1971 World Judo Championships

Host City	Ludwigshafen
Country	GER
Held	2 – 4 September 1971
Competitors	23
Countries	10

Men

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Japan	JPN	5	4	2	11
2	Netherlands	NED	1	0	0	1
3	Germany	GER	0	1	1	2
=	Soviet Union	URS	0	1	1	2
5	East Germany	GDR	0	0	2	2
=	Great Britain	GBR	0	0	2	2
7	Brazil	BRA	0	0	1	1
=	France	FRA	0	0	1	1
=	Poland	POL	0	0	1	1
=	South Korea	KOR	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-63 kg, Men	Takao Kawaguchi	JPN	Toyokazu Nomura	JPN	Choi Jong-Sam Sergey Suslin	KOR URS
-70 kg, Men	Hisashi Tsuzawa	JPN	Hiroshi Minatoya	JPN	Dietmar Hötger Antoni Zajkowski	GDR POL
-80 kg, Men	Shozo Fujii	JPN	Yoshinari Shigematsu	JPN	Guy Auffray David Starbrook	FRA GBR
+93 kg, Men	Wim Ruska	NED	Klaus Glahn	GER	Hisakazu Iwata Keith Remfry	JPN GBR
-93 kg, Men	Fumio Sasahara	JPN	Nobuyuki Sato	JPN	Helmut Howiller Chiaki Ishii	GDR BRA
Open, Men	Masatoshi Shinomaki	JPN	Vitaly Kuznetsov	URS	Klaus Glahn Shinobu Sekine	GER JPN