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1971 Men's World Judo Championships
Venue	Friedrich-Ebert-Halle
Location	Ludwigshafen, West Germany
Dates	2–4 September 1971
Competitors	310 from 52 nations
Competition at external databases
Links	IJF • JudoInside
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The 1971 World Judo Championships were the 7th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held at the Friedrich-Ebert-Halle in Ludwigshafen, West Germany from 2–4 September, 1971.^[1]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-63 kg	Takao Kawaguchi	Toyokazu Nomura	Choi Jong-Sam Sergey Suslin
-70 kg	Hideki Tsuzawa	Hiroshi Minatoya	Dietmar Hötger Antoni Zajkowski
-80 kg	Shozo Fujii	Yoshinari Shigematsu	Guy Auffray David Starbrook
-93 kg	Fumio Sasahara	Nobuyuki Sato	Helmut Howiller Chiaki Ishii
+93 kg	Wim Ruska	Klaus Glahn	Hisakazu Iwata Keith Remfry
Open	Masatoshi Shinomaki	Vitali Kusnetzov	Klaus Glahn Shinobu Sekine

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	5	4	2	11
2	Netherlands	1	0	0	1
3	Soviet Union	0	1	1	2
	West Germany	0	1	1	2
5	East Germany	0	0	2	2
	Great Britain	0	0	2	2
7	Brazil	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (10 entries)		6	6	12	24

• 1971 World Judo Championships at the International Judo Federation
• 1971 World Judo Championships at JudoInside.com