1973 World Judo Championships

Host City Lausanne
Country SUI
Held 22 – 24 June 1973
Competitors 24
Countries 7

Men

Events

Event Gender Held Status Competitors Countries
-63 kg Men Medal 4 3
-70 kg Men Medal 4 3
-80 kg Men Medal 4 3
-93 kg Men Medal 4 3
+93 kg Men Medal 4 3
Open Men Medal 4 3

Medal table

Pos Country 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze Total
1 Japan JPN 6 4 1 11
2 East Germany GDR 0 1 3 4
= Soviet Union URS 0 1 3 4
4 Great Britain GBR 0 0 2 2
5 Cuba CUB 0 0 1 1
= Germany GER 0 0 1 1
= Poland POL 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
-63 kg, Men Yoshiharu Minami JPN Takao Kawaguchi JPN Shengeli Pitskhelauri
Héctor Rodríguez
URS
CUB
-70 kg, Men Toyokazu Nomura JPN Dietmar Hötger GDR Anatoly Novikov
Kazuo Yoshimura
URS
JPN
-80 kg, Men Shozo Fujii JPN Isamu Sonoda JPN Bernd Look
Antoni Reiter
GDR
POL
+93 kg, Men Chonosuke Takagi JPN Dzhibilo Nizharadze URS Sergey Novikov
Keith Remfry
URS
GBR
-93 kg, Men Nobuyuki Sato JPN Takafumi Ueguchi JPN Dietmar Lorenz
David Starbrook
GDR
GBR
Open, Men Kazuhiro Ninomiya JPN Haruki Uemura JPN Klaus Glahn
Wolfgang Zuckschwerdt
GER
GDR