World Wrestling Championships 1997

The 1997 wrestling world championships took place in different locations, separated by style and gender. The wrestlers were each divided into eight weight classes, while the women competed in six weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place in Wroclaw from September 10th to 13th, 1997 .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Ercan Yıldız	Wahan Juharjan	Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
-58 kg	Yuri Melnichenko	Rafik Simonjan	Poor Nazarjan
-63 kg	Şeref Eroğlu	Nikolai Monov	Włodzimierz Zawadzki
-69 kg	Son Sang-pil	Alexander Tretyakov	Ender memet
-76 kg	Marko Yli-Hannuksela	Tamás Berzicza	Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera
-85 kg	Sergei Zwir	Hamza Yerlikaya	Thomas Zander
-97 kg	Gogi Koguashvili	Anatol Fedarenka	Andrzej Wroński
-130 kg	Alexander Karelin	Mihály Deák Bárdos	Héctor Milián

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	3	3	0
2	Turkey	2	1	0
3	Finland	1	0	0
	Kazakhstan	1	0	0
	South Korea	1	0	0
6th	Hungary	0	2	0
7th	Armenia	0	1	0
	Belarus	0	1	0
9	Germany	0	0	2
	Cuba	0	0	2
	Poland	0	0	2
12	Bulgaria	0	0	1
	Romania	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions were held from August 29 to September 1, 1997 in Krasnoyarsk .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Wilfredo García	Jin Ju-dong	Maulen Mamirov
-58 kg	Mohammad Talaee	Ramil Islamov	Guivi Sissaouri
-63 kg	Abbas Haj Kenari	Cary J. Kolat	Magomed Azizov
-69 kg	Araik Geworgjan	Hwang Sang-ho	Sasa Sazirov
-76 kg	Buwaisar Saitijew	Alexander Leipold	Miroslaw Gotschew
-85 kg	Leslie Gutches	Eldar Assanov	Alireza Heidari
-97 kg	Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow	Ahmet Dogu	Eldari Luka Kurtanidze
-130 kg	Zekeriya Güçlü	Alexis Rodríguez Valera	David Musuľbes

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	2	0	2
2	Iran	2	0	1
3	Cuba	1	1	0
	Turkey	1	1	0
	United States	1	1	0
6th	Armenia	1	0	0
7th	Ukraine	0	1	1
8th	Germany	0	1	0
	North Korea	0	1	0
	South Korea	0	1	0
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0
12	Bulgaria	0	0	1
	Georgia	0	0	1
	Canada	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place from July 10th to 12th, 1997 in Clermont-Ferrand .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-46 kg	Xiue Zhong	Bette Barlie	Farah Touchi
-51 kg	Joanna Piasecka	Shannon Williams	Miho Adachi
-56 kg	Anna Gomis	Mariko Shimizu	Sara Eriksson
-62 kg	Lise Golliot	Stéphanie Groß	Małgorzata Bassa-Roguska
-68 kg	Christine Nordhagen	Sandra Bacher	Nina Englich
-75 kg	Kyōko Hamaguchi	Kristie Marano	Dong Feng Liu

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	France	2	0	1
2	Japan	1	1	1
3	People's Republic of China	1	0	1
	Poland	1	0	1
5	Canada	1	0	0
6th	United States	0	3	0
7th	Germany	0	1	1
8th	Norway	0	1	0
9	Sweden	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