1981 European Judo Championships

Host City	Debrecen
Country	HUN
Held	14 – 17 May 1981
Competitors	32
Countries	13

Men

Events

Medal table

Pos	Country		🥇 Gold	🥈 Silver	🥉 Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	URS	2	2	1	5
2	Poland	POL	2	0	1	3
3	France	FRA	1	1	2	4
4	Bulgaria	BUL	1	1	1	3
=	Romania	ROU	1	1	1	3
6	East Germany	GDR	1	0	1	2
7	Hungary	HUN	0	1	2	3
8	Czechoslovakia	TCH	0	1	1	2
9	Netherlands	NED	0	1	0	1
10	Germany	GER	0	0	3	3
11	Austria	AUT	0	0	1	1
=	Belgium	BEL	0	0	1	1
=	Spain	ESP	0	0	1	1

Medal winners

Event	🥇 Gold		🥈 Silver		🥉 Bronze
-60 kg, Men	Andrzej Dziemianiuk	POL	Arpad Szabo	ROU	Éric Maurel Pavel Petřikov	FRA TCH
-65 kg, Men	Constantin Niculae	ROU	Thierry Rey	FRA	Pepi Reiter Sergio Cardell	AUT ESP
-71 kg, Men	Karl-Heinz Lehmann	GDR	Sándor Nagysolymosi-1	HUN	Iliyan Nedkov Simion Toplicean	BUL ROU
-78 kg, Men	Georgi Petrov	BUL	Roman Novotný	TCH	Andrzej Sądej Shota Khabareli	POL URS
-86 kg, Men	David Bodaveli	URS	Bernard Tchoullouyan	URS	János Gyáni Wolfgang Frank	HUN GER
+95 kg, Men	Grigory Verichev	URS	Dimitar Zapryanov	BUL	Alexander von der Groeben Laurent del Colombo	GER FRA
-95 kg, Men	Roger Vachon	FRA	Tengiz Khubuluri	URS	Robert Van de Walle Ulf Rettig	BEL GDR
Open, Men	Wojciech Reszko	POL	Willy Wilhelm	NED	András Ozsvár Arthur Schnabel	HUN GER