World Wrestling Championships 1994

The 1994 wrestling world 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 in Tampere from September 8-11, 1994 .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Wilber Sánchez	Aljaksandr Paulau	Gela Papashvili
-52 kg	Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan	Natiq Eyvazov	Andrii Kalaschnykov
-57 kg	Yuri Melnichenko	Alexander Ignatenko	Dennis Hall
-62 kg	Sergei Martynov	Ivan Radew	Włodzimierz Zawadzki
-68 kg	Islam Duguchiev	Ghani Yalouz	Bisser Georgiev
-74 kg	Mnazakan Iskandaryan	Jozef Tracz	Torbjörn Kornbakk
-82 kg	Thomas Zander	Tuomo Karila	Valeryj Zilent
-90 kg	Gogi Koguashvili	Vyacheslav Olijnyk	Maik Bullmann
-100 kg	Andrzej Wroński	Bakur Gogitidze	Georgi Saldadze
-130 kg	Alexander Karelin	Héctor Milián	Piotr Kotok

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	5	1	0
2	Germany	2	0	1
3	Poland	1	1	1
4th	Cuba	1	1	0
5	Kazakhstan	1	0	0
6th	Ukraine	0	1	3
7th	Bulgaria	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	1	1
	Belarus	0	1	1
10	Azerbaijan	0	1	0
	Finland	0	1	0
	France	0	1	0
13	Sweden	0	0	1
	United States	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place in Istanbul from August 24th to 28th, 1994 .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Alexis Vila	Young Soon-won	Pyotr Yumshanov
-52 kg	Valentin Jordanow	Named Abdullaev	Gholamreza Mohammadi
-57 kg	Alejandro Puerto	Mohammad Talaee	Bagavdin Umakhanov
-62 kg	Magomed Azizov	Sjarhej Smal	Giovanni Schillaci
-68 kg	Alexander Leipold	Jesús E. Rodríguez Garzón	Kenschebek Omuraliev
-74 kg	Turan Ceylan	Viktor Peikov	Behrouz Yari Kalani
-82 kg	Lukman Schabrailow	Sebahattin Öztürk	Hans Gstöttner
-90 kg	Rasoul Khadem	Macharbek Chadarzew	Melvin Douglas
-100 kg	Arawat Sabeyev	Davud Magomedov	David Musuľbes
-130 kg	Mahmut Demir	Bruce Baumgartner	Alyaksey Medved

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Cuba	2	1	0
	Turkey	2	1	0
3	Germany	2	0	1
4th	Russia	1	1	3
5	Iran	1	1	2
6th	Moldova	1	1	0
7th	Bulgaria	1	0	0
8th	Azerbaijan	0	2	0
9	United States	0	1	1
	Belarus	0	1	1
11	South Korea	0	1	0
12	Italy	0	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place from August 6th to 7th, 1994 in Sofia . Of the Japanese wrestlers who started, only Yuka Mitadera in the -57 kg weight class and Mayumi Kurokawa in the -61 kg weight class missed the medal ranks in fourth place.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-44 kg	Shoko Yoshimura	Tatiana Karamchakova	Dana Durecová
-47 kg	Miho Adachi	Margaret Legates	Helene Escaich
-50 kg	Miyu Ikeda	Anna Gomis	Elena Yegoschina
-53 kg	Akemi Kawasaki	Shannon Williams	Sophie Pluquet
-57 kg	Line Johansen	Zohya Dahmani	Sara Eriksson
-61 kg	Nikola Hartmann-Dünser	Isabelle Dourthe	Natalia Ivanova
-65 kg	Yayoi Urano	Doris Blind	Maryja Kremskaya
-70 kg	Christine Nordhagen	Elmira Kurbanowa	Mikiko Miyazaki
-75 kg	Mizuko Funakoshi	Yevgenia Osipenko	Elisaveta Tolewa

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	6th	0	1
2	Canada	1	0	0
	Norway	1	0	0
	Austria	1	0	0
5	France	0	4th	2
6th	Russia	0	3	2
7th	United States	0	2	0
8th	Bulgaria	0	0	1
	Sweden	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1
	Ukraine	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