World Wrestling Championships 1987

The wrestling world championships in 1987 took place separately according to sex in different places. The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes per style , while the women who wrestled for the first time at world championships competed in nine weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from August 19-22, 1987 in Clermont-Ferrand . Of the Soviet wrestlers who started, only Timerschan Kalimulin missed out on a medal in eighth place in the -57 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Məhəddin Allahverdiyev	Vincenzo Maenza	Lars Rønningen
-52 kg	Pedro Roque Favier	Roman Kierpacz	Alexander Ignatenko
-57 kg	Patrice Mourier	Rıfat Yıldız	Keijo Pehkonen
-62 kg	Zhivko Wangelow Atanasov	Kamandar Majydau	Shigeki Nishiguchi
-68 kg	Aslaudin Abayev	Nandor Sabo	Jerzy Kopanski
-74 kg	Jouko Salomäki	Jozef Tracz	Stop at Turlykhanov
-82 kg	Tibor Komáromi	Roger Gössner	Sergei Nassevich
-90 kg	Vladimir Popov	Sándor Major	Atanas Komchev
-100 kg	Guram Guduschauri	Dennis Koslowski	Vasile Andrei
-130 kg	Igor Rostorotsky	Tomas Johansson	Rangel Gerowski

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	5	1	3
2	Hungary	1	1	0
3	Bulgaria	1	0	2
4th	Finland	1	0	1
5	France	1	0	0
	Cuba	1	0	0
7th	Poland	0	2	1
8th	BR Germany	0	2	0
9	Italy	0	1	0
	Yugoslavia	0	1	0
	Sweden	0	1	0
	United States	0	1	0
13	Japan	0	0	1
	Norway	0	0	1
	Romania	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place from August 26th to 29th, 1987 in Clermont-Ferrand . Of the Soviet wrestlers who started, only Vladimir Toguzov missed out on a medal in fourth place in the -52 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Li Jae-sik	Lee Sang-ho	Sergei Karamchakov
-52 kg	Valentin Jordanow	Kim Yong-sik	Mitsuru Satō
-57 kg	Sergei Beloglasov	Barry Davis	Ahmet Ak
-62 kg	John Smith	Khazar Isaev	Kazuhito Sakae
-68 kg	Arsen Fadzayev	Giorgios Athanassiadis	Andre Metzger
-74 kg	Adlan Varayev	David Schultz	Uwe Westendorf
-82 kg	Mark Schultz	Alexandar Nanew	Vladimir Modosyan
-90 kg	Macharbek Chadarzew	James Scherr	Jerzy Niec
-100 kg	Leri Chabelowi	Vasile Puşcaşu	William Scherr
-130 kg	Aslan Chadarzew	Andreas Schröder	Bruce Baumgartner

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	6th	1	2
2	United States	2	3	3
3	Bulgaria	1	1	0
	North Korea	1	1	0
5	German Democratic Republic	0	1	1
6th	Greece	0	1	0
	Romania	0	1	0
	South Korea	0	1	0
9	Japan	0	0	2
10	Poland	0	0	1
	Turkey	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place in Lørenskog from October 24-25 , 1987 . At these first women's world championships, the free style was defined by the FILA as a uniform style . There were 48 wrestlers from 8 nations (Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Japan, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) at the start, of which only the Finns and Swedes did not win any medals. While there were ten participants in the -57 kg weight class, there were only two in the -75 kg weight class, so no bronze medals were awarded there.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-44 kg	Brigitte Weigert	Anne Johnsen	Shoko Yoshimura
-47 kg	Anne Holten	Lynie van der Holst	Satomi Sugawara
-50 kg	Anne Halvorsen	Kyoko Fukuda	Martine Poupon
-67 kg	Sylvie van Gucht	Line Johansen (wrestler)	Stine Johansen
-57 kg	Isabelle Dourthe	Sylvie Maret	Silje Hauland
-61 kg	Ine Barlie	Akiko Lijima	Pia Buchholtz
-65 kg	Brigitte Herlin	Doerthe Pedersen Porsmose	Kimie Hoshikawa
-70 kg	Georgette Jean	Rika Iwama	Keep Reitan
-75 kg	Patricia Rossignol	Miyako Shimizu

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	France	5	1	1
2	Norway	3	2	3
3	Belgium	1	0	0
4th	Japan	0	4th	3
5	Denmark	0	1	1
6th	Netherlands	0	1	0

Individual evidence

1. ^ History of Women's Wrestling , accessed September 15, 2010

Web links

• Complete medal table (Greco-Roman men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Complete medal table (freestyle men ) at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Complete medal table (women) at the Institute for Applied Training Science