World Judo Championships 1985

The 13th Judo World Championships 1985 took place from September 26th to 29th in the South Korean capital Seoul . It was the last world championships in which only men's competitions were held.

Results

Men

Weight class	gold	silver	bronze
Super light weight (up to 60 kg)	Shinji Hosokawa	Peter Jupke	Chasret Tlezeri Tamás Bujkó
Half light weight (up to 65 kg)	Yuri Sokolov	Lee Kyung-keun	Stefen Gawthorpe Yoshiyuki Matsuoka
Lightweight (up to 71 kg)	Ahn Byeong-keun	Mike Swain	Steffen Stranz Wiesław Błach
Medium weight (up to 78 kg)	Nobutoshi Hikage	Torsten Bréchôt	Neil Adams Vladimir Shestakov
Middle weight (up to 86 kg)	Peter Seisenbacher	Georgi Petrov	Witali Pesnjak Fabien Canu
Light heavyweight (up to 95 kg)	Hitoshi Sugai	Ha hyung-joo	Robert Van de Walle Günther Neureuther
Heavy weight (over 95 kg)	Cho Yong-chul	Hitoshi Saitō	Grigory Weritschew Dimitar Sapryanov
Open class	Yoshimi Masaki	Mohamed Ali Rashwan	Willy Wilhelm Chabil Biktaschew

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze	total
1	Japan	4th	1	1	6th
2	South Korea	2	2	-	4th
3	Soviet Union	1	-	5	6th
4th	Austria	1	-	-	1
5	BR Germany	-	1	2	3
6th	Bulgaria	-	1	1	2
7th	United States	-	1	-	1
	GDR	-	1	-	1
	Egypt	-	1	-	1
10	United Kingdom	-	-	2	2
11	Hungary	-	-	1	1
	Poland	-	-	1	1
	France	-	-	1	1
	Belgium	-	-	1	1
	Netherlands	-	-	1	1
	Total	8th	8th	16	32

literature

• Manfred Seifert: Sport85. A yearbook of GDR sports . Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-328-00129-8 , p. 254 .