1983 World Judo Championships
# 1983 World Judo Championships

The 1983 World Judo Championships were the 13th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Moscow, Soviet Union from October 13–16, 1983.

## Medal overview

### Men

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| - | - | - | - |
| -60 kg | Khazret Tletseri | Tamas Bujko | Kenichi Haraguchi Klaus-Peter Stolberg |
| -65 kg | Nikolai Solodukhin | Yoshiyuki Matsuoka | Janusz Pawłowski Sandro Rosati |
| -71 kg | Hidetoshi Nakanishi | Ezio Gamba | Tamaz Namgalauri Steffen Stranz |
| -78 kg | Nobutoshi Hikage | Neil Adams | Mircea Fratica Shota Khabarelli |
| -86 kg | Detlef Ultsch | Fabien Canu | Robert Berland Seiki Nose |
| -95 kg | Andreas Preschel | Valeri Divisenko | Gunther Neureuther Robert van de Walle |
| +95 kg | Yasuhiro Yamashita | Willy Wilhelm | Mihail Cioc Henry Stohr |
| Open | Hitoshi Saito | Vladimir Kocman | Andras Ozsvar Robert van de Walle |

### Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1 | Japan (JPN) | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| 2 | Soviet Union (URS) | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 3 | East Germany (GDR) | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 4 | Hungary (HUN) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 4 | Italy (ITA) | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 6 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | France (FRA) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Great Britain (GBR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 6 | Netherlands (NED) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Belgium (BEL) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | Romania (ROM) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 10 | West Germany (FRG) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 13 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | United States (USA) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (14 entries) | Totals (14 entries) | 8 | 8 | 16 | 32 |
