The 1979 World Judo Championships were the 10th edition of the Men's World Judo Championships, and were held in Paris, France from 6–9 December, 1979. The last tournament in 1977 had been cancelled.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-60 kg	Thierry Rey	Gwak U-jong	Felice Mariani Yasuhiko Moriwaki
-65 kg	Nikolai Solodukhin	Yves Delvingt	Janusz Pawłowski Kyosuke Sahara
-71 kg	Kiyoto Katsuki	Ezio Gamba	Neil Adams Tamaz Namgalauri
-78 kg	Shozo Fujii	Bernard Tchoullouyan	Harald Heinke Park Young-Chul
-86 kg	Detlef Ultsch	Michel Sanchis	Walter Carmona Masao Takahashi
-95 kg	Tengiz Khubuluri	Robert van de Walle	Gunther Neureuther Henk Numan
+95 kg	Yasuhiro Yamashita	Jean-Luc Rougé	Cho Jae-Ki Imre Varga
Open	Sumio Endo	Vitali Kuznetsov	Radomir Kovacevic Jean-Luc Rougé

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	0	3	7
2	Soviet Union (URS)	2	1	1	4
3	France (FRA)	1	4	1	6
4	East Germany (GDR)	1	0	1	2
5	South Korea (KOR)	0	1	2	3
6	Italy (ITA)	0	1	1	2
7	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	0	1
8	Brazil (BRA)	0	0	1	1
	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
	West Germany (FRG)	0	0	1	1
	Yugoslavia	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		8	8	16	32

• 1979 World Judo Championships at the International Judo Federation
• 1979 World Judo Championships at JudoInside.com
• videos found on de.video.search.yahoo.com retrieved December 10, 2013