1987 World Judo Championships

Host City	Essen
Country	GER
Held	19 – 22 November 1987
Competitors	62
Countries	21

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Japan	JPN	4	3	5	12
2	China	CHN	3	0	1	4
3	France	FRA	2	2	3	7
4	Great Britain	GBR	2	1	3	6
5	Soviet Union	URS	1	2	0	3
6	Germany	GER	1	1	4	6
7	Netherlands	NED	1	1	2	4
=	United States	USA	1	1	2	4
9	South Korea	KOR	1	0	2	3
10	Belgium	BEL	0	2	0	2
11	Australia	AUS	0	1	0	1
=	Egypt	EGY	0	1	0	1
=	North Korea	PRK	0	1	0	1
14	Poland	POL	0	0	3	3
15	Austria	AUT	0	0	1	1
=	Brazil	BRA	0	0	1	1
=	Chinese Taipei	TPE	0	0	1	1
=	Cuba	CUB	0	0	1	1
=	East Germany	GDR	0	0	1	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1
=	Italy	ITA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Kim Jae-Yeop	KOR	Shinji Hosokawa	JPN	Kevin Asano Patrick Roux	USA FRA
-65 kg, Men	Yosuke Yamamoto	JPN	Yury Sokolov	URS	Tamás Bujkó Janusz Pawłowski	HUN POL
-71 kg, Men	Mike Swain	USA	Marc Alexandre	FRA	Kerrith Brown Toshihiko Koga	GBR JPN
-78 kg, Men	Hirotaka Okada	JPN	Bashir Varayev	URS	Lee Koai-Hwa Waldemar Legień	KOR POL
-86 kg, Men	Fabien Canu	FRA	Pak Jong-Chol	PRK	Masao Murata Densign White	JPN GBR
+95 kg, Men	Grigory Verichev	URS	Mohamed Ali Rashwan	EGY	Jochen Plate Xu Guoqing	GER CHN
-95 kg, Men	Hitoshi Sugai	JPN	Theo Meijer	NED	Ha Hyeong-Ju Aurélio Miguel	KOR BRA
Open, Men	Naoya Ogawa	JPN	Elvis Gordon	GBR	Jorge Fiz Henry Stöhr	CUB GDR
-48 kg, Women	Li Zhongyun	CHN	Fumiko Ezaki	JPN	Chou Yu-Ping Jessica Gal	TPE NED
-52 kg, Women	Sharon Rendle	GBR	Kaori Yamaguchi	JPN	Dominique Brun Alessandra Giungi	FRA ITA
-55 kg, Women	Catherine Arnaud	FRA	Suzanne Williams	AUS	Ann Hughes Regina Philips	GBR GER
-61 kg, Women	Diane Bell	GBR	Lynn Roethke	USA	Noriko Mochida Bogusława Olechnowicz	JPN POL
-66 kg, Women	Alexandra Schreiber	GER	Brigitte Deydier	FRA	Roswitha Hartl Hikari Sasaki	AUT JPN
-72 kg, Women	Irene de Kok	NED	Ingrid Berghmans	BEL	Barbara Claßen Yoko Tanabe	GER JPN
+72 kg, Women	Gao Fenglian	CHN	Regina Sigmund	GER	Margaret Castro Angelique Seriese	USA NED
Open, Women	Gao Fenglian	CHN	Ingrid Berghmans	BEL	Karin Kutz Isabelle Paque	GER FRA