1972 European Judo Championships for men

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The 1972 European Judo Championships for men took place in Voorburg from May 12th to 14th . After 1957 in Rotterdam and 1960 in Amsterdam, it was the third European Judo Championships in the Netherlands.

The host nation's team topped the medal table thanks to two wins by Willem Ruska . Jean-Jacques Mounier won his third title in a row.

Three and a half months after the European Championships, the Olympic judo competitions took place in Munich . Willem Ruska also won two gold medals in Munich, the other four European champions from Voorburg each won a bronze medal in Munich, with Angelo Parisi winning his medal in the open class.

Results

Weight class gold silver bronze
Lightweight
(up to 63 kg) 		FranceFrance Jean-Jacques Mounier Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sergei Suslin Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Karl-Heinz Werner Sergei Melnichenko
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
Medium weight
(up to 70 kg) 		Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Dietmar Hötger Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Anatoly Novikov Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany Albert Verhülsdonk Marian Talaj
Poland 1944Poland 
Middle weight
(up to 80 kg) 		FranceFrance Jean-Paul Coche Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Guram Gogolauri Hungary 1957Hungary László Ipacs Andrei Tschupashenko
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
Light heavyweight
(up to 93 kg) 		United KingdomUnited Kingdom Angelo Parisi NetherlandsNetherlands Jan Bosman NetherlandsNetherlands Ernst Eugster Yevgeny Soloduchin
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union 
Heavy weight
(over 93 kg) 		NetherlandsNetherlands Willem Ruska Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Giwi Onashvili Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vitaly Kuznetsov Santiago Ojeda
Spain 1945Spain 
Open class NetherlandsNetherlands Willem Ruska FranceFrance Jean-Claude Brondani Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Sergei Nowikow Klaus Hennig
Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR 

Medal table

 rank  country gold silver bronze total
1 NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands 2 1 1 4th
2 FranceFrance France 2 1 - 3
3 Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR German Democratic Republic 1 - 2 3
4th United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom 1 - - 1
5 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union - 4th 5 9
6th Spain 1945Spain Spain - - 1 1
Germany Federal RepublicFederal Republic of Germany BR Germany - - 1 1
Hungary 1957Hungary Hungary - - 1 1
Poland 1944Poland Poland - - 1 1
Total 6th 6th 12 24

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