World Wrestling Championships 1996

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The 1996 World Wrestling Championships took place in Sofia from August 29 to 31, 1996 . Because of the Olympic Games in the same year, only women's competitions were held.

Medalist

class gold silver bronze
-44 kg China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiue Zhong AustriaAustria Almuth Leitgeb JapanJapan Shoko Yoshimura
-47 kg United StatesUnited States Tricia Saunders FranceFrance Angélique Berthenet-Hidalgo JapanJapan Miho Adachi
-50 kg RussiaRussia Olga Smirnova JapanJapan Yoshiko Endo SwedenSweden Ida Hellström
-53 kg FranceFrance Anna Gomis CanadaCanada Jennifer Ryz JapanJapan Riyoko Sakae
-57 kg SwedenSweden Sara Eriksson United StatesUnited States Jackie Berube NorwayNorway Lene Aanes
-61 kg JapanJapan Mikiko Miyazaki RussiaRussia Natalia Ivanova GermanyGermany Stéphanie Groß
-65 kg JapanJapan Yayoi Urano FranceFrance Doris Blind RussiaRussia Elmira Kurbanowa
-70 kg CanadaCanada Christine Nordhagen BulgariaBulgaria Galina Ivanova FranceFrance Lise Golliot
-75 kg China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Dong Feng Liu United StatesUnited States Kristie Marano TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Ling-Li Sha

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 JapanJapan Japan 2 1 3
2 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 2 0 0
3 FranceFrance France 1 2 1
4th United StatesUnited States United States 1 2 0
5 RussiaRussia Russia 1 1 1
6th CanadaCanada Canada 1 1 0
7th SwedenSweden Sweden 1 0 1
8th BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 0 1 0
AustriaAustria Austria 0 1 0
10 GermanyGermany Germany 0 0 1
NorwayNorway Norway 0 0 1
TaiwanRepublic of China (Taiwan) Taiwan 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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