European Judo Championships for men 1968

The 1968 European Judo Championships for men took place in Lausanne from May 17th to 19th . Five years earlier, the European Championships had already taken place in Geneva and thus also in Switzerland.

The host country team did not win a medal. Peter Herrmann was able to defend his light heavyweight title from the previous year.

Results

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Lightweight (up to 63 kg)	Piruz Martkoplishvili	Sergei Suslin	Serge Feist Denis Pylypiw
Medium weight (up to 70 kg)	Roin Magaltadze	Otari Natelashvili	Czesław Kur Allan Wood
Middle weight (up to 80 kg)	Wolfgang Hofmann	Patrick Clement	Ferdi Miebach Horst Leupold
Light heavyweight (up to 93 kg)	Peter Herrmann	Helmut Howiller	Paul Barth Ernst Eugster
Heavy weight (over 93 kg)	Klaus Glahn	Ansor Kiknadze	Alfred Meier Erich Butka
Open class	Vladimir Saunin	Radovan Krajinović	Klaus Hennig Günter Monczyk

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Soviet Union	3	3	-	6th
2	BR Germany	3	-	4th	7th
3	German Democratic Republic	-	1	2	3
	France	-	1	2	3
5	Yugoslavia	-	1	-	1
6th	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	Austria	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1
	Total	6th	6th	12	24

Web links

• Results of the European Championships 1968 on judoinside.com
• Judo results history on sport-komplett.de