European Judo Championships 1988

The 1988 European Judo Championships took place in Pamplona from 19 to 22 May . Before that, the European Men's Championships in 1973 and the European Women's Championships in 1981 took place in Spain.

The hosting Spanish team won six medals. A total of five title holders from the previous year also won in 1988. Grigory Weritschew had fought for the title in the open class last year, this time he won the heavyweight division. Defended their title: Baschir Varajew in the light middleweight division, Fabien Canu in the middleweight division, Catherine Arnaud in the lightweight division and Ingrid Berghmans in the open class.

Results

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 60 kg)	Amiran Totikashvili	Patrick Roux	Neil Eckersley Carlos Sotillo
Half light weight (up to 65 kg)	Bruno Carabetta	Guido Schumacher	Udo Quellmalz Sergei Kosminin
Lightweight (up to 71 kg)	Joaquín Ruiz	Sven Loll	Hans Engelmeier Krzysztof Kaminski
Medium weight (up to 78 kg)	Bashir Varayev	Frank Wieneke	Peter Reiter Pascal Tayot
Middle weight (up to 86 kg)	Fabien Canu	Densign White	Ben Spijkers Peter Seisenbacher
Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg)	Jiří Sosna	Yevgeny Pechurov	Robert Van de Walle Marko Walew
Heavy weight (over 95 kg)	Grigory Werichev	Alexander von der Groeben	Henry Stöhr Dimitar Sapryanov
Open class	Elvis Gordon	Akaki Kibordzee	Damian Stoikow László Tolnai

Women

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 48 kg)	Jessica Gal	Katalin Parragh	Dolores Veguillas Martine Dupond
Half light weight (up to 52 kg)	Alessandra Giungi	Jaana Ronkainen	Joanna Majdan Dominique Maaoui-Brun
Lightweight (up to 56 kg)	Catherine Arnaud	Miriam Blasco	Jenny Gal Gisela Hämmerling
Medium weight (up to 61 kg)	Diane Bell	Begoña Gomez	Frauke Eickhoff Renate Lehner
Middle weight (up to 66 kg)	Alexandra Schreiber	Emanuela Pierantozzi	Roswitha Hartl Brigitte Deydier
Light heavyweight (up to 72 kg)	Ingrid Berghmans	Isabel Cortavitarte	Elisabeth Karlsson Laetitia Meignan
Heavy weight (over 72 kg)	Angelique Seriese	Isabelle Paque	Sharon Lee Karin Kutz
Open class	Ingrid Berghmans	Emmanuelle Mikula	Tsvetana Bosilova Beata Maksymov

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	France	3	3	5	11
2	Soviet Union	3	2	1	6th
3	United Kingdom	2	1	2	5
4th	Netherlands	2	-	2	4th
5	Belgium	2	-	1	3
6th	BR Germany	1	3	3	7th
7th	Spain	1	3	2	6th
8th	Italy	1	1	-	2
9	Czechoslovakia	1	-	-	1
10	German Democratic Republic	-	1	2	3
11	Hungary	-	1	1	2
12	Finland	-	1	-	1
13	Bulgaria	-	-	4th	4th
	Austria	-	-	4th	4th
15th	Poland	-	-	3	3
16	Sweden	-	-	1	1
	Switzerland	-	-	1	1
	Total	16	16	32	64

Web links

• Results of the European Championships 1988 on judoinside.com
• Judo results history on sport-komplett.de