The Grand Slam tournament in Düsseldorf is a judo tournament in

Düsseldorf Düsseldorf is the capital city of North Rhine-Westphalia, the most populous state of Germany. It is the second-largest city in the state after Cologne and the List of cities in Germany with more than 100,000 inhabitants, seventh-largest city ...

. It is the only

Judo Grand Slam The Judo Grand Slam tournaments are international judo tournaments held by the International Judo Federation as part of the IJF World Tour. After the Olympic Games, World Championships and World Masters, the Grand Slam tournaments are the hi ...

tournament in Germany. The

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tournament was held in

for the first time in

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; it was the successor tournament to the Hamburg Grand Prix tournament. In 2018 the event was upgraded to a Grand Slam competition. There was no Grand Slam tournament in Düsseldorf in 2021 due to the

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. In 2022, the event was planned for June, but was canceled early.

Past winners

Men's

Women's

External links

References

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