1968 European Judo Championships

1968 Judo European Judo Championships
Location	Lausanne, Switzerland
Dates	17–19 May 1968
Competition at external databases
Links	JudoInside
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The 1968 European Judo Championships were the 17th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Lausanne, Switzerland from 17 to 19 May 1968. ^[1] Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.

Medal overview

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
63 kg	Piruz Martkoplishvili	Sergey Suslin	Serge Feist Denis Pylypiw
70 kg	Roin Magaltadze	Otari Natelashvili	Czeslaw Kur Allan Wood
80 kg	Wolfgang Hofmann	Ahmed Khan	Horst Leupold Ferdi Miebach
93 kg	Peter Herrmann	Helmut Howiller	Ernst Eugster Paul Barth
93+ kg	Klaus Glahn	Anzor Kiknadze	Alfred Meier Erich Butka
Open class	Vladimir Saunin	Radovan Krajinovic	Guenther Monczyk Klaus Hennig

Teams

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	French team: Serge Feist Pierre Guichard Patrick Clément Jean-Paul Coche Jean-Claude Brondani	Soviet team: Sergey Suslin Otari Natelashvili Aleksandr Suklin Vladimir Pokatayev Anzor Kibrotsashvili	West German team: Harry Utzat Gerd Egger Wolfgang Hofmann Peter Herrmann Klaus Glahn  Dutch team: Jan Gietelinck Tony Jonkman Jan Snijders Ernst Eugster Peter Snijders

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union  (URS)	3	3	0	6
2	West Germany  (FRG)	3	0	3	6
3	East Germany  (DDR)	0	1	3	4
4	France  (FRA)	0	1	2	3
5	Yugoslavia  (YUG)	0	1	0	1
6	Austria  (AUT)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain  (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands  (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland  (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	12	24

Notes

1. Modric, Zarko (1 October 1968). "Winners Of European Judo Championships: the Referees". Black Belt . Active Interest Media, Inc. p. 26. Retrieved 14 January 2018– via Google Books.

References

• Results of the 1968 European Judo Championships (JudoInside.com)