1980 European Judo Championships

The 1980 European Judo Championships for men took place from May 15th to 18th in the Austrian capital Vienna . The Italian Felice Mariani won his third title in a row. This time Neil Adams was one weight class higher and Alexey Tyurin was honored in the heavyweight division.

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 60 kg)	Felice Mariani	Josef Reiter	Reinhard Arndt Thierry Rey
Half light weight (up to 65 kg)	Torsten Reissmann	Valentin Tarakanov	Imre Gelencser Constantin Niculae
Lightweight (up to 71 kg)	Nicolae Vlad	Chris Bowles	Karl-Heinz Lehmann Evgeny Babanov
Medium weight (up to 78 kg)	Neil Adams	Harald Heinke	Bernard Tchoullouyan Mircea Frățică
Middle weight (up to 86 kg)	Aleksandrs Jackēvičs	Peter Seisenbacher	Detlef Ultsch Peter Donnelly
Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg)	Jean-Luc Rougé	Dietmar Lorenz	Robert Van de Walle Ramaz Kharshiladze
Heavy weight (over 95 kg)	Alexey Tyurin	Imre Varga	Peter Adelaar Angelo Parisi
Open class	Robert Van de Walle	Angelo Parisi	Sergei Novikov Vladimir Kocman

Medal table

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

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport80. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, 1980, ISSN  0232-203X , p. 249 .
• New Germany . No. 113-117 . Socialist Unity Party of Germany, 1980, ISSN  0323-3375 .

Web links

• Results EM 80
• Judo results history