World Wrestling Championships 2001

The World Wrestling Championships 2001 took place separately at different locations according to style. The wrestlers were each divided into eight weight classes, while the women competed in six weight classes. Originally, the World Championships were to be held from September 26th to 29th, 2001 in Madison Square Garden in New York City . 693 athletes from 82 nations announced their participation. After the terrorist attacks of September 11th, the FILA canceled the event one week before it began for reasons of piety and security. In October 2001 new dates and venues were announced.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from December 6th to 9th, 2001 in Patras .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Hassan Rangraz	Brandon Paulson	Lázaro Rivas
-58 kg	Dilshod Aripov	Karen Mnazakanjan	Roberto Monzón
-63 kg	Waghinak Galstyan	Kim In-sub	Michael Beilin
-69 kg	Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera	Alexei Glushkov	Rustam Aji
-76 kg	Ara Abrahamian	Alexei Mishin	Kim Jin-soo
-85 kg	Muchran Vakhtangadze	Matt Lindland	Olexandr Darahan
-97 kg	Alexander Besruchkin	Ernesto Peña	Mehmet Özal
-130 kg	Rulon Gardner	Mihály Deák Bárdos	Xenofon Koutsioubas

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	1	2	0
	United States	1	2	0
3	Cuba	1	1	2
4th	Armenia	1	1	0
5	Georgia	1	0	0
	Iran	1	0	0
	Sweden	1	0	0
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0
9	South Korea	0	1	1
10	Hungary	0	1	0
11	Ukraine	0	0	2
12	Greece	0	0	1
	Israel	0	0	1
	Turkey	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions were held in Sofia from November 22-25, 2001 .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-54 kg	Herman Kantojeu	Babak Noursad	Aljaksandr Kantojeu
-58 kg	Guivi Sissaouri	Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar	Dawit Pogosjan
-63 kg	Serafim Barzakov	Alireza Dabir	Elbrus Tedeev
-69 kg	Nikolai Paslar	Amir Tavakolian	Jang Jae-sung
-76 kg	Buwaisar Saitijew	Moon Eui-jae	Joe E. Williams
-85 kg	Khadzhimurad Magomedov	Brandon Eggum	Yoel Romero Palacio
-97 kg	Giorgi Gogschelidze	Krassimir Kochev	Wadym Tassoev
-130 kg	David Musuľbes	Artur Taymazov	Alexis Rodríguez Valera

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	4th	0	1
2	Bulgaria	2	1	0
3	Canada	1	0	0
	Belarus	1	0	0
5	Iran	0	3	0
6th	South Korea	0	1	1
	United States	0	1	1
8th	Mongolia	0	1	0
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0
10	Cuba	0	0	2
	Ukraine	0	0	2
12	Georgia	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place in Sofia from November 22-25, 2001 .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-46 kg	Iryna Merleni	Carol Huynh	Brigitte Wagner
-51 kg	Hitomi Sakamoto	Stephanie Murata	Yanzhi Gao
-56 kg	Seiko Yamamoto	Lyubov Volosova	Tetiana Lazareva
-62 kg	Meng Lili	Diletta Giampiccolo	Lena Aanes
-68 kg	Christine Nordhagen	Toccara Montgomery	Anita Schätzle
-75 kg	Edyta Witkowska	Bailing Ma	Nina Englich

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	2	0	0
2	People's Republic of China	1	1	1
3	Canada	1	1	0
4th	Ukraine	1	0	1
5	Poland	1	0	0
6th	United States	0	2	0
7th	Italy	0	1	0
	Russia	0	1	0
9	Germany	0	0	3
10	Norway	0	0	1

Individual evidence

1. ↑ WRESTLING CHAMPIONSHIP MOVED TO BULGARIA , accessed on December 22, 2010 (English)

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