1981 World Judo Championships

Host City	Maastricht
Country	NED
Held	3 – 6 September 1981
Competitors	30
Countries	16

Men

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Japan	JPN	4	2	0	6
2	Soviet Union	URS	1	1	2	4
3	France	FRA	1	1	1	3
4	South Korea	KOR	1	0	2	3
5	Great Britain	GBR	1	0	0	1
6	Belgium	BEL	0	1	1	2
=	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	1	1	2
8	Poland	POL	0	1	0	1
=	Romania	ROU	0	1	0	1
10	Canada	CAN	0	0	2	2
=	East Germany	GDR	0	0	2	2
12	Bulgaria	BUL	0	0	1	1
=	Finland	FIN	0	0	1	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1
=	Italy	ITA	0	0	1	1
=	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Yasuhiko Moriwaki	JPN	Pavel Petřikov	TCH	Felice Mariani Phil Takahashi	ITA CAN
-65 kg, Men	Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki	JPN	Constantin Niculae	ROU	Hwang Jeong-Oh Petr Ponomaryov	KOR URS
-71 kg, Men	Park Chong-Hak	KOR	Serge Dyot	FRA	Karl-Heinz Lehmann Vojo Vujević	GDR YUG
-78 kg, Men	Neil Adams	GBR	Jiro Kase	JPN	Kevin Doherty Georgi Petrov	CAN BUL
-86 kg, Men	Bernard Tchoullouyan	FRA	Seiki Nose	JPN	David Bodaveli Detlef Ultsch	URS GDR
+95 kg, Men	Yasuhiro Yamashita	JPN	Grigory Verichev	URS	Vladimír Kocman Juha Salonen	TCH FIN
-95 kg, Men	Tengiz Khubuluri	URS	Robert Van de Walle	BEL	Ha Hyeong-Ju Roger Vachon	KOR FRA
Open, Men	Yasuhiro Yamashita	JPN	Wojciech Reszko	POL	András Ozsvár Robert Van de Walle	HUN BEL