World Wrestling Championships 2005

The World Wrestling Championships 2005 took place from September 26th to October 2nd, 2005 in the Papp László Budapest Sportaréna in Budapest . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into seven weight classes. For the first time, two bronze medals were awarded per competition at world championships. 734 athletes from 98 nations announced their participation.

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from September 30th to October 2nd, 2005.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	Hamid Soryan Reihanpour	Park Eun-chul	István Majoros Jermek Köketow
-60 kg	Poor Nazarjan	Ali Ashkani Agboloag	Eusebiu Diaconu Petr Švehla
-66 kg	Nikolai Gergow	Kim Min-chul	Alain Milián Kim Kum-chol
-74 kg	Waiting Samurgashev	Mark Overgaard Madsen	Marko Yli-Hannuksela Konstantin Schneider
-84 kg	Alim Selimau	Alexei Mishin	Sándor István Bárdosi Nazmi Avluca
-96 kg	Hamza Yerlikaya	Lajos Virág	Wassili Teplouchow Justin Ruiz
-120 kg	Mijaín López	Mihály Deák Bárdos	Sjarhej Arzjuchin Yekta Yılmaz Gül

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Bulgaria	2	0	0
2	Russia	1	1	1
3	Iran	1	1	0
4th	Turkey	1	0	2
5	Cuba	1	0	1
	Belarus	1	0	1
7th	Hungary	0	2	2
8th	South Korea	0	2	0
9	Denmark	0	1	0
10	Germany	0	0	1
	Finland	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1
	North Korea	0	0	1
	Romania	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1
	United States	0	0	1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from September 26th to 28th, 2005.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	Dilshod Mansurov	Radoslav Velikov	Jon Hyon-guk Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar
-60 kg	Alan Dudaev	Yandro Quintana	Morad Mohammadi Martin Berberjan
-66 kg	Makhach Murtasaliev	Serafim Barzakov	Geandry Garzón Caballero Otar Tushishvili
-74 kg	Buwaissar Saitijew	Árpád knight	Nikolaj Paslar Joe E. Williams
-84 kg	Revas Mindorashvili	Yoel Romero Palacio	Taras Danko Magomed Kuruglijew
-96 kg	Khadzhimurad Gazalov	Eldari Luka Kurtanidze	Wassyl Tysmenezkyj Aleksei Krupnjakow
-120 kg	Aydın Polatçı	Alexis Rodríguez Valera	Ottó Aubéli Tolly Thompson

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	4th	0	0
2	Georgia	1	1	1
3	Turkey	1	0	0
	Uzbekistan	1	0	0
5	Cuba	0	3	1
6th	Bulgaria	0	2	1
7th	Hungary	0	1	1
8th	Ukraine	0	0	2
	United States	0	0	2
10	Armenia	0	0	1
	Iran	0	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1
	North Korea	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place from September 28-30, 2005. The wrestlers from Japan secured medals in six of the seven competitions. Only Eri Sakamoto could not place in the medal ranks with a seventh place in the weight class -67 kg.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Xuecheng Ren	Iryna Merleni	Carol Huynh Makiko Sakamoto
-51 kg	Hitomi Sakamoto	Vanessa Boubryemm	Tsogtbadsaryn Enkhjargal Juling Wen
-55 kg	Saori Yoshida	Lihui Su	Natalja Golz Tonya Verbeek
-59 kg	Ayako Shōda	Marianna Sastin	Sally Roberts Lene Aanes
-63 kg	Kaori Icho	Jing Ruixue	Sara McMann Wolha Chilko
-67 kg	Meng Lili	Martine Dugrenier	Jelena Perepelkina Catherine Downing
-72 kg	Iris Smith	Kyōko Hamaguchi	Anita Schätzle Switlana Sajenko

Medal table

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FILA update from World Championships , accessed on December 24, 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