The men's 71 kg competition in judo at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles was held on 6 August at the California State University. The gold medal was won by Ahn Byeong-keun of South Korea.

Results

Pool A

Pool B

Repechages

Final

Final classification

Rank Judoka Nation Ahn Byeong-keun Ezio Gamba Kerrith Brown Luiz Onmura 5T Glenn Beauchamp 5T Hidetoshi Nakanishi 7T Kieran Foley 7T Serge Dyot 9T Johannes Wohlwend 9T Juan Vargas 11T Mike Swain 11T Liaw Der-cheng 13T Yi Dexin 13T Federico Vizcarra 13T Hassan Ben Gamra 13T Yousuf Al-Hammad 13T Joaquín Ruiz 13T Steffen Stranz 19T Tan Chin Kee 19T Shaun O'Leary 19T Jean Claude N'Guessan 19T Rony Khawam 19T Yousry Zagloul 19T Frank Evensen 19T Michael Young 19T Alvaro Sanabria 19T Antti Hyvärinen 19T Vojo Vujevic 19T Ibrahima Diallo 19T Hugo d'Assunção 19T Alick Kalwihzi

References