World Wrestling Championships 1991

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The 1991 wrestling world championships took place in different locations, separated by sex. 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 in Varna from September 27th to 30th, 1991 .

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-48 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Kwan Duk-yong IranIran Ali Simkhah Soviet UnionSoviet Union Sergei Suvorov
-52 kg CubaCuba Raúl Martínez Inglés United StatesUnited States Shawn Sheldon NorwayNorway Jon Rønningen
-57 kg GermanyGermany Rıfat Yıldız Soviet UnionSoviet Union Alexander Ignatenko HungaryHungary András Sike
-62 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Sergei Martynov TurkeyTurkey Akif Pirim CubaCuba Juan Luis Marén
-68 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Islam Duguchiev SwedenSweden Martin Kornbakk BulgariaBulgaria Stoyan Dobrew
-74 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Mnazakan Iskandaryan CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jaroslav Zeman FranceFrance Yvon Riemer
-82 kg HungaryHungary Péter Farkas BulgariaBulgaria Todor Angelow Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Goran Kasum
-90 kg GermanyGermany Maik Bullmann CubaCuba Reynaldo Pena Borroto FinlandFinland Harri Koskela
-100 kg CubaCuba Héctor Milián SwedenSweden Jörgen Olsson Soviet UnionSoviet Union Syarhej Djamyashkevich
-130 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Alexander Karelin United StatesUnited States Matt Ghaffari BulgariaBulgaria Rangel Gerowski

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 4th 1 2
2 CubaCuba Cuba 2 1 1
3 GermanyGermany Germany 2 0 0
4th HungaryHungary Hungary 1 0 1
5 Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 1 0 0
6th SwedenSweden Sweden 0 2 0
United StatesUnited States United States 0 2 0
8th BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 0 1 2
9 IranIran Iran 0 1 0
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 1 0
TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 1 0
12 FinlandFinland Finland 0 0 1
FranceFrance France 0 0 1
Yugoslavia Socialist Federal RepublicYugoslavia Yugoslavia 0 0 1
NorwayNorway Norway 0 0 1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place from October 3rd to October 10th 1991 in Varna . Of the Soviet wrestlers who started, only Rassul Katinowassow missed a medal rank as fourth in the -82 kg weight class.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-48 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Wugar Orudschow Korea NorthNorth Korea Kim Il-ong Korea SouthSouth Korea Kim Jong-shin
-52 kg United StatesUnited States Zeke Jones BulgariaBulgaria Valentin Jordanow Soviet UnionSoviet Union Vladimir Toguzov
-57 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Sjarhej Smal United StatesUnited States Brad Penrith IranIran Oveis Mallah
-62 kg United StatesUnited States John Smith ItalyItaly Giovanni Schillaci Soviet UnionSoviet Union Gaji Rashidov
-68 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Arsen Fadzayev CanadaCanada Chris Wilson BulgariaBulgaria Valentin Getsow
-74 kg IranIran Amir Reza Khadem United StatesUnited States Kenneth Monday Soviet UnionSoviet Union Nasir Gadžihanov
-82 kg United StatesUnited States Kevin Jackson CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Jozef Lohyňa TurkeyTurkey Sebahattin Öztürk
-90 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Macharbek Chadarzew GreeceGreece Heraklis Deskoulidis CubaCuba Roberto Limonta Vargas
-100 kg Soviet UnionSoviet Union Leri Chabelowi United StatesUnited States Mark Coleman GermanyGermany Heiko Balz
-130 kg GermanyGermany Andreas Schröder Soviet UnionSoviet Union Gennady Schilzow CanadaCanada Jeffrey Thue

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 5 1 3
2 United StatesUnited States United States 3 3 0
3 GermanyGermany Germany 1 0 1
IranIran Iran 1 0 1
5 BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 0 1 1
CanadaCanada Canada 0 1 1
7th GreeceGreece Greece 0 1 0
ItalyItaly Italy 0 1 0
Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 0 1 0
CzechoslovakiaCzechoslovakia Czechoslovakia 0 1 0
11 CubaCuba Cuba 0 0 1
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0 0 1
TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 0 1

Women

The women's competitions took place from August 24-25, 1991 in Tokyo . There were 64 wrestlers from 13 nations at the start.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-44 kg China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiue Zhong United StatesUnited States Marie Ziegler JapanJapan Shoko Yoshimura
-47 kg JapanJapan Miyu Yamamoto China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Yanping Pan NorwayNorway Elisabeth Garcia
-50 kg FranceFrance Martine Poupon United StatesUnited States Shannon Williams JapanJapan Youko Higashi
-53 kg China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xia Zhang JapanJapan Yoshiko Endo Venezuela 1954Venezuela Wenddy Yzaguirre Gonzalez
-57 kg Venezuela 1954Venezuela Olga Lugo Guardia NorwayNorway Gudrun Annette Høie FranceFrance Marine Roy
-61 kg FranceFrance Brigitte Siffert JapanJapan Kimie Hoshikawa NorwayNorway Line Johansen
-65 kg JapanJapan Akiko Iijima NorwayNorway Ine Barlie FranceFrance Sylvie Thomé
-70 kg JapanJapan Yayoi Urano FranceFrance Emmanuelle Blind Venezuela 1954Venezuela Mirna Martinez
-75 kg China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Dong Feng Liu Korea SouthSouth Korea Jeun Kyung-ran Soviet UnionSoviet Union Lyudmila Golikova

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 JapanJapan Japan 3 2 2
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 3 1 0
3 FranceFrance France 2 1 2
4th Venezuela 1954Venezuela Venezuela 1 0 2
5 NorwayNorway Norway 0 2 2
6th United StatesUnited States United States 0 2 0
7th Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0 1 0
8th Soviet UnionSoviet Union Soviet Union 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)

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