Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ...

is 9th on the all time medal table at the World Judo Championships. Brazil's first World Championships medal was won by

Chiaki Ishii (born 1 October 1941 in Ashikaga, Japan) is a Japanese Brazilian judoka, who won Brazil's first Olympic medal in judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany. Career Ishii trained judo since a very young age, at a dojo loca ...

at Men's -93 kg event in 1971. He won bronze.

Danielle Zangrando Danielle Zangrando (born 25 July 1979 in São Paulo) is a retired Brazilian judoka who competed in the women's lightweight category. She picked up a total of thirty medals in her career, including three from the Pan American Games (1995, 1999, a ...

won the first woman's medal at Women's -56 kg event in 1995. She won bronze.

João Derly João Derly de Oliveira Nunes Jr. (born June 2, 1981 in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul) is a former male judo player from Brazil, the only Brazilian to ever become a two-time world champion (along with Mayra Aguiar), winning consecutively the ...

won the first golden medal at Men's -66 kg event in 2005. At the

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, held in

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, Brazil got the best placing on the medal table, finishing 2nd behind only

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Medalists at the individual competitions

Source:

Medal tables

By gender

By athlete

''Only athletes with at least one gold medal or three medals''

Brazil at the Judo Team World Championships

* Judokas who participated in the qualifying only and received medals. * Judokas who participated in the qualifying only and received medals.

Medal table

References

{{reflist World Championships World Judo Championships