The 1973 European Judo Championships were the 22nd edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Madrid, Spain on 13 May 1973. Championships were subdivided into six individual competitions, and a separate team competition.

Medal overview

Individual

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
63 kg	Sergey Melnichenko	Shengeli Pitskhelauri	Michel Algisi Karl-Heinz Werner
70 kg	Dietmar Hoetger	Engelbert Dörbandt	Franco Novasconi Vacinuff Morrison
80 kg	Brian Jacks	Guy Auffray	Bernd Look Guram Gogolauri
93 kg	Jean-Luc Rougé	David Starbrook	Evgeny Solodukhin Amiran Muzaev
93+ kg	Santiago Ojeda	Keith Remfry	Peter Adelaar Dzhibilo Nizharadze
Open class	Sergey Novikov	Shota Chochishvili	Dietmar Lorenz Wolfgang Zueckschwerdt

Teams

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Team	Soviet team: Shengeli Pitskhelauri Vladimir Nevzorov Guram Gogolauri Evgeny Solodukhin Anatoliy Novikov Sergey Novikov	French team: Jean-Jacques Mounier Gérard Gautier Guy Auffray Jean-Luc Rougé Jean-Pierre Tripet François Besson	British team: Constantine Alexander Vas Morrison Brian Jacks John Hindley David Starbrook Angelo Parisi  West German team: Rainer Rutter Engelbert Dörbandt Fred Marhenke Paul Barth Klaus Glahn Kurt Pilger

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union	2	2	4	8
2	Great Britain	1	2	1	4
3	France	1	1	1	3
4	East Germany	1	0	4	5
5	Spain	1	0	0	1
6	West Germany	0	1	0	1
7	Italy	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
Totals (8 entries)		6	6	12	24

External links

• Results of the 1973 European Judo Championships (JudoInside.com)