1973 World Judo Championships

Judo
1973 Men's World Judo Championships
Judo 1973 Men's World Judo Championships
Venue	Palais de Beaulieu
Location	Lausanne, Switzerland
Dates	22–24 June 1973
Competitors	288 from 50 nations
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • JudoInside
	← Ludwigshafen 1971 Vienna 1975 →

The 1973 World Judo Championships were the 8th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Lausanne, Switzerland from June 22–24, 1973.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]

Medal overview

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-63 kg	Yoshiharu Minami	Takao Kawaguchi	Shengeli Pitskhelauri Hector Rodriguez
-70 kg	Toyokazu Nomura	Dietmar Hötger	Anatoliy Novikov Kazuo Yoshimura
-80 kg	Shozo Fujii	Isamu Sonoda	Bernd Look Antoni Reiner
-93 kg	Nobuyuki Sato	Takafumi Ueguchi	Dietmar Lorenz David Starbrook
+93 kg	Chonosuke Takagi	Dzhibilo Nizharadze	Sergei Novikov Keith Remfry
Open	Kazuhiro Ninomiya	Haruki Uemura	Klaus Glahn Wolfgang Zuckschwerdt


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	6	4	1	11
2	East Germany	0	1	3	4
2	Soviet Union	0	1	3	4
4	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
5	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	West Germany	0	0	1	1
Totals (7 entries)		6	6	12	24

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^ Plavecz, Thomas. "World Championships - Judoencyclopedia by Thomas Plavecz". Judoencyclopedia.jimdo.com. Retrieved 4 October 2013.
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