1987 World Judo Championships

Judo
1987 World Judo Championships
Judo 1987 World Judo Championships
Venue	Grugahalle
Location	Essen, West Germany
Dates	19–22 November 1987
Competitors	456 from 63 nations
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • JudoInside
	← 1986 (Women's only); ← 1985 Men's only) 1989 (Men & Women) →

The 1987 World Judo Championships were the 15th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in Essen, West Germany from November 19–22, 1987.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Medal overview

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-60 kg	Kim Jae-Yup	Shinji Hosokawa	Kevin Asano Patrick Roux
-65 kg	Yosuke Yamamoto	Yury Sokolov	Tamas Bujko Janusz Pawłowski
-71 kg	Mike Swain	Marc Alexandre	Kerrith Brown Toshihiko Koga
-78 kg	Hirotaka Okada	Bashir Varaev	Lee Koai-Hwa Waldemar Legień
-86 kg	Fabien Canu	Pak Jong-Chol	Masao Murata Densign White
-95 kg	Hitoshi Sugai	Theo Meijer	Ha Hyung-Joo Aurélio Miguel
+95 kg	Grigory Verichev	Mohamed Rashwan	Jochen Plate Xu Guoqing
Open	Naoya Ogawa	Elvis Gordon	Jorge Fis Castro Henry Stohr

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-48 kg	Li Zhongyun	Fumiko Ezaki	Chou Yu-Ping Jessica Gal
-52 kg	Sharon Rendle	Kaori Yamaguchi	Dominique Brun Alessandra Giungi
-56 kg	Catherine Arnaud	Suzanne Williams	Ann Hughes Regina Philips
-61 kg	Diane Bell	Lynn Roethke	Noriko Mochida Bogusława Olechnowicz
-66 kg	Alexandra Schreiber	Brigitte Deydier	Roswitha Hartl Hikari Sasaki
-72 kg	Irene de Kok	Ingrid Berghmans	Barbara Claßen Yoko Tanabe
+72 kg	Gao Fenglian	Regina Sigmund	Margaret Castro Angelique Seriese
Open	Gao Fenglian	Ingrid Berghmans	Karin Kutz Isabelle Paque


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	3	5	12
2	China (CHN)	3	0	1	4
3	France (FRA)	2	2	3	7
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	1	3	6
5	Soviet Union (URS)	1	2	0	3
6	Germany (GER)	1	1	4	6
7	Netherlands (NED)	1	1	2	4
7	United States (USA)	1	1	2	4
9	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	2	3
10	Belgium (BEL)	0	2	0	2
11	Australia (AUS)	0	1	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	North Korea (PRK)	0	1	0	1
14	Poland (POL)	0	0	3	3
15	Austria (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei (TPE)	0	0	1	1
	Cuba (CUB)	0	0	1	1
	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
Totals (21 entries)		16	16	32	64

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