1972 European Judo Championships

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| year = 1972

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| location = {{flagicon|NED}} Voorburg, Netherlands

| dates = 12–14 May 1972

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The 1972 European Judo Championships were the 21st edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Voorburg, Netherlands from 12 to 14 May 1972. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.

Medal overview

=Individual=

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63 kg

|{{flagicon|FRA}}Jean-Jacques Mounier

|{{flagicon|URS}}Sergey Suslin

|{{flagicon|URS}}Sergey Melnichenko
{{flagicon|GDR}}Karl-Heinz Werner

70 kg

|{{flagicon|GDR}}Dietmar Hötger

|{{flagicon|URS}}Anatoly Novikov

|{{flagicon|POL}}Marian Talaj
{{flagicon|GER}}Albert Verhulsdonk

80 kg

|{{flagicon|FRA}}Jean-Paul Coche

|{{flagicon|URS}}Guram Gogolauri

|{{flagicon|HUN}}László Ipacs
{{flagicon|URS}}Andrey Tsyupachenko

93 kg

|{{flagicon|FRA}}Angelo Parisi

|{{flagicon|NED}}Jan Bosman

|{{flagicon|NED}}Ernst Eugster
{{flagicon|URS}}Evgeny Solodukhin

93+ kg

|{{flagicon|NED}}Willem Ruska

|{{flagicon|URS}}Givi Onashvili

|{{flagicon|URS}}Vitaly Kuznetsov
{{flagicon|ESP}}Santiago Ojeda

Open class

|{{flagicon|NED}}Willem Ruska

|{{flagicon|FRA}}Jean-Claude Brondani

|{{flagicon|GDR}}Klaus Hennig
{{flagicon|URS}}Sergey Novikov

=Teams=

=Medal table=

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| gold_FRA = 3 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 0

| gold_NED = 2 | silver_NED = 1 | bronze_NED = 1

| gold_DDR = 1 | silver_DDR = 0 | bronze_DDR = 2

| gold_URS = 0 | silver_URS = 4 | bronze_URS = 5

| gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 0 | bronze_POL = 1

| gold_ESP = 0 | silver_ESP = 0 | bronze_ESP = 1

| gold_FRG = 0 | silver_FRG = 0 | bronze_FRG = 1

| gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1

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