1987 World Judo Championships

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] [4]}

Medal overview

Men

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

Women

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 Boguslawa Olechnowisz
-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

Medals table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	3	5	12
2	China	3	0	1	4
3	France	2	2	3	7
4	Great Britain	2	1	3	6
5	Soviet Union	1	2	0	3
6	Germany	1	1	4	6
7	United States	1	1	2	4
	Netherlands	1	1	2	4
9	South Korea	1	0	2	3
10	Belgium	0	2	0	2
11	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Australia	0	1	0	1
	Egypt	0	1	0	1
14	Poland	0	0	3	3
15	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Austria	0	0	1	1
	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	Cuba	0	0	1	1
	East Germany	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Chinese Taipei	0	0	1	1

References

External links

• Results of the World Championships Essen, 1987, West Germany on www.judoinside.com
• Videos of fights found by de.video.search.yahoo.com