1973 World Judo Championships

The 1973 World Judo Championships were the 8th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Lausanne, Switzerland from June 22–24, 1973.

Medal overview

Men

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-63 kg	Template:Flagicon Yoshiharu Minami	Template:Flagicon Takao Kawaguchi	Template:Flagicon Shengeli Pitskhelauri Template:Flagicon Hector Rodriguez
-70 kg	Template:Flagicon Toyokazu Nomura	Template:Flagicon Dietmar Hötger	Template:Flagicon Anatoliy Novikov Template:Flagicon Kazuo Yoshimura
-80 kg	Template:Flagicon Shozo Fujii	Template:Flagicon Isamu Sonoda	Template:Flagicon Bernd Look Template:Flagicon Antoni Reiner
-93 kg	Template:Flagicon Nobuyuki Sato	Template:Flagicon Takafumi Ueguchi	Template:Flagicon Dietmar Lorenz Template:Flagicon David Starbrook
+93 kg	Template:Flagicon Chonosuke Takagi	Template:Flagicon Dzhibilo Nizharadze	Template:Flagicon Sergei Novikov Template:Flagicon Keith Remfry
Open	Template:Flagicon Kazuhiro Ninomiya	Template:Flagicon Haruki Uemura	Template:Flagicon Klaus Glahn Template:Flagicon Wolfgang Zuckschwerdt