The 1989 World Judo Championships were the 16th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in the Pionir Hall in Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) from October 10–15, 1989.^[1][2][3][4]

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-60 kg	Amiran Totikashvili	Tadanori Koshino	Dashgombyn Battulga Yoon Hyun
-65 kg	Dragomir Bečanović	Udo Quellmalz	Bruno Carabetta Sergei Kosmynin
-71 kg	Toshihiko Koga	Mike Swain	Li Chang-Su Georgy Tenadze
-78 kg	Kim Byung-joo	Tatsuto Mochida	Waldemar Legień Bashir Varaev
-86 kg	Fabien Canu	Ben Spijkers	Stefan Freudenberg Axel Lobenstein
-95 kg	Koba Kurtanidze	Odvogiin Baljinnyam	Marc Meiling Robert van de Walle
+95 kg	Naoya Ogawa	Frank Moreno	Rafał Kubacki Grigory Verichev
Open	Naoya Ogawa	Akaki Kibordzalidze	Kim Kun-Soo Alexander von der Groeben

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-48 kg	Karen Briggs	Fumiko Ezaki	Jessica Gal Cécile Nowak
-52 kg	Sharon Rendle	Alessandra Giungi	Cho Min-Sun Maritza Pérez Cárdenas
-56 kg	Catherine Arnaud	Ann Hughes	Miriam Blasco Jung Sun-Yong
-61 kg	Catherine Fleury	Yelena Petrova	Takako Kobayashi Gabriele Ritschel
-66 kg	Emanuela Pierantozzi	Hikari Sasaki	Claire Lecat Odalis Revé
-72 kg	Ingrid Berghmans	Yoko Tanabe	Aline Batailler Wu Weifeng
+72 kg	Gao Fenglian	Regina Sigmund	Nathalie Lupino Beata Maksymow
Open	Estela Rodriguez Villanueva	Sharon Lee	Yoko Tanabe Zhang Ying

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	3	5	2	10
2	France (FRA)	3	0	5	8
3	Soviet Union (URS)	2	2	4	8
4	Great Britain (GBR)	2	2	0	4
5	Cuba (CUB)	1	1	2	4
6	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
7	South Korea (KOR)	1	0	4	5
8	China (CHN)	1	0	2	3
9	Belgium (BEL)	1	0	1	2
10	Yugoslavia (YUG)	1	0	0	1
11	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	4	5
12	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	1	2
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	1	1	2
	Netherlands (NED)	0	1	1	2
15	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
16	Poland (POL)	0	0	3	3
17	North Korea (PRK)	0	0	1	1
	Spain (ESP)	0	0	1	1
Totals (18 entries)		16	16	32	64