The Judo competition in the 1985 Summer Universiade were held in Kobe, Japan.
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| Extra-lightweight (60 kg) |
Pak (PRK) | Koji Ono (JPN) | Pavel Botev (BUL) |
| Gheorghe Dani (ROU) | |||
| Half-lightweight (65 kg) |
Yoon Yong-Bal (KOR) | Joe Marchal (USA) | Makoto Sakashita (JPN) |
| Cornel-Ilie Serban (ROU) | |||
| Lightweight (71 kg) |
Yukiharu Yoshitaka (JPN) | Mario (BRA) | Georgi Tenadze (URS) |
| Michael Swain (USA) | |||
| Half-middleweight (78 kg) |
Cho (KOR) | Glenn Beauchamp (CAN) | Lo (PRK) |
| Sandor Nagysolymosi (HUN) | |||
| Middleweight (86 kg) |
Viktor Poddubny (URS) | Jose Gonzalez (CUB) | Michael Bazynski (GER) |
| Lee (PRK) | |||
| Half-heavyweight (95 kg) |
Ha Hyoung-Zoo (KOR) | Aurélio Miguel (BRA) | Yoshio Haga (JPN) |
| Koba Kurtanidze (URS) | |||
| Heavyweight (+95 kg) |
Hwang Jae-Gil (PRK) | Mihail Cioc (ROU) | Naoki Takiyoshi (JPN) |
| Khabil Biktachev (URS) | |||
| Openweight |
Yoshimi Masaki (JPN) | Xu Guoging (CHN) | Aurélio Miguel (BRA) |
| Jochen Plate (GER) | |||
| Team |
Japan | France | Poland |
| Soviet Union |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | South Korea | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2 | Japan | 2 | 1 | 3 | 6 |
| 3 | North Korea | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Soviet Union | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 5 | Brazil | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Romania | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 7 | United States | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
| 8 | Canada | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Cuba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| China | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
| 11 | Germany | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Bulgaria | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Hungary | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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