1979 European Judo Championships

The 1979 European Judo Championships were the 29th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Brussels, Belgium on 26 May 1979.

Medal overview[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg	Felice Mariani		Josef Reiter Aramby Emizh
65 kg	Nikolay Solodukhin	James Rohleder	Yves Delvingt Nicolae Vlad
71 kg	Neil Adams	Ezio Gamba
78 kg	Harald Heinke	Shota Khabareli	Adam Adamczyk Mihalache Toma
86 kg		Slavko Obadov	Detlef Ultsch Endre Kiss
95 kg	Tengiz Khubuluri	Robert Van de Walle	Robert Köstenberger
95+ kg	Jean-Luc Rougé	Vitaly Kuznetsov	Peter Adelaar Imre Varga
Open class		Angelo Parisi	Robert Van de Walle Paul Radburn

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	2	7
2	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
3	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
4	East Germany (DDR)	1	0	2	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
6	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
7	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	1	3
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
9	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
10	Austria (AUT)	0	0	2	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
	Romania (ROM)	0	0	2	2
13	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		8	8	16	32

References[]

• Results of the 1979 European Judo Championships (JudoInside.com)
• Results of the 1979 European Judo Championships (the-sports.org)