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The 1971 World Judo Championships were the 7th edition of the World Judo Championships

World Judo Championships

The World Judo Championships are the highest level of international judo competition, along with the Olympic judo competition. The championships are held once every year by the International Judo Federation, and qualified judoka compete in their respective categories as representatives of their...

, and were held in Ludwigshafen, West Germany

West Germany

West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....

from September 2–4 1971.

Men

-63 kg	Takao Kawaguchi Takao Kawaguchi is a retired judoka who competed in the -63 kg division.-Biography:Kawaguchi began judo at age 5 under the instruction of his father, who was a local judo instructor. He won the inter-highschool judo tournament in his senior year in high school, and entered Meiji University in 1969...	Toyokazu Nomura Toyokazu Nomura is a retired judoka who competed in the half middleweight division.-Biography:Nomura was born into a family of judoka. His father was the founder of a local judo dojo, and his brother was also an instructor who taught Olympic gold medalist Shinji Hosokawa. His nephew, Tadahiro Nomura, is the only...	Choi Jong-Sam Sergei Susulin
-70 kg	Hideki Tsuzawa	Hiroshi Minatoya Hiroshi Minatoya is a retired Japanese judoka.He was born in Fukuno, Toyama and began judo at the age of 5.After graduating from Tenri University, Minatoya coached judo at the dojo wichi Anton Geesink managed in Netherlands....	Dietmar Hoetger Antoni Zajkowski
-80 kg	Shozo Fujii Shōzō Fujii is a Japanese judoka. He won a gold medal 4 times at the World Championships.He is from Higashikagawa, Kagawa. After graduation from Tenri University in 1973, he belonged to Kuraray...	Yoshinari Shigematsu	Guy Auffray David Starbrook David Starbrook David Colin Starbrook is a retired British judoka.He won a silver medal in the 1972 Olympics, and bronze in the 1976 Olympics - both in the half-heavyweight division....
-93 kg	Fumio Sasahara	Nobuyuki Sato	Helmut Howiller Chiaki Ishii Chiaki Ishii is a Japanese judoka competing for Brazil and Olympic medalist. He won a bronze medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich.-References:...
+93 kg	Wim Ruska Wim Ruska Willem Ruska is a retired judoka from the Netherlands.During his career in the 1960s and 1970s he won seven European titles, five in the +93kg category and two in the open category . He furthermore won two world titles and two Olympic titles...	Klaus Glahn Klaus Glahn Klaus Glahn is a former West German judoka who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.In 1964 he won the bronze medal in the open class while representing the United Team of Germany....	Hisakazu Iwata Keith Remfry Keith Remfry Keith Remfry is a former judoka from the United Kingdom, who won the silver medal in the Open Class at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal. He lost to Japan's Haruki Uemura in the final of the Olympic tournament in Canada....
Open	Masatoshi Shinomaki	Vitali Kusnetzov	Klaus Glahn Klaus Glahn Klaus Glahn is a former West German judoka who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics and in the 1972 Summer Olympics.In 1964 he won the bronze medal in the open class while representing the United Team of Germany.... Shinobu Sekine Shinobu Sekine is a retired judoka.-Biography:Sekine was born in Ōarai, Ibaraki, and entered the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department after graduating from Chuo University. He sought a spot on the Olympic judo team after seeing Isao Okano, a rival judoka also from Ibaraki Prefecture, win gold at the 1964 Summer...

Medals table

1	Japan	5	4	2	11
2	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
3	Germany	0	1	1	2
3	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
5	German Democratic Republic	0	0	2	2
5	United Kingdom	0	0	2	2
7	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1

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