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|---|---|
| Venue | Pionir Hall |
| Location |  Belgrade, Yugoslavia |
| Dates | 25–28 July 1989 |
| Competitors | 355 from 63 nations |
| Competition at external databases | |
| Links | IJF • JudoInside |
The 1989 World Judo Championships were the 16th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in the Pionir Hall in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) from October 10–15, 1989. [1] [2] [3] [4]
| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
|---|---|---|---|
| -60 kg |  Amiran Totikashvili |  Tadanori Koshino |  Dashgombyn Battulga  Yoon Hyun |
| -65 kg | Dragomir Bečanović |  Udo Quellmalz |  Bruno Carabetta Sergei Kosmynin |
| -71 kg | Toshihiko Koga |  Mike Swain |  Li Chang-Su Georgy Tenadze |
| -78 kg | Kim Byung-Joo | Tatsuto Mochida |  Waldemar Legień Bashir Varaev |
| -86 kg | Fabien Canu |  Ben Spijkers |  Stefan Freudenberg Axel Lobenstein |
| -95 kg | Koba Kurtanidze | Odvogiin Baljinnyam | Marc Meiling  Robert van de Walle |
| +95 kg | Naoya Ogawa |  Frank Moreno | Rafał Kubacki Grigory Verichev |
| Open | Naoya Ogawa | Akaki Kibordzalidze | Kim Kun-Soo Alexander von der Groeben |
| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 3 | 5 | 2 | 10 |
| 2 | France (FRA) | 3 | 0 | 5 | 8 |
| 3 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| 4 |  Great Britain (GBR) | 2 | 2 | 0 | 4 |
| 5 | Cuba (CUB) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 6 |  Italy (ITA) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 7 | South Korea (KOR) | 1 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
| 8 |  China (CHN) | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Belgium (BEL) | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 10 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 11 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| 12 | East Germany (GDR) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Mongolia (MGL) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 15 | United States (USA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 16 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 17 | North Korea (PRK) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
 Spain (ESP) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
| Totals (18 entries) | 16 | 16 | 32 | 64 | |
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