e e good afternoon ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the official draw of the parudo event of the par Olympic Games Paris 2024 my name is Nicholas mesner I'm the igf and IA media director for that event Judo fans have been waiting for that moment for many years in the next 3 days the best par Judo athletes in the world will be competing at their Arena sh Mar for the most awaited paralympic title let me first introduce you to our guest of honors mrar haimov president of international blind Sports Federation Mr yanos strados Judo chair of the international blind Sports Federation Dr liisa Allen igf Secretary General and special adviser for par Paris 2024 Mr Alexan putu parudo Sports manager Paris 2024 Mr Hank plur Judo referee director of the international blind Sports Federation and Mrs sa Alvarez Menendez Judo Sports director of the international blind Sports Federation it is my pleasure to give the floor first to Mr ilgar haimov President of the international blind Sports Federation okay okay dear athletes and coaches dear friends and colleagues dear ladies and Gent gentlemen today we are holding the draw for the par Olympic Judo tournament at the thir glance this is a routine technical procedure but this draw marks the beginning of the tournament that we have all been working towards for several years of after Tokyo par Olympic Games this is beginning of a tournament that will be held under completely new rules this is the beginning of a tournament that will have a completely new status I congratulate the ipsa Judo committee for their excellent work I thank the Paris 2024 organizing committee I thank the international par Olympic Committee I thank the international Judo Federation for their continued supports friends let's make this competition Unforgettable thank you thank you very much Mr HOV and now I pass the floor to Mr yanos Judo chair of the international blind Sports fation dear Judo family de of parudo dear guests welcome everybody to the par Olympics Judo event first of all I want to congratulate all Judo who reach participation for the games and the people who have them I would like to thank for IPC for the excellent decision made after Tokyo that IPC shared the a classes those in addition to partially cited athletes blind and nearly bind athletes also have the same chance of winning medals I thank to the local organizers for their high level Preparatory work as well as the support of the international blind sport Association Federation and the international Judo Federation and the teamwork at ipsa Judo committee this enables to continuous development of our Judo I received a message from Mr mariio visz that president of igf who wishes the athletes the coaches and the entire professional staff included the referees the good luck today we have competitors for 57 from 63 countries in our world ranking list at par Olympics we have 148 competitor slots from 43 countries and we fight for 16 events wish you high level fights and great success for everybody thank you for your attention thank you very much Mr tados and now I pass the floor to Dr liisa Allan International Judo Federation Secretary General and special advisor for par Judo Paris 2024 thank you Nika dear Esa president rahimov deara Judo chair tardos dear guests dear Judo family it is a great pleasure to be here with you in Paris where Mr putu and the organizing committee are dedicated to producing the paraj Judo competition to the highest possible standard we appreciate the commitment and dedication of the IPC IA and Paris 2024 staff all the technical officials and volunteers as they are vital to the success of the event I now sh with you some useful information on media starting with the mixed Zone all athletes must pass through the mix Zone after each contest and victory ceremony and everyone must follow the procedure as they are guided through the media area during the entire event athletes and delegates may be interv interviewed by the igf Ia media team and we would love you to use this opportunity to give us your views and stories so that we can share them with the Judo Community worldwide all articles and pictures will be published on the igf website on social media such as Instagram Facebook and X using the tags at Judo Gallery at Judo follow the par Olympic Games on the ipsa and IPC websites the media contact during the event is Nicola mesner Medical Services National par Olympic committees follow the IPC anti-doping and medical rules including equipment and the needle-free policy medical services are provided in the village the training venue and also venue where the medical room is near the warm-up area inside there are for the MPC Medical staff to provide services for athletes Paris 2024 medical staff will provide first aid and emergency care services information for the coaches the dress code during the preliminary rounds can be National tracksuit with trousers coaches can wear National official short sleeved or long sleeved t-shirt and closed toe sport shoes for the final block a formal suit and formal shoes or the official delegation suit if there is no no official delegation suit for the event then the national track suit can be accepted the following are forbidden at any time on the field of play shorter trousers undressed upper body any kind of cap or head covering jeans sweaters or similar unrelated Sports clothing very important information for the coaches and athletes we will have a temporary rule because the layout of the competition venue there is a very long route from the athlete exit to the warm-up area so we will have a rule change only for this event where the athletes will be given a minimum of 20 minutes between contests instead of the normal 10 minutes however coaches you must make sure that your athletes are on time for their contest if you have any questions about this rule please come and see us let us all enjoy the next 3 days of what promises to be an exceptional display of worldclass Judo good luck to all the athletes thank you Dr liisa Allen for your kind words and those useful information for smooth running of the competition and now I pass the floor to Mr alexand putu par Judo Sports manager for Paris 2024 for some more information about the event hello everyone first of all I'm really glad to welcome you all here in Paris for the parudo competition I want to felicitate all the Calif CIF athletes ready to contest here in our beautiful competition venue I want to share with you useful information for the competition training venue we will have a train we have a training venue at Park desort Augusto Delon there are 10 training areas in this area please book online via the application or at the sport information desk at the paralympic Village all booking slots must be confirmed the day before training by 40000 p.m. free access lust may be available for the next day or the day for the athletes back numbers the sewing took place in the paralympic village and we will have a sewing home in the competition venue directly for every day of the competition between 8:30 and 6:30 p.m. please notize that only emergency seing repair services will be available as the competition venue you will have test scales in the par Olympic Village shoing room in the sport information center at the first floor you will also find test scales in the changing room and Sona in the fitness center of the paralympic village finally you will have test test scales in the ring space for over Sports at the main entry of the paralympic village for the weighin the location is at the paralympic Village sport information center at the first floor it will take place on the 4th the 5th and the 6th of September for The Unofficial weighin between 5:00 p.m. and 5:50 p.m. and for the official weigh-in between 6:00 p.m. and 700 p.m. you will need only your accreditation to access the weigh-in for the random weighin the location will be at the competition venue shandar arena in the room in the J judogi control area random selected athletes must weigh in on the 5ifth and the 6th of September between 9 and 9:15 and on the 7th of September between 8:30 and 845 5% weight tolerance will be accepted regarding the competition program the competition will take place at Shand Mars Arena on the Thursday 5th and the Friday 6th of September preliminaries rage semi-finals will take place on two tatamis at 10: for the final block it will take place on one tatami only for medal contest and victory ceremony at 4: p.m. on the Saturday 7th of September preliminaries repage and semi-finals will will take place on two tatami at 9:30 and for the final block on one tatami at 3:30 thank you Mr putu and now on refering matter we have Mr ank PL Judo referee director of the international blind Sports Federation dear Udo friends on behalf of the epsa Udo referee commission I would like to inform you that we are very happy with the selection of this group of Judo referees they are all very experienced igf referees with a lot of experience in visual impaired Judo with thanks to the igf for the great support in the selection of this group referees during the past period we have held a meeting at every CL slam and every CL pre to discuss the rules with the coaches you as a coach all have a lot of experience you are all well prepared and informed so it's not necessary to explain her on this par Olympic the rules again during this par Olympic we will follow all fights with three commission members with help of the video system in order to arrive an excellent referee product together with the referees if you have questions about refereeing please contact us the referee commission wishes you all a fantastic and successful par Olympic and thank you very much for your attention thank you very much Mr PL on this important matter during a judo event and now for the technical part of the draw I invite Mrs Alvarez Menendez to conduct the draw thank you niik Theo friends we start with some small statistics we have 46 athlets from 43 countries 78 men and 68 women this is the distribution of the C of the outlets by categories in the women categories and this is the numbers for the men categories and now we will start with the draw with the going categories draw first category is J1 46 48 kilos sorry we have eight Outlets please draw [Music] thank you J 157 category kilos category 11 athletes please draw [Music] thank you J1 less than 70 kilos category we have nine athletes please throw thank you and the last J1 women category less than 70 kilos nine athlets please [Music] row thank you now we will start J2 female categories with less than 48 kilos we have eight athlets please [Music] draw thank you J2 under 57 kilos category nine athlets please row [Music] thank you J2 does less than 70 kilos category we have six Outlets please draw [Music] thank you J2 plus than 7 kilos category eight athlets please throw thank you this was the last women's category let's start with man first category is J1 160 Kos category with 10 Outlets please [Music] draw thank you j73 kilos category 13 Outlets please [Music] throw thank you J1 less than 90 kilos category 11 athletes please [Music] throw thank you and the last J1 Man category plus the 90 kilos eight Outlets please [Music] do thank you J2 less than 60 kilos category n athlets please throw [Music] thank you J2 73 kilos category 11 athlets please [Music] throw thank you to less than 90 kilos category nine athletes please [Music] throw thank you and our last category J2 plus the 90 kilos seven athlets please brow thank you this was the last category let's see now the mat's distribution by days this is M distribution for day one day two and day three please scan this code to join our telegram group and get very important information I wish good luck to all the athletes thank you very much to Mrs Sarah Alvarez Menendez the day is cast it's now time for the competition thank you very much to all our guests and to all those who attended the official draw online let's meet tomorrow on day one of the parudo event at 10: a.m. for the first contest good luck to everyone and enjoy the par Olympic Games Paris 2024