World Wrestling Championships 1999

The World Wrestling Championships in 1999 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 Athens from September 23 to 26, 1999 . In addition to the two medal winners Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan and Thomas Zander , Adam Juretzko came in ninth in the -69 kg weight class, another German among the top ten. The Switzerland had its best wrestler in Urs Bürgler was the kg in the weight category -97 sixth.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Lázaro Rivas	Ha Tae-yeon	Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan
-58 kg	Kim In-sub	Yuri Melnichenko	Poor Nazarjan
-63 kg	Mchitar Manukjan	Şeref Eroğlu	Michael Beilin
-69 kg	Son Sang-pil	Alexander Tretyakov	Uladsimir Kapytau
-76 kg	Nazmi Avluca	Yvon Riemer	Dimitrios Avramis
-85 kg	Luiz Mendez Lazo	Thomas Zander	Raatbek Sanatbayev
-97 kg	Gogi Koguashvili	Andrzej Wroński	Mikael Ljungberg
-130 kg	Alexander Karelin	Héctor Milián	Sergei Mureiko

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Cuba	2	1	0
2	Russia	2	1	0
3	South Korea	2	1	0
4th	Kazakhstan	1	1	0
	Turkey	1	1	0
6th	Germany	0	1	1
7th	France	0	1	0
	Poland	0	1	0
9	Bulgaria	0	0	2
10	Greece	0	0	1
	Israel	0	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1
	Sweden	0	0	1
	Belarus	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place in Ankara from October 7-10, 1999 . In addition to Alexander Leipold , the German wrestlers achieved three other placements in the top ten: Sven Thiele took 6th place in the -130 kg weight class, Vasili Zeiher came ninth in the -54 kg weight class and Heiko Balz came in 10th place the weight class -97 kg.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Kim Woo-yong	Achilov Achilov	Olexander Sacharuk
-58 kg	Harun Dogan	Alireza Dabir	Damir Zahartdinov
-63 kg	Elbrus Tedeev	Jang Jae-sung	Ramil Islamov
-69 kg	Daniel Igali	Lincoln McIlravy	Yüksel Şanlı
-76 kg	Adam Saitijew	Alexander Leipold	Adem Bereket
-85 kg	Yoel Romero Palacio	Khadzhimurad Magomedov	Leslie Gutches
-97 kg	Sagid Murtasaliev	Alireza Heidari	Marek Garmulewicz
-130 kg	Stephen Neal	Andrei Shumilin	Abbas Jadidi

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	2	2	0
2	United States	1	1	1
3	South Korea	1	1	0
4th	Turkey	1	0	2
5	Ukraine	1	0	1
6th	Canada	1	0	0
	Cuba	1	0	0
8th	Iran	0	2	1
9	Uzbekistan	0	1	2
10	Germany	0	1	0
11	Poland	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place in Boden from September 10th to 12th, 1999 .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-46 kg	Tricia Saunders	Xiue Zhong	Inga Karamchakova
-51 kg	Seiko Yamamoto	Erica Sharp	Yanzhi Gao
-56 kg	Anna Gomis	Mariko Shimizu	Gudrun Annette Høie
-62 kg	Ayako Shōda	Meng Lili	Lotta Andersson
-68 kg	Sandra Bacher	Anita Schätzle	Anna Shamova
-75 kg	Kyōko Hamaguchi	Kristie Marano	Christine Nordhagen

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	3	1	0
2	United States	2	1	0
3	France	1	0	0
4th	People's Republic of China	0	2	1
5	Canada	0	1	1
6th	Germany	0	1	0
7th	Russia	0	0	2
8th	Norway	0	0	1
	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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Database | United World Wrestling. Retrieved July 26, 2019 .