1979 Men's World Judo Championships
Venue	Stade Pierre de Coubertin
Location	Paris, France
Dates	6–9 December 1979
Competitors	273 from 54 nations
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • JudoInside
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The 1979 World Judo Championships were the 10th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Paris, France from 6–9 December, 1979. The last tournament in 1977 had been cancelled.

Medal overview

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-60 kg	Thierry Rey	Gwak U-jong	Felice Mariani Yasuhiko Moriwaki
-65 kg	Nikolai Solodukhin	Yves Delvingt	Janusz Pawłowski Kyosuke Sahara
-71 kg	Kiyoto Katsuki	Ezio Gamba	Neil Adams Tamaz Namgalauri
-78 kg	Shozo Fujii	Bernard Tchoullouyan	Harald Heinke Park Young-Chul
-86 kg	Detlef Ultsch	Michel Sanchis	Walter Carmona Masao Takahashi
-95 kg	Tengiz Khubuluri	Robert van de Walle	Gunther Neureuther Henk Numan
+95 kg	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Jean-Luc Rougé	Cho Jae-Ki Imre Varga
Open	Sumio Endo	Vitali Kuznetsov	Radomir Kovacevic Jean-Luc Rougé

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	0	3	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
4	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	1	2
5	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	2	3
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
8	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		8	8	16	32