Prior to the final against France, Japan had not lost a single individual match in the mixed team event and were the firm favourites for the gold.

In the opening bout, Soichi Hashimoto forced Joan-Benjamin Gaba into three shidos to give Japan the lead. 

Saki Niizoe put the favourites two up with a lovely uchi-mata for a golden-score waza-ari versus Marie-Eve Gahié.

Kenta Nagasawa put Japan on the verge of victory by getting a waza-ari in the golden score over Francis Damier, who has been one of the stars of the mixed team competition.

Maya Akiba ensured Japan's unbeaten status stayed intact, defeating French teenager Lea Fontaine, who was given three shidos to complete the whitewash.

In the bronze-medal bouts, Uzbekistan defeated South Korea 4-1 with Muzaffarbek Turoboyev getting the decisive victory in the men's over-100-kilogram bout against Won Jong-hoon.

Obidkhon Nomonov had a fantastic day in helping Uzbekistan to the bronze and started off the third-place playoff with a win over Ahn Joon-sung via waza-ari.

Gulnoza Matniyazova made it 2-0 with an ippon in under 90 seconds against Han Hee-ju and Shermukhammad Jandreev made it 3-0 to Uzbekistan with a seoi-nage for the waza-ari over Han Ju-yeop.

Kim Ha-yun was able to wear down Iriskhon Kurbanbaeva and pull one back for South Korea, but Turoboyev finished the job off with a quick ippon on Won.

In the following bronze-medal match Brazil claimed the win with a 4-2 victory over the Russian Judo Federation (RJF), finishing off with a great hold down from Ketelyn Nascimento on Anastasiia Konkina.

In a back-and-forth affair, Denis Iartcev gave the RJF a lead with a waza-ari over Eduardo Barbosa, before Maria Portela levelled the scoring with a waza-ari in golden score against Dali Liluashvili.

Khusen Khalmurzaev forced Rafael Macedo into mistakes to put the RJF back in front after he received three shidos, but Beatriz Souza and David Moura both scored ippons to put the Brazilians in the lead for the first time.

Nascimento was under serious pressure against Konkina, but managed to turn her opponent over for the ippon, shedding tears after doing so.

Japan finished far ahead at the top of the medals table with six golds, four silvers and two bronzes.

France, Georgia, Spain, the RJF, Portugal, Canada, Germany, Croatia and Belgium all won one gold each.