1997 World Judo Championships

Host City	Paris
Country	FRA
Held	9 – 12 October 1997
Competitors	63
Countries	22

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Japan	JPN	4	3	3	10
2	France	FRA	4	3	2	9
3	South Korea	KOR	3	0	3	6
4	Poland	POL	2	0	1	3
5	Cuba	CUB	1	3	0	4
6	Spain	ESP	1	1	1	3
7	Great Britain	GBR	1	0	0	1
8	Germany	GER	0	2	0	2
9	Belgium	BEL	0	1	4	5
10	Brazil	BRA	0	1	2	3
=	North Korea	PRK	0	1	2	3
12	Georgia	GEO	0	1	1	2
13	China	CHN	0	0	3	3
14	Italy	ITA	0	0	2	2
15	Austria	AUT	0	0	1	1
=	Latvia	LAT	0	0	1	1
=	Netherlands	NED	0	0	1	1
=	Portugal	POR	0	0	1	1
=	Republic of Moldova	MDA	0	0	1	1
=	Russia	RUS	0	0	1	1
=	Switzerland	SUI	0	0	1	1
=	United States	USA	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Tadahiro Nomura	JPN	Giorgi Revazishvili	GEO	Fúlvio Miyata Cédric Taymans	BRA BEL
-65 kg, Men	Kim Hyuk	KOR	Larbi Benboudaoud	FRA	Georgios Vazagkasvili Victor Bivol	GEO MDA
-71 kg, Men	Kenzo Nakamura	JPN	Christophe Gagliano	FRA	Guilherme Bentes Vsevolods Zeļonijs	POR LAT
-78 kg, Men	Jo In-Cheol	KOR	Djamel Bouras	FRA	Kwak Ok-Chol Patrick Reiter	PRK AUT
-86 kg, Men	Jeon Gi-Yeong	KOR	Marko Spittka	GER	Brian Olson Michele Monti	USA ITA
+95 kg, Men	David Douillet	FRA	Shinichi Shinohara	JPN	Pan Song Tamerlan Tmenov	CHN RUS
-95 kg, Men	Paweł Nastula	POL	Aurélio Miguel	BRA	Ghislain Lemaire Yoshio Nakamura	FRA JPN
Open, Men	Rafał Kubacki	POL	Yoshiharu Makishi	JPN	Dennis van der Geest Harry Van Barneveld	NED BEL
-48 kg, Women	Ryoko Tamura	JPN	Amarilis Savón	CUB	Monika Kurath Pae Dong-Suk	SUI PRK
-52 kg, Women	Marie-Claire Restoux	FRA	Kye Sun-Hui	PRK	Hyeon Suk-Hui Nicole Flagothier	KOR BEL
-55 kg, Women	Isabel Fernández	ESP	Driulis González	CUB	Chiyori Tateno Magali Baton	JPN FRA
-61 kg, Women	Séverine Vandenhende	FRA	Gella Vandecaveye	BEL	Sara Álvarez Jeong Seong-Suk	ESP KOR
-66 kg, Women	Kate Howey	GBR	Anja von Rekowski	GER	Emanuela Pierantozzi Jo Min-Seon	ITA KOR
-72 kg, Women	Noriko Anno	JPN	Diadenis Luna	CUB	Edinanci da Silva Ulla Werbrouck	BRA BEL
+72 kg, Women	Christine Cicot	FRA	Miho Ninomiya	JPN	Beáta Maksymow Sun Fuming	POL CHN
Open, Women	Daima Beltrán	CUB	Raquel Barrientos	ESP	Miho Ninomiya Yuan Hua	JPN CHN