World Wrestling Championships 2003

The wrestling world championships in 2003 took place separately in different locations according to style. The wrestlers were divided into seven weight classes.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from October 1st to 5th, 2003 in Créteil . In addition to Konstantin Schneider , Jannis Zamanduridis came in seventh in the -66 kg weight class and the two tenth-placed Jurij Kohl in the -60 kg weight class and Mirko Englich in the -96 kg weight class, three other Germans among the top ten.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	Dariusz Jabłoński	In Dae-won	Lázaro Rivas
-60 kg	Poor Nazarjan	Roberto Monzón	Eusebiu Diaconu
-66 kg	Manuchar K Wirkwelia	Poor Vardanyan	Levente Füredy
-74 kg	Alexei Glushkov	Konstantin Schneider	Kim Jin-soo
-84 kg	Gotcha Ziziashvili	Ara Abrahamian	Attila Bátky
-96 kg	Martin Lidberg	Karam Ibrahim	Ramas Nosadze
-120 kg	Hassan Baroev	Mihály Deák Bárdos	Georgi Zurzumia

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	2	0	0
2	Sweden	1	1	0
3	Georgia	1	0	1
4th	Bulgaria	1	0	0
	Israel	1	0	0
	Poland	1	0	0
7th	Cuba	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	1	1
10	Egypt	0	1	0
	Germany	0	1	0
	Ukraine	0	1	0
13	Kazakhstan	0	0	1
	Romania	0	0	1
	Slovakia	0	0	1

Freestyle

The free style competitions took place in New York City from September 12-14, 2003 . Sven Thiele achieved the best German placement in the -120 kg weight class in eleventh place. Radovan Valach finished ninth in the -96 kg weight class, the best Austrian.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	Dilshod Mansurov	Ghenadie Tulbea	Olexandr Sacharuk
-60 kg	Arif Abdullayev	Yandro Quintana	Song Jae-myung
-66 kg	Irbek Farniev	Serafim Barzakov	Kazuhiko Ikematsu
-74 kg	Buwaissar Saitijew	Murad Hajdarau	Gennady Laliev
-84 kg	Saschid Saschidow	Cael Sanderson	Revas Mindorashvili
-96 kg	Eldari Luka Kurtanidze	Alireza Heidari	Krassimir Kochev
-120 kg	Artur Taymazov	Kerry McCoy	Alireza Rezaei

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	3	0	0
2	Uzbekistan	2	0	0
3	Georgia	1	0	1
4th	Azerbaijan	1	0	0
5	United States	0	2	0
6th	Bulgaria	0	1	1
	Iran	0	1	1
8th	Cuba	0	1	0
	Moldova	0	1	0
	Belarus	0	1	0
11	Japan	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	1	1

Women

The women's competitions were held in New York City from September 12-14, 2003 . The United States had athletes on the podium in all seven competitions. The best Germans were Anita Schätzle in fifth in the -72 kg weight class, Stefanie Stüber in 8th place in the -59 kg weight class, Stéphanie Groß in ninth place in the -63 kg weight class and Alexandra Engelhardt in 10th place in the -51 kg weight class . Marina Gastl was the sixth most successful Austrian in the -72 kg weight class. The best Swiss woman was Nadine Tokar in ninth place in the -51 kg weight class.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Iryna Merleni	Patricia Miranda	Hui Li
-51 kg	Chiharu Icho	Natalia Karamchakova	Jennifer Wong
-55 kg	Saori Yoshida	Tina George	Natalja Golz
-59 kg	Seiko Yamamoto	Natalja Ivaschko	Sally Roberts
-63 kg	Kaori Icho	Sara McMann	Viola Yanik
-67 kg	Kristie Marano	Ewelina Pruszko	Svetlana Martinenko
-72 kg	Kyōko Hamaguchi	Toccara Montgomery	Wang Xu

Medal table

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