With those magical memories of Tokyo now 10 months old, judo now turns its attention to the 2024 Games in Paris as a qualifier for the XXXIII (33^rd) The Olympiad begins this weekend as the IJF World Tour heads to Mongolia for the Ulaanbaatar Grand Slam.

6 GB Judoka will compete; are looking to start their Paris Olympic qualifying campaign strong in the Mongolian capital.

friday 24^e

Lele Nairne will be GB Judo’s only competitor on the opening day. The -57kg judoka and silver medalist of the 2018 U23 European Championship will face 4^e top seed Enkhriilen Lkhagvatogoo (MGL), who won bronze at the Paris Grand Slam earlier this year, in her first round.

saturday 25^e

Abu Dhabi Grand Slam bronze medalist Lachlan Moorhead competes for the first time since the European Championships in Sofia. Moorhead was drawn against Bekadil Shaimerdenov (KAZ) in Round 1.

Competing in the -73kg category is Daniel Powell who will face Ylham Kemalov (TKM) in the first round.

sunday 26^e

Rhys Thompson made his second career Grand Slam appearance alongside Harry Lovell Hewittwho is competing for the first time since March, in the -100kg category.

Thompsonwho recently joined the British Judo National Training Center as a full-time athlete, will face three-time Grand Slam gold medalist Kentaro Iida (JPN) in the second round, after a first-round bye.

Lovell-Hewitt will face Nyamkhuu Darikhuu (MGL) in the first round.

Gold medalist of the European Cup in Dubrovnik, Jamal Petgrave was drawn against Puntsagtseren Ganbaatar (MGL) in the first round of the -90kg category.

Elsewhere this weekend, a small squad from the Bradley Stoke Judo Club traveled to Bosnia and Herzegovina for the Banja Luka Junior European Cup. Ethan Naire will compete in the -73kg category, while Ryan Rijksen-Salman fight in the -90kg category. Nairnewho competes on Saturday, enters at 5^eseed while Rijksen-Salmanwho fights Sunday, is seeded 7^e.

Preliminary round action in Mongolia kicks off at 5.30am (BST) on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

The final block is due to start at 10:00 a.m. (BST) each day.

The action in Bosnia will kick off at 8:00am (BST) on Saturday and Sunday.

You can watch all the action from the European Cadet Judo Championships live on the British Judo Competition Hub page each day.