European Judo Championships 1989

The European Judo Championships in 1989 took place in Helsinki from May 11th to 14th . Before that, the European Men's Championships in Helsinki in 1978 had already taken place, but in 1978 no Finn had won a medal. The five medals for the Finnish team in 1989 were the first in front of a home crowd.

Baschir Warajew in light middleweight, Fabien Canu in middleweight and Catherine Arnaud in lightweight won their third title in a row, Amiran Totikashvili in super light weight, Bruno Carabetta in light weight, Ingrid Berghmans in light heavyweight and Angelique Seriese in heavyweight were also able to successfully defend their title from the previous year.

Results

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 60 kg)	Amiran Totikashvili	Petr Šedivák	Philippe Pradayrol Carlos Sotillo
Half light weight (up to 65 kg)	Bruno Carabetta	Sergei Kosminin	Pavel Petřikov József Csák
Lightweight (up to 71 kg)	Jorma Korhonen	Bertalan Hajtós	Marc Alexandre Giorgi Tenadze
Medium weight (up to 78 kg)	Bashir Varayev	Frank Wieneke	Anthonie Wurth Zsolt Zsoldos
Middle weight (up to 86 kg)	Fabien Canu	Vitaly Budyukin	Axel Lobenstein Giorgio Vismara
Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg)	Koba Kurtanidze	Jiří Sosna	Marc Meiling Theo Meijer
Heavy weight (over 95 kg)	Rafał Kubacki	Thomas Müller	Hans Buiting Grigori Weritschew
Open class	Juha saloons	Frank Möller	Sergei Kosorotov Harry Van Barneveld

Women

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 48 kg)	Cécile Nowak	Karen Briggs	Małgorzata Roszkowska Marjo Vilhola
Half light weight (up to 52 kg)	Jaana Ronkainen	Dominique Maaoui-Brun	Joanna Majdan Sharon Rendle
Lightweight (up to 56 kg)	Catherine Arnaud	Maria Gontowicz	Jenny Gal Miriam Blasco
Medium weight (up to 61 kg)	Catherine Fleury-Vachon	Lenka Šindlerová	Diane Bell Yael Arad
Middle weight (up to 66 kg)	Emanuela Pierantozzi	Alexandra Schreiber	Ulla Werbrouck Claire Lecat
Light heavyweight (up to 72 kg)	Ingrid Berghmans	Elisabeth Karlsson	Marion van Dorssen Aline Batailler
Heavy weight (over 72 kg)	Angelique Seriese	Anne Åkerblom	Nathalie Lupino Beata Maksymow
Open class	Angelique Seriese	Beata Maksymov	Ingrid Berghmans Jelena Gutschina

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	France	5	1	5	11
2	Soviet Union	3	2	4th	9
3	Finland	3	1	1	5
4th	Netherlands	2	-	5	7th
5	Poland	1	2	3	6th
6th	Belgium	1	-	3	4th
7th	Italy	1	-	1	2
8th	Czechoslovakia	-	3	1	4th
9	BR Germany	-	2	1	3
	German Democratic Republic	-	2	1	3
11	Hungary	-	1	2	3
	United Kingdom	-	1	2	3
13	Sweden	-	1	-	1
14th	Spain	-	-	2	2
15th	Israel	-	-	1	1
	Total	16	16	32	64

Web links

• Results of the European Championships 1989 on judoinside.com
• Judo results history on sport-komplett.de