1962 European Judo Championships

Host City	Essen
Country	GER
Held	12 – 14 May 1962
Competitors	54
Countries	12

Men

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	France	FRA	5	2	6	13
2	Netherlands	NED	3	4	3	10
3	Soviet Union	URS	2	2	1	5
4	East Germany	GDR	1	1	3	5
5	Great Britain	GBR	1	1	2	4
6	Belgium	BEL	1	0	1	2
7	Italy	ITA	0	2	1	3
8	Germany	GER	0	1	4	5
9	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	0	1	1
=	Hungary	HUN	0	0	1	1
=	Switzerland	SUI	0	0	1	1
=	Yugoslavia	YUG	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-68 kg, Men	Jan Snijders	NED	Roger Forestier	FRA	Franz-Hermann Fischer Kurt Leise	GER GER
+80 kg, Men	Anton Geesink	NED	Mathieu Vallauri	FRA	Pierre Brouha Roussey	BEL FRA
-80 kg, Men	Henri Courtine	FRA	Gerhard Stamer	GER	Lange Romain Pacalier	NED FRA
Open, Men	Anton Geesink	NED	George Kerr	GBR	André Leclerc Kenneth Maynard	FRA GBR
Team, Men	France	FRA	Netherlands	NED	Soviet Union Italy	URS ITA
Lightweight Amateur, Men	André Bourreau	FRA	Erich Zielke	GDR	František Kuna Michel Lesturgeon	TCH FRA
Middleweight Amateur, Men	Lionel Grossain	FRA	Jaap Mackaay	NED	Alfred Karazhuk Otto Smirat	GDR GDR
Heavyweight Amateur, Men	Herbert Niemann	GDR	Willem Dadema	NED	Adri Smits Karl Nitz	NED GDR
Open Amateur, Men	Anzor K'ik'nadze	URS	Mikhail Lukazhev	URS	Bludze Jan Van Ierland	SUI NED
1 Dan, Men	Marcel Etienne	BEL	Boris Mishchenko	URS	Peter Herrmann Tamás Dávid	GER HUN
2 Dan, Men	Anzor Kibrotsashvili	URS	Remo Venturelli	ITA	Borivoje Cvejić Wolfgang Ehler	YUG GER
3 Dan, Men	Alan Petherbridge	GBR	Jan Van Ierland	NED	John Ryan Michel Franceschi	GBR FRA
4 Dan, Men	Jean-Pierre Dessailly	FRA	Nicola Tempesta	ITA	Michel Bourgoin	FRA