1973 Lausanne Worlds

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Gold: Nobuyuki Sato (JPN), Silver; Takafumi Ueguchi JPN, Bronze; David Starbrook GBR and Dietmar Lorenz DDR	Gold: Nobuyuki Sato (JPN), Silver; Takafumi Ueguchi JPN, Bronze; David Starbrook GBR and Dietmar Lorenz DDR	Ueguchi JPN turns Starbrook GBR onto his back during the semi-final.
Sato v Ueguchi	Nomura JPN throws Yoshimura JPN for ippon	Shinomaki JPN against Besson FRA
Shinomaki JPN is injured during his contest with Francois Besson FRA.	Chiaki Ishii BRA attacks Jean-Luc Rouge FRA in the light heavyweight division where he advanced to meet the eventual champion Nobuyuki Sato, losing and not breaking through the repercharge. At the next Worlds Rouge won the 93kgs title.	Ramaz Nijeradze URS fiercely attacks Chonosuke Takagi JPN defeating him in the quarter final but because of the repercharge system in use at the time, Takagi was able to reach the final and this time beat the Soviet fighter.
Takagi JPN attacks Nidjeradze URS in the over 93 kgs final	GOLD: Chonsuke Takagi JPN, SILVER: Ramaz Nichiradze URS, BRONZE: Keith Remfry GBR and Sergei Novikov URS	Dietmar Hoetger DDR beat Kazuro Yoshimura JPN to reach the 70 kgs semi-final. against Novikov of the Soviet Union.
Nomura JPN throws Yoshimura JPN for ippon to reach the 70 kgs final.	Dietmar Hoetger DDR, silver medallist and Toyokazu Nomura JPN, gold medallist.	Takao Kawaguchi JPN throws Gueorgiu Guerguiev BUL for ippon with tomoenage
Ninomiya JPN throws Glahn GER within 9 seconds of taking a grip.	Uemura attacks James Woolley USA	Minami waits his turn alongside Toshiro Daigo
Minami JPN throws Pitskelauri URS at the lightweight quarter-final.	Toshiro Daigo (right) and 1964 middleweight Olympic champion Isao Okano watch Minami win gold	Former European heavyweight champion, Klaus Glahn GER gives Haruki Uemura JPN a hard time during their openweight semi final won by Uemura
G: Ninomiya, S: Uemura, B: Zuckschwerdt DDR & Glahn FRG	Glahn FRG and Ninomiya JPN	Klaus Glahn (left) - Bronze (FRG), Kasuhiro Ninomiya - Gold (JPN) and Wolfgang Zuckschwerdt - Bronze (DDR)
Ninomiya and Zuchschwerdt	The Japanese gold medallists follow Isao Okano and Toshiro Daigo across the mat.	GOLD MEDALLISTS Back row: Ninomiya (Open), Tagaki (+93 kgs), Sato (93 kgs) Front row: Nomura (70 kgs), Minami (63 kgs), Fujii (80 kgs)
Shinomaki JPN against Francois Besson FRA	Takagi, Sato and Fuji	1973 Japanese team manager Okano was ignominiously sacked for appearing on a 1974 magazine cover wearing a coloured judogi along with Anton Geesink