World Wrestling Championships 1990

The 1990 World Wrestling Championships took place in different locations, separated by style and gender. The wrestlers were divided into ten weight classes, while the women competed in nine weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from October 19-21, 1990 in Lido di Ostia . The Soviet Union was able to celebrate athletes on the podium in all 10 competitions.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Oleg Kutscherenko	Rajko Marinov	Ebina Yasuichi
-52 kg	Alexander Ignatenko	To Han-bong	Bratan Zenow
-57 kg	Rıfat Yıldız	Alexander Shestakov	Patrice Mourier
-62 kg	Mario Olivera	Gennady Atmakin	Ryszard Wolny
-68 kg	Islam Duguchiev	Jannis Zamanduridis	Attila Repka
-74 kg	Mnazakan Iskandaryan	Dobri Marinov	Željko Trajković
-82 kg	Péter Farkas	Mikhail Mamiashvili	Goran Kasum
-90 kg	Maik Bullmann	Harri Koskela	Vyacheslav Olijnyk
-100 kg	Syarhej Djamyashkevich	Sándor Major	Dušan Masár
-130 kg	Alexander Karelin	Tomas Johansson	Rangel Gerowski

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	6th	3	1
2	Germany	2	1	0
3	Hungary	1	1	1
4th	Cuba	1	0	0
5	Bulgaria	0	2	2
6th	Finland	0	1	0
	Sweden	0	1	0
	South Korea	0	1	0
9	Yugoslavia	0	0	2
10	France	0	0	1
	Japan	0	0	1
	Poland	0	0	1
	Czechoslovakia	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place in Tokyo from September 6th to 9th, 1990 .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Aldo Martínez	Marian Nedkow	Takashi Kobayashi
-52 kg	Majid Torkan	Valentin Jordanow	Aslan Ağayev
-57 kg	Alejandro Puerto	Rumen Pavlov	Sjarhej Smal
-62 kg	John Smith	Roses Vasilev	Gaji Rashidov
-68 kg	Arsen Fadzayev	Giorgios Athanassiadis	Jesús E. Rodríguez Garzón
-74 kg	Rahmat Sukra	Nasir Gadžihanov	Amir Reza Khadem
-82 kg	Jozef Lohyňa	Royce Alger	Puntsagiin Süchbat
-90 kg	Macharbek Chadarzew	Christopher Campbell	Mohammad Mohebbi
-100 kg	Leri Chabelowi	Stoyan Nechev	Kirk consolation
-130 kg	Dawit Gobedschishvili	Bruce Baumgartner	Hayri Sezgin

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Soviet Union	4th	1	3
2	Cuba	2	0	1
3	Bulgaria	1	5	0
4th	United States	1	3	1
5	Iran	1	0	2
6th	Czechoslovakia	1	0	0
7th	Greece	0	1	0
8th	Japan	0	0	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1
	Turkey	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place from June 29 to July 1, 1990 in Luleå . There were 45 wrestlers from 12 nations at the start, including Sandra Schrenker , the only German woman , who took sixth and last place in the -65 kg weight class. In the -75 kg weight class there were only three participants, so all athletes there received medals.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-44 kg	Shoko Yoshimura	Marie Ziegler	Huei Hsiang Chen
-47 kg	Asa Pedersen	Afsoon Roshanzamir	Yu Hsin Huang
-50 kg	Martine Poupon	Helena Honkamaa	Trine Bentzen
-53 kg	Sylvie van Gucht	Yoshiko Endo	Lotte Søvre
-57 kg	Gudrun Annette Høie	Olga Lugo Guardia	Riyoko Sakae
-61 kg	Brigitte Siffert	Kimie Hoshikawa	Ine Barlie
-65 kg	Akiko Iijima	Wu Mei Ling	Line Johansen
-70 kg	Rena Iwama	Emmanuelle Blind	Laura Martinez
-75 kg	Yayoi Urano	Su Hui Ma	Helen Mitzifri

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	4th	2	1
2	France	3	1	0
3	Sweden	1	1	0
4th	Norway	1	0	4th
5	Taiwan	0	2	2
6th	United States	0	2	0
7th	Venezuela	0	1	0
8th	Argentina	0	0	1
	Greece	0	0	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 世界 選手 権 ・ オ リ ン ピ ッ ク 歴 代 優勝者 ・ 日本 選手 成績 （女子） (PDF; 82 kB), accessed December 20, 2010 (Japanese)

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