1979 World Judo Championships

Host City	Paris
Country	FRA
Held	6 – 9 December 1979
Competitors	31
Countries	14

Men

Events

Event	Gender	Held	Status	Competitors	Countries
-60 kg	Men	—	Medal	4	4
-65 kg	Men	—	Medal	4	4
-71 kg	Men	—	Medal	4	4
-78 kg	Men	—	Medal	4	4
-86 kg	Men	—	Medal	4	4
-95 kg	Men	—	Medal	4	4
+95 kg	Men	—	Medal	4	4
Open	Men	—	Medal	4	4

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Japan	JPN	4	0	3	7
2	Soviet Union	URS	2	1	1	4
3	France	FRA	1	4	1	6
4	East Germany	GDR	1	0	1	2
5	South Korea	KOR	0	1	2	3
6	Italy	ITA	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium	BEL	0	1	0	1
8	Brazil	BRA	0	0	1	1
=	Germany	GER	0	0	1	1
=	Great Britain	GBR	0	0	1	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1
=	Netherlands	NED	0	0	1	1
=	Poland	POL	0	0	1	1
=	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Thierry Rey	FRA	Gwak U-Jong	KOR	Felice Mariani Yasuhiko Moriwaki	ITA JPN
-65 kg, Men	Nikolay Solodukhin	URS	Yves Delvingt	FRA	Janusz Pawłowski Kyosuke Sahara	POL JPN
-71 kg, Men	Kiyoto Katsuki	JPN	Ezio Gamba	ITA	Neil Adams Tamaz Namgalauri	GBR URS
-78 kg, Men	Shozo Fujii	JPN	Bernard Tchoullouyan	FRA	Harald Heinke Park Yeong-Cheol	GDR KOR
-86 kg, Men	Detlef Ultsch	GDR	Michel Sanchis	FRA	Wálter Carmona Masao Takahashi	BRA JPN
+95 kg, Men	Yasuhiro Yamashita	JPN	Jean-Luc Rougé	FRA	Jo Jae-Gi Imre Varga	KOR HUN
-95 kg, Men	Tengiz Khubuluri	URS	Robert Van de Walle	BEL	Günther Neureuther Henk Numan	GER NED
Open, Men	Sumio Endo	JPN	Vitaly Kuznetsov	URS	Radomir Kovačević Jean-Luc Rougé	YUG FRA