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{{short description|Judo competition}}
{{Unreferenced|date=May 2013}}
{{Infobox judo competition event
|competition    = 1981 Men's [[World Judo Championships]]
|image          = 
|dates          = 3–6 September 1981
|venue          = 
|location       = {{flagicon|NED}} [[Maastricht]], [[Netherlands]]
}}

The '''1981 [[World Judo Championships]]''' were the 12th edition of the Men's [[World Judo Championships]], and were held in [[Maastricht]], [[Netherlands]] from 3–6 September, 1981.

==Medal overview==
===Men===
{| {{MedalistTable|type=Event}}
|-
|<nowiki>-60 kg</nowiki>
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yasuhiko Moriwaki]]
|{{flagicon|TCH}} [[Pavel Petřikov (Czech judoka born 1959)|Pavel Petřikov]]
|{{flagicon|ITA}} [[Felice Mariani (judoka)|Felice Mariani]] <br> {{flagicon|CAN}} [[Phil Takahashi]]
|-
|<nowiki>-65 kg</nowiki>
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Katsuhiko Kashiwazaki]]
|{{flagicon|ROM}} [[Constantin Niculae]]
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Hwang Jung-Oh]] <br> {{flagicon|URS}} [[Petr Ponomarev]]
|-
|<nowiki>-71 kg</nowiki>
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Park Chong-hak]]
|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Serge Dyot]]
|{{flagicon|GDR}} [[Karl-Heinz Lehmann]] <br> {{flagicon|SFR Yugoslavia}} [[Vojo Vujevic]]
|-
|<nowiki>-78 kg</nowiki>
|{{flagicon|GBR}} [[Neil Adams (judoka)|Neil Adams]]
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Jiro Kase]]
|{{flagicon|CAN}} [[Kevin Doherty (judoka)|Kevin Doherty]] <br> {{flagicon|BUL}} [[Georgi Petrov (judoka)|Georgi Petrov]]
|-
|<nowiki>-86 kg</nowiki>
|{{flagicon|FRA}} [[Bernard Tchoullouyan]]
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Seiki Nose]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} [[David Bodaveli]] <br> {{flagicon|GDR}} [[Detlef Ultsch]]
|-
|<nowiki>-95 kg</nowiki>
|{{flagicon|URS}} [[Tengiz Khubuluri]]
|{{flagicon|BEL}} [[Robert van de Walle]]
|{{flagicon|KOR}} [[Ha Hyung-Joo]] <br> {{flagicon|FRA}} [[Roger Vachon]]
|-
|<nowiki>+95 kg</nowiki>
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yasuhiro Yamashita]]
|{{flagicon|URS}} [[Grigory Verichev]]
|{{flagicon|TCH}} [[Vladimir Kocman]] <br> {{flagicon|FIN}} [[Juha Salonen]]
|-
|Open
|{{flagicon|JPN}} [[Yasuhiro Yamashita]]
|{{flagicon|POL}} [[Wojciech Reszko]]
|{{flagicon|HUN}} [[Andras Ozsvar]] <br> {{flagicon|BEL}} [[Robert van de Walle]]
|}

=== Medal table ===
{{Medals table
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 | team           = 
 | gold_JPN = 4 | silver_JPN = 2 | bronze_JPN = 0
 | gold_URS = 1 | silver_URS = 1 | bronze_URS = 2
 | gold_FRA = 1 | silver_FRA = 1 | bronze_FRA = 1
 | gold_KOR = 1 | silver_KOR = 0 | bronze_KOR = 2
 | gold_GBR = 1 | silver_GBR = 0 | bronze_GBR = 0
 | gold_BEL = 0 | silver_BEL = 1 | bronze_BEL = 1
 | gold_TCH = 0 | silver_TCH = 1 | bronze_TCH = 1
 | gold_POL = 0 | silver_POL = 1 | bronze_POL = 0
 | gold_ROM = 0 | silver_ROM = 1 | bronze_ROM = 0
 | gold_CAN = 0 | silver_CAN = 0 | bronze_CAN = 2
 | gold_GDR = 0 | silver_GDR = 0 | bronze_GDR = 2
 | gold_BUL = 0 | silver_BUL = 0 | bronze_BUL = 1
 | gold_FIN = 0 | silver_FIN = 0 | bronze_FIN = 1
 | gold_HUN = 0 | silver_HUN = 0 | bronze_HUN = 1
 | gold_ITA = 0 | silver_ITA = 0 | bronze_ITA = 1
 | gold_SFR = 0 | silver_SFR = 0 | bronze_SFR = 1 | name_SFR = {{flagteam|SFR Yugoslavia}}
}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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