The 1979 European Judo Championships were the 29th edition of the European Judo Championships, and were held in Brussels, Belgium from 24 to 27 May 1979.

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
60 kg	Felice Mariani	Helmut Grobelin	Josef Reiter Aramby Emizh
65 kg	Nikolay Solodukhin	James Rohleder	Yves Delvingt Nicolae Vlad
71 kg	Neil Adams	Ezio Gamba	Günther Krueger Evgeny Babanov
78 kg	Harald Heinke	Shota Khabareli	Adam Adamczyk Mihalache Toma
86 kg	Jürgen Roethlisberger	Slavko Obadov	Detlef Ultsch Endre Kiss
95 kg	Tengiz Khubuluri	Robert Van de Walle	Günther Neureuther Robert Köstenberger
95+ kg	Jean-Luc Rougé	Vitaly Kuznetsov	Peter Adelaar Imre Varga
Open class	Aleksey Tyurin	Angelo Parisi	Robert Van de Walle Paul Radburn

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	3	2	2	7
2	France (FRA)	1	1	1	3
3	Italy (ITA)	1	1	0	2
4	East Germany (DDR)	1	0	2	3
5	Great Britain (GBR)	1	0	1	2
6	Switzerland (SUI)	1	0	0	1
7	West Germany (FRG)	0	2	1	3
8	Belgium (BEL)	0	1	1	2
9	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	1	0	1
10	Austria (AUT)	0	0	2	2
	Hungary (HUN)	0	0	2	2
	Romania (ROM)	0	0	2	2
13	Netherlands (NED)	0	0	1	1
	Poland (POL)	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		8	8	16	32

• Results of the 1979 European Judo Championships (JudoInside.com)
• Results of the 1979 European Judo Championships (the-sports.org)