understanding of not classified situations by all the parties involved in the contests. We focused on appreciating the scores, reducing negative judo, entering into Ne-Waza and more other.

The Referee Commission strengthen its close collaboration with the Sport and the Education and Coaching Commissions for the most complete information flow and to a continue implementation of the IJF refereeing regulations.

IT Team



We are glad to present here the final selection of the Olympic and Paralympic Games Referees, approved in February 2021 by the IJF Executive Committee.

IJF REFEREE LIST – OLYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020

1 MGL Mrs. TURBAT Enkhtsetseg2 GEO Mr. NUTSUBIDZE Vladimir3 ESP Mr. CAMACHO Raul4 FIN Mr. KARINKANTA Velimatti5 ITA Mrs. CHYURLIA Roberta6 FRA Mr. BATAILLE Mathieu7 JPN Mrs. AMANO Akiko8 RUS Mr. RAKHLIN Evgeny9 AUS Mr. PETR Lubomir10 MEX Mr. GARCIA Everado11 KOR Mrs. HYUN Sook Hee12 DOM Mr. CRUZ Orlando13 BRA Mr. DOS SANTOS Mariano14 UZB Mr. SAYIDOV Ramziddin15 GAB Mr. DJIMBI Jean-Claude16 HUN Mrs. FRIDRICH Annamaria

IJF REFEREE LIST – PARALYMPIC GAMES TOKYO 2020

1 AUT Mr. POIGER Ronald2 BLR Mr. FANDO Artur3 BRA Mr. Da ROCHA VIERA Jefferson4 FRA Mr. DESROSES Olivier5 HUN Mr. HAVASI Viktor6 JPN Mr. HIRANO Hiroyuki7 NED Mr. RAMAEKERS Jhon8 ROU Mrs. BABIUC Iona9 RUS Mr. SMOLIN Vassily10 TUR Mr. BAYAT Nedim11 USA Mr. MOORE Gregg12 UZB Mr. PERETEYKO Vyacheslav



Organisation

Visual Impaired Judo – IBSA

Based on the Memorandum of Understanding between IJF and IBSA, our main objective was to present a homogeneous and qualified referee selection for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games.

The selection for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games was made from the initial group of referees agreed in 2018 qualified by IBSA also, incremented with the IBSA licenced referees.

IBSA Refereeing Directors were appointed in agreement the IJF Refereeing Commission.

Unfortunately, not all Continental Unions were pro-active in the mentioned process. We need to intensify our efforts to have in the next Olympic and Paralympic Games from all Continental Unions elite referee having IBSA license.

IJF Veterans

The Veterans Refereeing Director has been appointed in the IJF Refereeing Commission.

The 2019 Veterans World Championships in Marrakech were a pillar of the cooperation between the two Commissions. We supported and supervised the operations before and during the event. We submitted recommendations for the changes in the Age Divisions.

Continental Unions

We were continually supporting the Continental Unions Referee Directors’ to increase education quality at continental level.

The right perception of the rules generated a better comprehension of the changes at all levels. The Continental Refereeing groups organised expert seminars and education courses endorsing and recognising the same prospective suggested by the IJF Refereeing Commission through video chats.

All these actions contribute in creating a modern and dynamic approach and help the IJF leadership’s efforts to make Judo more attractive and enjoyable not only for judo lovers but also for media, sponsors and spectators.



Statistic 2020 – 2021 (GS TEL AVIV/ISR)





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