1972 Judo medal counts

                                    Total    Gold   Silver  Bronze
Japan                                  4       3       0       1
Soviet Union                           4       1       1       2
United Kingdom (Great Britain)         3       0       1       2
France                                 3       0       0       3
Netherlands                            2       2       0       0
West Germany                           2       0       1       1
Poland                                 1       0       1       0
South Korea                            1       0       1       0
Brazil                                 1       0       0       1
East Germany                           1       0       0       1
North Korea (PDR of Korea)             1       0       0       1

Medal winners:
      Event                     Gold                     Silver                  Bronze                  
1972  Men's Lightweight         Takao Kawaguchi    JPN                           Yong Ik Kim          PRK
                                                                                 Jean-Jacques Monuier FRA
1972  Men's Half Middleweight   Toyokazu Nomura    JPN   Anton Zajkowski   POL   Anatoli Novikov      URS
                                                                                 Dietmar Hottger      GDR
1972  Men's Middleweight        Shinobu Sekine     JPN   Seung-Lip Oh      KOR   Brian Jacks          GBR
                                                                                 Jean-Paul Coche      FRA
1972  Men's Half Heavyweight    Shota Chochoshvili URS   David Starbrook   GBR   Paul Barth           FRG
                                                                                 Chiaki Ishii         BRA
1972  Men's Heavyweight         Wim Ruska          NED   Klaus Glahn       FRG   Givi Onashvili       URS
                                                                                 Motoki Nishimura     JPN
1972  Men's Open                Wim Ruska          NED   Vitaliy Kuznetsov URS   Jean-Claude Brondan  FRA
                                                                                 Angelo Parisi        GBR