The 1985 World Judo Championships were the 14th edition of the World Judo Championships, and were held in Seoul, South Korea from September 26–29, 1985.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
-60 kg	Shinji Hosokawa	Peter Jupke	Tamas Bujko Khazret Tletseri
-65 kg	Yury Sokolov	Lee Kyung-Keun	Stephen Gawthorpe Yoshiyuki Matsuoka
-71 kg	Ahn Byeong-Keun	Michael Swain	Wieslaw Blach Steffen Stranz
-78 kg	Nobutoshi Hikage	Torsten Bréchôt	Neil Adams Vladimir Shestakov
-86 kg	Peter Seisenbacher	Georgi Petrov	Fabien Canu Vitali Pesniak
-95 kg	Hitoshi Sugai	Ha Hyung-Joo	Gunther Neureuther Robert van de Walle
+95 kg	Cho Yong-Chul	Hitoshi Saito	Grigory Verichev Dimitar Zaprianov
Open	Yoshimi Masaki	Mohamed Rashwan	Khabil Biktachev Willy Wilhelm

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan (JPN)	4	1	1	6
2	South Korea (KOR)	2	2	0	4
3	Soviet Union (URS)	1	0	5	6
4	Austria (AUT)	1	0	0	1
5	West Germany (FRG)	0	1	2	3
6	Bulgaria (BUL)	0	1	1	2
7	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	0	1
	Egypt (EGY)	0	1	0	1
	United States (USA)	0	1	0	1
10	Great Britain (GBR)	0	0	2	2
11	Belgium (BEL)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (15 entries)		8	8	16	32

• "World Championships Seoul - Event". judoinside.com. Retrieved 2019-09-07.