World Wrestling Championships 1989

The Wrestling World Championships 1989 took place from August 24 to September 3, 1989 in Martigny . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes per style , while the women competed in nine weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from August 24th to 27th, 1989. Of the Soviet wrestlers who started, only Syarhej Dzjamjaschkewitsch missed a medal rank as fifth in the -90 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Oleg Kutscherenko	Lars Rønningen	Duk-Yong Gooun
-52 kg	Alexander Ignatenko	Remzi Özturk	To Han-bong
-57 kg	Emil Ivanov	Alexander Shestakov	András Sike
-62 kg	Kamandar Majydau	Byung-Ho Huh	Mario Olivera
-68 kg	Claudio Passarelli	Ghani Yalouz	Levon Julfalakyan
-74 kg	Stop at Turlykhanov	Anton Arghira	Petar Tenew
-82 kg	Tibor Komáromi	Mikhail Mamiashvili	Magnus Fredriksson
-90 kg	Maik Bullmann	Mike Foy	Roger Gries
-100 kg	Gerhard Himmel	Yulian Vasilev	Anatol Fedarenka
-130 kg	Alexander Karelin	László Klauz	Tomas Johansson

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	5	2	2
2	BR Germany	2	0	1
3	Bulgaria	1	1	1
	Hungary	1	1	1
5	German Democratic Republic	1	0	0
6th	South Korea	0	1	2
7th	France	0	1	0
	Norway	0	1	0
	Romania	0	1	0
	Turkey	0	1	0
	United States	0	1	0
12	Sweden	0	0	2
13	Cuba	0	0	1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from September 1st to 3rd, 1989.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Kim Jong-shin	Li Hak-son	Gnel Medschlumjan
-52 kg	Valentin Jordanow	Vladimir Toguzov	Majid Torkan
-57 kg	Sik-Seung Kim	Askari Mohammadian	Rumen Pavlov
-62 kg	John Smith	Gary Bohay	Karsten Polky
-68 kg	Boris Budayev	Kōsei Akaishi	Ahmet Çakıcı
-74 kg	Kenneth Monday	Arsen Fadzayev	Lodoin Enchbajar
-82 kg	Elmadi Schabrailow	Melvin Douglas	Alcide Legrand
-90 kg	Macharbek Chadarzew	James Scherr	Gábor Tóth
-100 kg	Akhmed Atavov	William Scherr	Uwe Neupert
-130 kg	Alireza Soleimani Karbalaei	Bruce Baumgartner	Aslan Chadarzew

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	4th	2	2
2	United States	2	4th	0
3	South Korea	2	0	0
4th	Iran	1	1	1
5	Bulgaria	1	0	1
6th	Japan	0	1	0
	Canada	0	1	0
	North Korea	0	1	0
9	German Democratic Republic	0	0	2
10	BR Germany	0	0	1
	France	0	0	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1
	Hungary	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place from August 24th to 25th, 1989. There were 53 wrestlers from 13 nations at the start, including Sandra Schrenker , the only German woman who came fourth in the -65 kg weight class. While there were nine 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	Shoko Yoshimura	Yu Hsin Huang	Trine beach
-47 kg	Ming-Hsiu Chen	Tomoko Matsumeda	Sue Roshanzamir
-50 kg	Anne Holten	Asia de Weese	Martine Poupon
-53 kg	Sylvie van Gucht	Yu-Ping Chou	Lotte Søvre
-57 kg	Gudrun Annette Høie	Riyoko Sakae	Inge Krasser
-61 kg	Jocelyne Sagon	Ine Barlie	Kimie Hoshikawa
-65 kg	Emmanuelle Blind	Nina Nilsen	Akiko Iijima
-70 kg	Georgette Jean	Leia Kawaii	Rena Iwama
-75 kg	Miyako Shimizu	Kirsten Borgen

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	France	4th	0	1
2	Norway	2	3	2
3	Japan	2	2	3
4th	Taiwan	1	2	0
5	United States	0	2	1
6th	Switzerland	0	0	1

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