The draw for the 2010 World Championships took place this morning at the Hilton Hotel, Tokyo.

Representatives from the 111 participating countries waited in anticipation to see who their fighters would be drawn up against, and this is how it looks for the Brits:

On Thursday 9th September, the +100kg, -100kg, +78kg and -78kg weight categories will take to the mat.

In the -100kg weight category, James Austin will enter proceedings against Kyrgyzstan’s Aleksei Taskin. The 24-year-old is a two-time medallist at Russia’s U23 Championships.

Britain’s -78kg judoka Scarlett Woolcock will face Slovenia’s 19-year-old Ana Velensek who picked up a gold medal at the Sofia World Cup this year. Woolcock is also in the same pool as the World no.1 Cline Lebrun of France.

Gemma Gibbons will fight Anastasiia Matrosova of the Ukraine in the first round. The 28-year-old Ukrainian won gold medals at the 2009 Madrid World Cup and Minsk World Cup, and this year picked up a bronze medal at the Cairo World Cup.

In the +78kg competition , Karina Bryant will face the 2007 World Championships bronze medallist Carola Uilenhoed of the Netherlands in the first round. Her 25-year-old opponent has more recently won a silver medal at the 2010 Cairo World Cup and finished in 5 th place at the 2010 Tunis Grand Prix.

If Bryant wins her first fight and her old-rival Lucija Polavder of Slovenia wins her first fight, she could be fighting the World no.1 in a World Championships once again.

Sarah Adlington will fight Ukraine’s Junior European no.1 Iryna Kindzerska. The 19-year-old’s profile boasts a silver medal at the 2009 Junior World Championships, a gold medal at the 2009 Junior European Championships. The pair met at the 2010 Bucharest World Cup, where Adlington lost to her in the semi-final.

On Friday 10th September the -90kg, -81kg and -70kg weight categories will fight.

In the -81kg competition , Euan Burton will challenge fellow 31-year-old German Velazco from Peru. The highly-regarded Peruvian won the South American Games in March 2010 in his favoured weight class while also scooping a silver medal in the open category.

In Pool C, Bath judoka Tom Reed has received a bye and will open his tournament against the winner of the meeting between Frenchman Antoine Jeannin and China’s Maojian Li. Antoine Jeannin won the French Championships in January 2010 while Li is an emerging 21-year-old.

Michael Horley ( -90kg) will open his account against Georgian Mindia Bodaveli. His 27-year-old opponent won gold at his home nation’s World Cup, held in Tbilisi in January 2010. Horley is also, in the same pool at World ranked no.1 Takashi Ono, and could face him if they both progress.

Two-time Olympian Winston Gordon will fight Thailand’s little-known Wuttikrai Srisoprap.

In the -70kg competition Megan Fletcher has received a bye and for her first contest, she will fight the World ranked no.1, Anett Meszaros of Hungary. The 23-year-old Hungarian’s profile boasts gold medals at the 2010 Moscow Grand Slam and 2010 European Championships, a bronze medal from the 2010 IJF Masters and was the 2009 World Championship silver medallist.

Sally Conway has a bye in the first round and will face either Patcharee Pichaipat (THA) or Mi-Young Choi (JPN) in the second. If she progresses to the third round, she could find herself up against Mina Watanabe of Japan, who is ranked 6 th in the World, if Watanabe also wins her first fight.

On Saturday 11th September, the -73kg, -63kg and -57 competitions will get underway.

Britain’s -73kg fighter, Daniel Williams, will go toe-to-toe against Ukraine’s 27-year-old standout Volodymyr Soroka The 2009 European Champion underlined his credentials by taking gold at May’s IJF Grand Prix in Tunisia.

In the -57kg weight category, Gemma Howell has a bye in the first round and will fight Jin-Sun Kim of South Korea (2008 Chinese Open bronze) in the second.

Faith Pitman (-63kg) will fight World ranked no.9 Munkhzaya Tsedevsuren of Mongolia in the first round. Her opponent has been making a name on the IJF World circuit with 5 th places at the 2010 IJF Masters, Tunis Grand Prix and Moscow Grand Slam

Sarah Clark has received a bye and will face either Sara Collins (USA) or Japan’s Miki Tanaka, who won a bronze medal at the 2010 IJF Masters, in her first contest.

On Sunday 12th September, the -60kg, -66kg, -52kg and -48kg competitors will fight.

Ashley McKenzie ( -60kg) has received a bye and will meet Ukraine’s 22-year-old Anatoliy Laskuta in his opening contest. The Ukrainian recently took a silver medal at the 2010 Cairo World Cup and was a 2007 Junior European silver medallist.

Pool C will see James Millar take on the Czech Republic’s former U23 European Championships champion, Pavel Petrikov. The 24-year-old claimed top honours in the Romanian and Estonian World Cups in 2009.  Millar could meet Hiroaki Hiraoka of Japan, the World ranked no.2, if the both progress to the third round.

In the -66kg weight category, Colin Oates has received a bye and will open his campaign against the World ranked no.2, Russia’s Alim Gadano. The impressive Russian won a World bronze medal in 2008 and came 5 th in the 2009 World Championships, more recently he won a bronze medal at the 2010 Moscow Grand Slam, and won a gold medal at the 2010 Rio de Janeiro Grand Slam.

In the -48kg competition, Kimberley Renicks has a bye in the first round and could face either Elena Moretti, Italy’s 2009 U23 Champion who Renicks has beat at the 2009 GB World Cup or Amani Khalfaoui (TUN) in the second round, depending on who wins out of the two. Renicks could face the World ranked no.5 Jung-Yeon Chung of South Korea if both players progress to the third round.

In the -52kg competition, Sophie Cox will fight unranked fighter Atefa Hussaini (AFG) in the first round.

Kelly Edwards has a bye in the first round and will face the not so well known Margarita Filippova (TKM) in the second round.

The Open weight category fights will be drawn on Saturday, and competition will take place on Monday 13th September.