European Judo Championships 1979

The European Judo Championships 1979 for men took place from 24 to 27 May at the Belgian Brussels instead. Of the completely assembled defending champions, only the Italians Felice Mariani and Harald Heinke (GDR) were able to repeat their success.

Results

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 60 kg)	Felice Mariani	Helmut Grobelin	Josef Reiter Arambi Jemisch
Half light weight (up to 65 kg)	Nikolai Solodukhin	James Rawhide	Yves Delvingt Nicolae Vlad
Lightweight (up to 71 kg)	Neil Adams	Ezio Gamba	Günter Krüger Evgeny Babanov
Medium weight (up to 78 kg)	Harald Heinke	Shota Khabareli	Adam Adamczyk Mihalache Toma
Middle weight (up to 86 kg)	Jürg Röthlisberger	Slavko Obadov	Detlef Ultsch Endre Kiss
Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg)	Tengis Chubuluri	Robert Van de Walle	Günther Neureuther Robert Köstenberger
Heavy weight (over 95 kg)	Jean-Luc Rougé	Vitaly Kuznezow	Peter Adelaar Imre Varga
Open class	Alexey Tyurin	Angelo Parisi	Paul Radburn Robert Van de Walle

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Soviet Union	3	2	2	7th
2	France	1	1	1	3
3	Italy	1	1	-	2
4th	German Democratic Republic	1	-	2	3
5	United Kingdom	1	-	1	2
6th	Switzerland	1	-	-	1
7th	BR Germany	-	2	1	3
8th	Belgium	-	1	1	2
9	Yugoslavia	-	1	-	1
10	Austria	-	-	2	2
	Romania	-	-	2	2
	Hungary	-	-	2	2
13	Poland	-	-	1	1
	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	Total	8th	8th	16	32

literature

• Manfred Seifert: The year of sport 1980 . Sportverlag Berlin, 1979, ISSN  0232-2137 , p. 184-185 .
• New Germany . No. 124 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1979, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

• Results EM 79
• Judo results history