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The 1985 World Judo Championships were the 14th 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 Seoul

Seoul

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, South Korea

South Korea

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from September 26–29 1985.

Men

-60 kg	Shinji Hosokawa Shinji Hosokawa is a retired Japanese judoka who won two Olympic medals during the 1980s.-Biography:Hosokawa began judo in junior-high school, and won the Japanese inter-high school judo competition in 1977...	Peter Jupke	Tamas Bujko Tamás Bujkó Tamás Bujkó was a Hungarian judo competitor who competed at World Championship and Olympic levels.-Career:Bujkó competed at the 1983 World Judo Championships , the 1985 World Judo Championships , and the 1987 World Judo Championships... Khazret Tletseri
-65 kg	Yury Sokolov	Lee Kyung-Keun Lee Kyung-Keun Lee Kyung-Keun is a retired South Korean judoka.He was a runner-up in the half-lightweight division at the 1985 World Judo Championships....	Stefen Gawthorpe Yoshiyuki Matsuoka Yoshiyuki Matsuoka is a retired judoka from Japan, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. There he won the gold medal in the men's half-lightweight division , after having defeated South Korea's Hwang Jung-Oh in the final by Seoi Nage learned from Shozo Fujii, 4...
-71 kg	Ahn Byeong-Keun Ahn Byeong-Keun Ahn Byeong-keun is a retired judoka from South Korea, who represented his native country at the 1984 Summer Olympics. There he claimed the gold medal in the men's lightweight division by defeating Italy's Ezio Gamba in the final.-References:...	Michael Swain	Wieslaw Blach Steffen Stranz Steffen Stranz Steffen Stranz is a retired male judoka from Germany, who twice competed for West Germany at the Summer Olympics: 1984 and 1988....
-78 kg	Nobutoshi Hikage Nobutoshi Hikage is a Japanese judoka. He was two times world champion of Half-middleweight category.He is from Miyako, Iwate. He began judo at the age of a 6th grader. After graduation from Kokushikan University, He belonged to Iwate Prefectural Police....	Torsten Bréchôt Torsten Bréchôt Torsten Bréchôt is a retired male judoka from Germany, who competed for East Germany at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea...	Neil Adams Vladimir Chestakov
-86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher Peter Seisenbacher Peter Seisenbacher is one of the most successful judo practitioners and participants of the Olympic Games from Austria....	Georgi Petrov	Fabien Canu Vitali Pesniak
-95 kg	Hitoshi Sugai Hitoshi Sugai is a Japanese judoka.He started Judo at the age of 12.He won consecutively the 1985 World Judo Championships and 1987 World Judo Championships....	Ha Hyoung-Zoo Ha Hyoung-Zoo Ha Hyoung-Zoo also known by Ha Hyung-Joo, is a retired judoka from South Korea. In 1981, he became the first open division champion to represent South Korea at the Asian Judo Championships in Jakarta...	Gunther Neureuther Robert van de Walle Robert Van De Walle Robert Van de Walle is a Belgian judoka. He was the first judoka to ever compete at five Olympics.He was born in Ostend....
+95 kg	Cho Yong-Chul Cho Yong-Chul Cho Yong-Chul is a South Korean judoka.At the 1985 World Judo Championships in Seoul, Cho won a gold medal, beating two-time Olympic champion Hitoshi Saito by armlock submission in the final....	Hitoshi Saito Hitoshi Saito is a retired judoka who won two consecutive gold medals at the Olympic games.-Biography:Saito began judo in junior-high school, and in 1974, he was scouted to transfer to the Kokushikan junior-high school, located in Setagaya, Tokyo. He continued to practice judo at the Kokushikan high school, and...	Grigori Verichev Dimitar Zaprianov
Open	Yoshimi Masaki Yoshimi Masaki is a retired Japanese judoka who is currently a professor at Tenri University.-Biography:Masaki began judo during elementary school, and graduated from Tenri Highschool and Tenri University, where he was awarded as an outstanding competitor at the All-Japan Collegiate Judo Championships four times...	Mohamed Rashwan	Khabil Biktachev Willy Wilhelm

Medals table

1	Japan	4	1	1	6
2	South Korea	2	2	0	4
3	Soviet Union	1	0	5	6
4	Austria	1	0	0	1
5	Germany	0	1	2	3
6	Bulgaria	0	1	1	2
7	Egypt	0	1	0	1
	United States	0	1	0	1
	German Democratic Republic	0	1	0	1
10	United Kingdom	0	0	2	2
11	Poland	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Belgium	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1

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