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 |