1979 World Judo Championships

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1979 Men's World Judo Championships
Location	Paris, France
Dates	6–9 December 1979
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The 1979 World Judo Championships were the 10th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Paris, France from 6–9 December, 1979. The last tournament in 1977 had been cancelled.

Medal overview[]

Men[]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-60 kg	Thierry Rey		Felice Mariani Yasuhiko Moriwaki
-65 kg	Nikolai Solodukhin	Yves Delvingt	Janusz Pawłowski
-71 kg		Ezio Gamba	Neil Adams Tamaz Namgalauri
-78 kg	Shozo Fujii	Bernard Tchoullouyan	Harald Heinke Park Young-Chul
-86 kg	Detlef Ultsch	Michel Sanchis	Walter Carmona Masao Takahashi
-95 kg	Tengiz Khubuluri	Robert van de Walle	Gunther Neureuther Henk Numan
+95 kg	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Jean-Luc Rougé	Imre Varga
Open	Sumio Endo	Vitali Kuznetsov	Radomir Kovacevic Jean-Luc Rougé

Medal table[]

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	0	3	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
4	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	1	2
5	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	2	3
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
8	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 nations)		8	8	16	32

External links[]

• results on judoinside.com retrieved December 10, 2013
• videos found on de.video.search.yahoo.com retrieved December 10, 2013