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Prize Money on the Line at Senior Nationals in Birmingham

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by Bill Kellick

Senior elite and kata athletes will be competing for prize money in Birmingham. (Photo by Roy Nanjo)

(Colorado Springs, CO) – Senior elite athletes will be eligible to win up to $500 in prize money at the USA Judo Senior National Championships on May 24 in Birmingham, Ala.

Register now at https://usajudo.sport80.com/public/events.

Thanks to the generous donations from members of the USA Judo community, medalists in the senior elite categories will be eligible to win $500 for gold, $250 for silver and $125 for bronze in each of the Olympic and Paralympic weight categories.

Eligible Categories (Senior Elite Only):
Men’s 60 kg, 66 kg, 73 kg, 81 kg, 90 kg, 100 kg and +100 kg

Women’s 48 kg, 52 kg, 57 kg, 63 kg, 70 kg, 78 kg and +78 kg


Place Per Weight Class

Prize

1st

$500

2nd

$250

3rd

$125 (per bronze medal awarded)

Rules to receive funding:

  • Medalist must have a rank of at least a brown belt.
  • Medalist must have won a minimum of three (3) contested matches, with no byes or no walkovers. Athletes competing in round robin events are not eligible for prize money.

Prize money will also be awarded to gold medalists at the USA Judo Kata National Championships on May 25 in Birmingham.

Athletes competing in the Open and U23 divisions at the Kata National Championships will be eligible for a $500 award ($250 per athlete) to the winning pair of each of the divisions below:

U23 (5 divisions):

  • Nage no Kata
  • Katame no Kata
  • Kodokan Goshin Jutsu
  • Goshin Jutsu
  • Kime no Kata

Open (7 divisions):

  • Nage no Kata
  • Katame no Kata
  • Ju no Kata
  • Kime no Kata
  • Kodokan Goshin Jutsu
  • Isutsu no Kata
  • Koshiki no Kata

Rules to receive funding:

Payments will be made to the 10 winning teams in the Under 23 and Open divisions. Each team that finishes first will receive $500/team ($250/per individual) with the following stipulations:

  • At least two teams must be competing in each category for both the Open and U23 divisions.
  • A team may win more than one $500 prize if they placed first in multiple katas, or in both U23 and Open divisions. There is no prize money reward limit per athlete or team, as long as they enter and place first in a category with two or more teams.
  • If there are divisions that do not qualify for awarding prize money due to not having at least two teams competing, any leftover funds from the allocated/donated $5,000 in prize money will be applied to general kata budget funds and allocated by the USA Judo Kata Committee.

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