1979 European Judo Championships

Host City Bruxelles
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 Tengiz Khubuluri URS Robert Van de Walle BEL Günther Neureuther
Robert Köstenberger
GER
AUT
+95 kg, Men Jean-Luc Rougé FRA Vitaly Kuznetsov URS Imre Varga
Peter Adelaar
HUN
NED
Open, Men Aleksey Tyurin URS Angelo Parisi FRA Paul Radburn
Robert Van de Walle
GBR
BEL