1972 European Judo Championships

The 1972 European Judo Championships were the 21st edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Voorburg, Netherlands on 13 and 14 May 1971. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.

Medal overview[]

Individual[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
63 kg	Jean-Jacques Mounier	Sergey Suslin	Karl-Heinz Werner
70 kg	Dietmar Hötger	Anatoly Novikov	Marian Talaj
80 kg	Jean-Paul Coche	Guram Gogolauri	László Ipacs
93 kg	Angelo Parisi	Jan Bosman
93+ kg	Willem Ruska	Givi Onashvili	Vitaly Kuznetsov Santiago Ojeda
Open class	Willem Ruska	Jean-Claude Brondani	Klaus Hennig Sergey Novikov

Teams[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Soviet team: Anatoly Novikov Sergey Suslin Guram Gogolauri Vitali Kuznetsov	French team: Jean-Jacques Mounier Patrick Vial Guy Auffray Jean-Luc Rougé François Besson	Dutch team: Theo Schneider Martin Poglajen Willem Ruska  British team: Edward Mullen Brian Jacks David Starbrook Keith Remfry

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	France	3	1	0	4
2	Netherlands	2	1	1	4
3	East Germany	1	0	2	3
4	Soviet Union	0	4	5	9
5	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 nations)		6	6	12	24

References[]

• Results of the 1972 European Judo Championships (JudoInside.com)