World Wrestling Championships 1997

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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 TurkeyTurkey Ercan Yıldız ArmeniaArmenia Wahan Juharjan GermanyGermany Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
-58 kg KazakhstanKazakhstan Yuri Melnichenko RussiaRussia Rafik Simonjan BulgariaBulgaria Poor Nazarjan
-63 kg TurkeyTurkey Şeref Eroğlu RussiaRussia Nikolai Monov PolandPoland Włodzimierz Zawadzki
-69 kg Korea SouthSouth Korea Son Sang-pil RussiaRussia Alexander Tretyakov RomaniaRomania Ender memet
-76 kg FinlandFinland Marko Yli-Hannuksela HungaryHungary Tamás Berzicza CubaCuba Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera
-85 kg RussiaRussia Sergei Zwir TurkeyTurkey Hamza Yerlikaya GermanyGermany Thomas Zander
-97 kg RussiaRussia Gogi Koguashvili Belarus 1995Belarus Anatol Fedarenka PolandPoland Andrzej Wroński
-130 kg RussiaRussia Alexander Karelin HungaryHungary Mihály Deák Bárdos CubaCuba Héctor Milián

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 RussiaRussia Russia 3 3 0
2 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 2 1 0
3 FinlandFinland Finland 1 0 0
KazakhstanKazakhstan Kazakhstan 1 0 0
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 1 0 0
6th HungaryHungary Hungary 0 2 0
7th ArmeniaArmenia Armenia 0 1 0
Belarus 1995Belarus Belarus 0 1 0
9 GermanyGermany Germany 0 0 2
CubaCuba Cuba 0 0 2
PolandPoland Poland 0 0 2
12 BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 0 0 1
RomaniaRomania 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 CubaCuba Wilfredo García Korea NorthNorth Korea Jin Ju-dong KazakhstanKazakhstan Maulen Mamirov
-58 kg IranIran Mohammad Talaee UzbekistanUzbekistan Ramil Islamov CanadaCanada Guivi Sissaouri
-63 kg IranIran Abbas Haj Kenari United StatesUnited States Cary J. Kolat RussiaRussia Magomed Azizov
-69 kg ArmeniaArmenia Araik Geworgjan Korea SouthSouth Korea Hwang Sang-ho UkraineUkraine Sasa Sazirov
-76 kg RussiaRussia Buwaisar Saitijew GermanyGermany Alexander Leipold BulgariaBulgaria Miroslaw Gotschew
-85 kg United StatesUnited States Leslie Gutches UkraineUkraine Eldar Assanov IranIran Alireza Heidari
-97 kg RussiaRussia Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow TurkeyTurkey Ahmet Dogu Georgia 1990Georgia Eldari Luka Kurtanidze
-130 kg TurkeyTurkey Zekeriya Güçlü CubaCuba Alexis Rodríguez Valera RussiaRussia David Musuľbes

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 RussiaRussia Russia 2 0 2
2 IranIran Iran 2 0 1
3 CubaCuba Cuba 1 1 0
TurkeyTurkey Turkey 1 1 0
United StatesUnited States United States 1 1 0
6th ArmeniaArmenia Armenia 1 0 0
7th UkraineUkraine Ukraine 0 1 1
8th GermanyGermany Germany 0 1 0
Korea NorthNorth Korea North Korea 0 1 0
Korea SouthSouth Korea South Korea 0 1 0
UzbekistanUzbekistan Uzbekistan 0 1 0
12 BulgariaBulgaria Bulgaria 0 0 1
Georgia 1990Georgia Georgia 0 0 1
CanadaCanada Canada 0 0 1
KazakhstanKazakhstan 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 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Xiue Zhong NorwayNorway Bette Barlie FranceFrance Farah Touchi
-51 kg PolandPoland Joanna Piasecka United StatesUnited States Shannon Williams JapanJapan Miho Adachi
-56 kg FranceFrance Anna Gomis JapanJapan Mariko Shimizu SwedenSweden Sara Eriksson
-62 kg FranceFrance Lise Golliot GermanyGermany Stéphanie Groß PolandPoland Małgorzata Bassa-Roguska
-68 kg CanadaCanada Christine Nordhagen United StatesUnited States Sandra Bacher GermanyGermany Nina Englich
-75 kg JapanJapan Kyōko Hamaguchi United StatesUnited States Kristie Marano China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China Dong Feng Liu

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 FranceFrance France 2 0 1
2 JapanJapan Japan 1 1 1
3 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China 1 0 1
PolandPoland Poland 1 0 1
5 CanadaCanada Canada 1 0 0
6th United StatesUnited States United States 0 3 0
7th GermanyGermany Germany 0 1 1
8th NorwayNorway Norway 0 1 0
9 SwedenSweden Sweden 0 0 1

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