World Wrestling Championships 2002

The wrestling world championships in 2002 took place separately according to style and gender at different locations. The wrestlers were divided into seven weight classes for the first time at world championships .

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place in Moscow from September 20-22, 2002 . The best German wrestler was Konstantin Schneider with a seventh place in the weight class –74 kg. The Germans Mirko Englich in eighth place in the –96 kg weight class and Nico Schmidt with 10th place in the –130 kg weight class also made it into the top ten.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	Geidar Mamedaliev	Nepes Gukulow	Hassan Rangraz
-60 kg	Poor Nazarjan	Włodzimierz Zawadzki	Roberto Monzón
-66 kg	Jimmy Samuelsson	Frid Mansurov	Manuchar K Wirkwelia
-74 kg	Waiting Samurgashev	Badri Chassaia	Filiberto Ascuy Aguilera
-84 kg	Ara Abrahamian	Alexander Menschtschikow	Mohamad Abd El Fatah
-96 kg	Mehmet Özal	Karam Ibrahim	Ali Mollow
-120 kg	Dremiel Byers	Mihály Deák Bárdos	Yuri Patrikeev

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	2	1	1
2	Sweden	2	0	0
3	Bulgaria	1	0	1
4th	Turkey	1	0	0
	United States	1	0	0
6th	Egypt	0	1	1
	Georgia	0	1	1
8th	Azerbaijan	0	1	0
	Poland	0	1	0
	Turkmenistan	0	1	0
	Hungary	0	1	0
12	Cuba	0	0	2
13	Iran	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place from September 5th to 7th, 2002 in Tehran . The best Germans were Engin Ürün in fourth in the -66 kg weight class, Daniel Wilde in the -60 kg weight class and Markus Hamann in seventh in the -120 kg weight class, Andre Backhaus in 8th place in the -84 kg weight class and Alexander Leipold with them 10th place in the weight class –74 kg. For Switzerland, Rolf Scherrer placed eighth in the –96 kg weight class and Robert Eggertswyler placed 10th in the –84 kg weight class among the top ten.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	René Montero	Namiq Abdullayev	Oleksandr Zecharyuk
-60 kg	Aram Margarjan	Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar	Mohammad Talaee
-66 kg	Elbrus Tedeev	Alireza Dabir	Saur Botayev
-74 kg	Mehdi Hajizadeh Jouibari	Magomed Issagadschiev	Volodymyr Syrotyn
-84 kg	Adam Saitijew	Yoel Romero Palacio	Majid Khodaee
-96 kg	Eldari Luka Kurtanidze	Alireza Heidari	Wadym Tassoev
-120 kg	David Musuľbes	Alexis Rodríguez Valera	Aydın Polatçı

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	2	1	1
2	Iran	1	2	2
3	Cuba	1	2	0
4th	Ukraine	1	0	3
5	Armenia	1	0	0
	Georgia	1	0	0
7th	Azerbaijan	0	1	0
	Mongolia	0	1	0
9	Turkey	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place from November 2nd to 3rd, 2002 in Chalkida . In addition to the title winner Brigitte Wagner , the Germans Christina Örtli came fifth in the -59 kg weight class, Annika Örtli came 6th in the -67 kg weight class, Stéphanie Groß came seventh in the -63 kg weight class and Anita Schätzle came 10th in the weight class -72 kg in the top ten. Nikola Hartmann-Dünser was the most successful Austrian with 6th place in the -63 kg weight class. The best Swiss woman was Nadine Tokar in ninth place in the -55 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Brigitte Wagner	Inga Karamchakova	Ida Hellström
-51 kg	Sofia Poumpouridou	Chiharu Icho	Natalja Golz
-55 kg	Saori Yoshida	Tina George	Ida-Theres Karlsson
-59 kg	Alyona Kartashova	Lotta Andersson	Mabel Fonseca
-63 kg	Kaori Icho	Sara Eriksson	Lene Aanes
-67 kg	Kateryna Burmistrowa	Lise Legrand	Kristie Marano
-72 kg	Kyōko Hamaguchi	Wang Xu	Edyta Witkowska

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	3	1	0
2	Russia	1	1	1
3	Germany	1	0	0
	Greece	1	0	0
	Ukraine	1	0	0
6th	Sweden	0	2	2
7th	France	0	1	1
	United States	0	1	1
9	People's Republic of China	0	1	0
10	Norway	0	0	1
	Puerto Rico	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