1972 Summer Olympics / Judo

Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics
information
venue	Munich
Competition venue	Judo and wrestling hall, Theresienhöhe Exhibition Center
Nations	46
Athletes	148 (148 )
date	August 31 - September 9, 1972
decisions	6th
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At the XX. At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich , six judo competitions were held. The venue was the judo and wrestling hall on the Theresienhöhe exhibition center . There were two more competitions on the program than at the premiere eight years ago (there were no judo competitions in 1968). The fighting time in the preliminary round was six, in the semifinals eight and in the final ten minutes. An Ippon was enough to win .

Balance sheet

Medal table

space	country				total
1	Japan	3	-	1	4th
2	Netherlands	2	-	-	2
3	Soviet Union	1	1	2	4th
4th	Great Britain	-	1	2	3
5	BR Germany	-	1	1	2
6th	Poland	-	1	-	1
	South Korea	-	1	-	1
8th	France	-	-	3	3
9	Brazil	-	-	1	1
	GDR	-	-	1	1
	North Korea	-	-	1	1

Medalist

competitor	gold	silver	bronze
lightweight	Takao Kawaguchi	-	Kim Yong-ik Jean-Jacques Mounier
Welterweight	Toyokazu Nomura	Antoni Zajkowski	Dietmar Hötger Anatolij Novikow
medium weight	Shinobu Sekine	Oh Seung-lip	Jean-Paul Coche Brian Jacks
Light heavyweight	Shota Chochishvili	David Starbrook	Paul Barth Chiaki Ishii
Heavyweight	Willem Ruska	Klaus Glahn	Motoki Nishimura Giwi Onashvili
Open class	Willem Ruska	Vitaly Kuznetsov	Jean-Claude Brondani Angelo Parisi

Time schedule

Competitions		August September
		31.	01.	02.	03.	04th	05.	06th	07th	08th.	09.
lightweight	up to 63 kg
Welterweight	up to 70 kg
medium weight	up to 80 kg
Light heavyweight	up to 93 kg
Heavyweight	over 93 kg
Open class

final

Results

Lightweight (up to 63 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Takao Kawaguchi
2	not forgiven
3	PRK	Kim Yong-ik
	FRA	Jean-Jacques Mounier
5	FRG	Wolfram Koppen
	CUB	Héctor Rodríguez
7th	ROC	Cheng Chi-Hsiang
	HUN	Ferenc Szabó
11	GDR	Karl-Heinz Werner
13	SUI	Marcel Burkhard
19th	AUT	Erich Pointner

Date: September 4, 1972
29 participants from 29 countries

Second-placed Mongol Bachaawaagiin Bujadaa was the doping with Dianabol transferred and his medal revoked . The second place remained vacant.

	Semifinals				final
	September 4th
	Kawaguchi	Ippon 5.58 min
	Kim	xxx
					September 4th
					Kawaguchi	Ippon 0.39 min
					Buidaa	xxx
	Buidaa	8.00 min
	Mounier	xxx

Welter weight (up to 70 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Toyokazu Nomura
2	POLE	Antoni Zajkowski
3	GDR	Dietmar Hötger
	URS	Anatoly Novikov
5	FRG	Engelbert Dörbandt
	HUN	Antal Hetényi
7th	ROC	Wang Jong-She
	SUI	Reto Zinsli
10	AUT	Gerold Jungwirth
18th	LIE	Armin Büchel

Date: September 3, 1972
28 participants from 28 countries

	Semifinals				final
	September 3
	Hötger	xxx
	Zajkowski	8.00 min
					September 3
					Zajkowski	xxx
					Nomura	Ippon 0.27 min
	Nomura	Ippon 3.39 min
	Novikov	xxx

Middle weight (up to 80 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	JPN	Shinobu Sekine
2	COR	Oh Seung-lip
3	FRA	Jean-Paul Coche
	GBR	Brian Jacks
5	URS	Guram Gogolauri
	AUT	Lutz Lischka
7th	FRG	Gerd Egger
	TCH	Petr Jákl
13	SUI	Philippe Aubert
19th	GDR	Rudolf Hendel

Date: September 2, 1972
35 participants from 35 countries

	Semifinals				final
	September 2nd
	Jacks	xxx
	Sekine	8.00 min
					September 2nd
					Sekine	10.00 min
					Oh	xxx
	Oh	Ippon 3.59 min
	Coche	xxx

Light heavyweight (up to 93 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	URS	Shota Chochishvili
2	GBR	David Starbrook
3	FRG	Paul Barth
	BRA	Chiaki Ishii
5	GDR	Helmut Howiller
	United States	James Wooley
7th	FRA	Pierre Albertini
	CAN	Terry Farnsworth
9	SUI	Frédéric Kyburz
14th	AUT	Eduard Aellig
19th	LIE	Hans-Jakob Schädler

Chochishvili versus Starbrook

Date: September 1st, 1972
29 participants from 29 countries

	Semifinals				final
	September 1
	Starbrook	Ippon 5.00 min
	Ishii	xxx
					September 1
					Starbrook	xxx
					Chochishvili	10.00 min
	Barth	xxx
	Chochishvili	Ippon 1.05 min

Heavy weight (over 93 kg)

space	country	athlete
1	NED	Willem Ruska
2	FRG	Klaus Glahn
3	JPN	Motoki Nishimura
	URS	Giwi Onashvili
5	FRA	Jean-Claude Brondani
	United States	Douglas Nelson
7th	MAR	Tijine Benkassou
	SEN	M'Bagnik M'Bodj
9	GDR	Klaus Hennig
11	AUT	Erich Butka
	SUI	Pierre Paris

Date: August 31, 1972
19 participants from 19 countries

	Semifinals				final
	August 31
	Onashvili	xxx
	Glahn	Ippon 2.32 min
					August 31
					Glahn	xxx
					Ruska	Ippon 1.43 min
	Ruska	8.00 min
	Nishimura	xxx

Open class

space	country	athlete
1	NED	Willem Ruska
2	URS	Vitaly Kuznezow
3	FRA	Jean-Claude Brondani
	GBR	Angelo Parisi
5	FRG	Klaus Glahn
	CAN	Douglas Rogers
7th	MAR	Tijine Benkassou
	BRA	Chiaki Ishii
19th	SUI	Ueli Falk
	GDR	Klaus Hennig
	AUT	Johann Pollak

Date: September 9, 1972
26 participants from 26 countries

	Semifinals				final
	the 9th of September
	Brondani	xxx
	Ruska	Ippon 5.02 min
					the 9th of September
					Ruska	Ippon 3.58 min
					Kuznezow	xxx
	Kuznezow	Ippon 5.42 min
	Parisi	xxx

Web links

• Judo at the 1972 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Official results of the 1972 Summer Games (PDF, 29.4 MB)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games - Chronicle III: Mexico City 1968 - Los Angeles 1984 . Sportverlag, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-328-00741-5 , p. 402 .