1979 European Judo Championships

Host City Brussels
Country BEL
Held 24 – 27 May 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 Soviet Union URS 3 2 2 7
2 France FRA 1 1 1 3
3 Italy ITA 1 1 0 2
4 East Germany GDR 1 0 2 3
5 Great Britain GBR 1 0 1 2
6 Switzerland SUI 1 0 0 1
7 Germany GER 0 2 1 3
8 Belgium BEL 0 1 1 2
9 Yugoslavia YUG 0 1 0 1
10 Austria AUT 0 0 2 2
= Hungary HUN 0 0 2 2
= Romania ROU 0 0 2 2
13 Netherlands NED 0 0 1 1
= Poland POL 0 0 1 1

Medal winners

Event 🥇 Gold 🥈 Silver 🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men Felice Mariani ITA Helmut Grobelin GER Aramby Yemizh
Pepi Reiter
URS
AUT
-65 kg, Men Nikolay Solodukhin URS James Rohleder GER Nicolae Vlad
Yves Delvingt
ROU
FRA
-71 kg, Men Neil Adams GBR Ezio Gamba ITA Günter Krüger
Yevgeny Babanov
GDR
URS
-78 kg, Men Harald Heinke GDR Shota Khabareli URS Adam Adamczyk
Mihalache Toma
POL
ROU
-86 kg, Men Jürg Röthlisberger SUI Slavko Obadov YUG Detlef Ultsch
Endre Kiss
GDR
HUN
+95 kg, Men Jean-Luc Rougé FRA Vitaly Kuznetsov URS Imre Varga
Peter Adelaar
HUN
NED
-95 kg, Men Tengiz Khubuluri URS Robert Van de Walle BEL Günther Neureuther
Robert Köstenberger
GER
AUT
Open, Men Aleksey Tyurin URS Angelo Parisi FRA Paul Radburn
Robert Van de Walle
GBR
BEL