World Wrestling Championships 1998

The wrestling world championships in 1998 took place separately according to style and gender at different locations. 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 from August 27th to 30th, 1998 in Gävle . Three German wrestlers came in the top ten in their weight classes: Oleg Kutscherenko was the best German wrestler with 6th place in the -54 kg weight class, Thomas Zander was eighth in the -85 kg weight class and Adam Juretzko was 10th in the -69 kg weight class .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Sim Gwon-ho	Marian Sandu	Khaled al-Faraj
-58 kg	Kim In-sub	Sheng Zetiang	Poor Nazarjan
-63 kg	Mchitar Manukjan	Şeref Eroğlu	Choi Sang-sun
-69 kg	Alexander Tretyakov	Csaba Hirbik	Son Sang-pil
-76 kg	Baqtiyar Baiseyitov	Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera	Nazmi Avluca
-85 kg	Alexander Menschtschikow	János Kismoni	Martin Lidberg
-97 kg	Gogi Koguashvili	Marek Švec	David Saldadze
-130 kg	Alexander Karelin	Matt Ghaffari	Youri Evseytchik

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	4th	0	0
2	South Korea	2	0	2
3	Kazakhstan	2	0	0
4th	Hungary	0	2	0
5	Turkey	0	1	1
6th	People's Republic of China	0	1	0
	Cuba	0	1	0
	Romania	0	1	0
	Czech Republic	0	1	0
	United States	0	1	0
11	Bulgaria	0	0	1
	Israel	0	0	1
	Sweden	0	0	1
	Syria	0	0	1
	Ukraine	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place from September 7-10, 1998 in Tehran . In addition to the bronze medalist Alexander Leipold , three other German wrestlers were among the top ten in their weight classes: Heiko Balz in the -97 kg weight class and Vasili Zeiher in the -54 kg weight class came in seventh, Sven Thiele was placed in the -130 kg weight class 9th place.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Samuel Henson	Namiq Abdullayev	Gholamreza Mohammadi
-58 kg	Alireza Dabir	Harun Dogan	Guivi Sissaouri
-63 kg	Serafim Barzakov	Abbas Haj Kenari	Cary J. Kolat
-69 kg	Araik Geworgjan	Sasa Sazirov	Lincoln McIlravy
-76 kg	Buwaissar Saitijew	Moon Eui-jae	Alexander Leipold
-85 kg	Alireza Heidari	Mogamed Ibragimov	Yoel Romero Palacio
-97 kg	Abbas Jadidi	Marek Garmulewicz	Kuramagomed Kuramagomedow
-130 kg	Alexis Rodríguez Valera	Rasoul Khadem	Andrei Shumilin

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Iran	3	2	1
2	Russia	1	0	2
	United States	1	0	2
4th	Cuba	1	0	1
5	Armenia	1	0	0
	Bulgaria	1	0	0
7th	Azerbaijan	0	1	0
	North Macedonia	0	1	0
	Poland	0	1	0
	South Korea	0	1	0
	Turkey	0	1	0
	Ukraine	0	1	0
13	Germany	0	0	1
	Canada	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place in Poznan from October 8-10, 1998 . In addition to the silver medalist Stéphanie Groß , three other German women wrestlers made it into the top ten: Nina Englich finished fourth in the -75 kg weight class, Tanja Sauter came seventh in the -51 kg weight class and Anita Schätzle was ranked 8th in the -62 weight class kg. Next to Nikola Hartmann-Dünser, the best Austrians were the two sixth placed Nina Strasser in the -68 kg weight class and Elvira Barriga in the -75 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-46 kg	Tricia Saunders	Miyuki Ikeda	Inga Karamchakova
-51 kg	Atsuko Shinomura	Ida Hellström	Elena Yegoschina
-56 kg	Gudrun Annette Høie	Anna Gomis	Sara Eriksson
-62 kg	Nikola Hartmann-Dünser	Lene Aanes	Natalia Vinogradova
-68 kg	Christine Nordhagen	Stéphanie Groß	Sandra Bacher
-75 kg	Kyōko Hamaguchi	Kristie Marano	Edyta Witkowska

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	2	1	0
2	United States	1	1	1
3	Norway	1	1	0
4th	Canada	1	0	0
	Austria	1	0	0
6th	Sweden	0	1	1
7th	Germany	0	1	0
	France	0	1	0
9	Russia	0	0	3
10	Poland	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