1973 World Judo Championships

The 1973 World Judo Championships were the 8th edition of the 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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