1972 European Judo Championships

1972 European Judo Championships
Location Voorburg, Netherlands
Dates12–14 May 1972
Competition at external databases
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The 1972 European Judo Championships were the 21st edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Voorburg, Netherlands from 12 to 14 May 1972. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.

Medal overview

Individual

Event Gold Silver Bronze
63 kg Jean-Jacques Mounier Sergey Suslin Sergey Melnichenko
Karl-Heinz Werner
70 kg Dietmar Hötger Anatoly Novikov Marian Talaj
Albert Verhulsdonk
80 kg Jean-Paul Coche Guram Gogolauri László Ipacs
Andrey Tsyupachenko
93 kg Angelo Parisi Jan Bosman Ernst Eugster
Evgeny Solodukhin
93+ kg Willem Ruska Givi Onashvili Vitaly Kuznetsov
Santiago Ojeda
Open class Willem Ruska Jean-Claude Brondani Klaus Hennig
Sergey Novikov

Teams

Event Gold Silver Bronze
Team  Soviet team:

Sergey Melnichenko
Anatoly Novikov
Sergey Suslin
Guram Gogolauri
Evgeny Solodukhin
Vitali Kuznetsov

 French team:

Jean-Jacques Mounier
Patrick Vial
Guy Auffray
Jean-Luc Rougé
François Besson

 Dutch team:

Jan Gietelinck
Theo Schneider
Martin Poglajen
Ernst Eugster
Willem Ruska
Leo Heynen


 British team:
Edward Mullen
John Sullivan
Brian Jacks
David Starbrook
Keith Remfry

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 France3104
2 Netherlands2114
3 East Germany1023
4 Soviet Union0459
5 Hungary0011
 Poland0011
 Spain0011
 West Germany0011
Totals (8 entries)661224