High level judo is demanding combat sports which, beside excellent physical condition, requires high level of technical and tactical skills. Coaches point out technical and tactical preparation as a most important for achieving a success in competition. There are a lot of performance analysis research with technique and tactic as a main subject. Still, very few of them deals with the topic of penalties which are an important tactical tool of the judokas. Aim of this research is to analyze frequency and type of penalties awarded in combats conducted by World top judokas. The research sample consisted of 132 fights from most important judo competitions held in 2018. Criteria for including the fight in the sample was that one of the competitors is one of the TOP 10 ranked judokas on the IJF'fs World ranking list in the under 90kg category. Observational instrument for registration of unsuccessful attacks, successful attacks and penalties was created for the purpose of the study. We registered 792 actions, from which 311 or 39% were penalties. Infringement of the rules upon which referee decided to award a penalty to one of the competitors were as follows: passivity (49%), bad kumikata (20%), false attack (16%), blocking attitude (6%), stepping out of the contest area (5%), and other (4%). Chi-square test showed that there is no significant difference between frequencies of enforced penalties between World best judokas (Top 10) and their opponents, lower ranked judokas in the under 90kg category (p>0.05). Results has shown that penalties are the important part of the judo match and that they are used, as a tactical tool, in the same way by all high level judokas. As a coaching advice we can recommend to athletes to try to avoid three most frequent rule infringement: being passive, establish a bad kumikata and conducting a false attack.
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