World Judo Championships 1979

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The 10th World Judo Championships 1979 took place from 3 to 9 December at the French Paris in the Stade Pierre de Coubertin instead. The World Championships planned in Barcelona in 1977 had been canceled due to the Taiwan conflict .

Results

Men

Weight class gold silver bronze
Super light weight
(up to 60 kg) 		FranceFrance Thierry Rey Korea SouthSouth Korea Gwak U-jong ItalyItaly Felice Mariani Yasuhiko Moriwaki
JapanJapan
Half light weight
(up to 65 kg) 		Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Nikolai Soloduchin FranceFrance Yves Delvingt Poland 1944Poland Janusz Pawłowski Kyōsuke Sahara
JapanJapan
Lightweight
(up to 71 kg) 		JapanJapan Kiyoto Katsuki ItalyItaly Ezio Gamba United KingdomUnited Kingdom Neil Adams Tamas Namgalauri
Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union
Medium weight
(up to 78 kg) 		JapanJapan Shōzō Fujii FranceFrance Bernard Tchoullouyan Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Harald Heinke Park Young-chul
Korea SouthSouth Korea
Middle weight
(up to 86 kg) 		Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR Detlef Ultsch FranceFrance Michel Sanchis Brazil 1968Brazil Walter Carmona Masao Takahashi
JapanJapan
Light heavyweight
(up to 95 kg) 		Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Tengis Chubuluri BelgiumBelgium Robert Van de Walle Germany BRBR Germany Günther Neureuther Henk Numan
NetherlandsNetherlands
Heavy weight
(over 95 kg) 		JapanJapan Yasuhiro Yamashita FranceFrance Jean-Luc Rougé Korea SouthSouth Korea Cho Jea-ki Imre Varga
HungaryHungary
Open class JapanJapan Sumio Endo Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Vitaly Kuznetsov Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Radomir Kovačević Jean-Luc Rougé
FranceFrance

Medal table

 rank  country gold silver bronze total
1 JapanJapan Japan 4th - 3 7th
2 Soviet Union 1955Soviet Union Soviet Union 2 1 1 4th
3 FranceFrance France 1 4th 1 6th
4th Germany Democratic Republic 1949GDR GDR 1 - 1 2
5 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea - 1 2 3
6th ItalyItaly Italy - 1 1 2
7th BelgiumBelgium Belgium - 1 - 1
8th Poland 1944Poland Poland - - 1 1
United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom - - 1 1
Brazil 1968Brazil Brazil - - 1 1
Germany BRBR Germany BR Germany - - 1 1
NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands - - 1 1
HungaryHungary Hungary - - 1 1
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia - - 1 1
Total 8th 8th 16 32

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ Oon Oon Yeoh: Great Judo Championships of the World . Ippon Books, London 1993 ISBN 1-874572-20-8 p. 221