International federation of judo

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The International federation of judo , (usually indicated by the English initials IJF for International judo federation) is an association which gathers the members national federations in the world. Its role is to manage and develop the Judo with the international level.

This federation was born in 1951 on the model already established of the European Federation of judo created in 1948. Its creation answered a will to initially diffuse the practice of the judo in Europe, then to fix the rules of the traditional sport created by Jigoro Kano in 1882.

The IJF gathers 195 national federations today. Its central seat is with Seoul (South Korea).

History

After the Second world war, the will to diffuse the judo out of the Japan is done increasingly large. Thus the possibility is evoked of founding an European Federation by Japanese Gunji Koizumi (founder of the first club of judo in Europe in the United Kingdom, Budokawai) and Risei Kano (wire of the founder of the judo Jigoro Kano). It is into 1948 that the European Union of judo (EJU) east creates by four countries signatories: The United Kingdom, Austria, Netherlands and Italy. France initially remains an observant country because of divergences on the professionalism of the judo. Gradually, of new countries adhere to the European Federation but with the desire of Argentina to join association, a character international is necessary to allow the extension of adhesions.

In 1951, the European Federation leaves the place to the International federation of judo whose first president is Italian Aldo Tori. In catch with differences in point of view with the conservatives of the amateur spirit and purely Japanese of the judo, it yields its place the following year to Risei Kano. It contributes to the creation of the Championnats of the world in 1956.

List presidents

Aldo Torti (Italy) in 1951.
Risei Kano (Japan)), of 1952 with 1965.
Charles Palmer (the United Kingdom) of 1965 with 1979.
Shigeyoshi Matsumae (Japan), of 1979 with 1987.
Sarkis Kaloghlian (Argentina), of 1987 with 1989.
Lawrie Hargrave (), of 1989 with 1991.
Shine Baguena (Spain), of 1991 with 1995.
Yong-Sung Park (), of 1995 with 2007.
Marius Vizer (Austria), starting from 2007.

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