1981 World Judo Championships

The 1981 World Judo Championships were the 12th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Maastricht, Netherlands from 3–6 September, 1981.

Judo 1981 Men's World Judo Championships
Venue	Maastricht
Location	Maastricht, Netherlands
Dates	3–6 September 1981
Competitors	255 from 51 nations
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • JudoInside
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Medal overview

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-60 kg	Yasuhiko Moriwaki	Pavel Petřikov	Felice Mariani Phil Takahashi
-65 kg	Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki	Constantin Niculae	Hwang Jung-Oh Petr Ponomarev
-71 kg	Park Chong-hak	Serge Dyot	Karl-Heinz Lehmann Vojo Vujevic
-78 kg	Neil Adams	Jiro Kase	Kevin Doherty Georgi Petrov
-86 kg	Bernard Tchoullouyan	Seiki Nose	David Bodaveli Detlef Ultsch
-95 kg	Tengiz Khubuluri	Robert van de Walle	Ha Hyung-Joo Roger Vachon
+95 kg	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Grigory Verichev	Vladimir Kocman Juha Salonen
Open	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Wojciech Reszko	Andras Ozsvar Robert van de Walle

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	2	0	6
2	Soviet Union (URS)	1	1	2	4
3	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
4	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	2	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	0	1
6	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
	Czechoslovakia (TCH)	0	1	1	2
8	Poland (POL)	0	1	0	1
	Romania (ROM)	0	1	0	1
10	Canada (CAN)	0	0	2	2
	East Germany (GDR)	0	0	2	2
12	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Italy (ITA)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia (SFR Yugoslavia)	0	0	1	1
Totals (16 entries)		8	8	16	32