World Wrestling Championships 2007

The 2007 World Wrestling Championships took place in Baku from September 17 to 23, 2007 . It was wrestled in both Greco-Roman and free styles . The wrestlers were divided into seven weight classes. A total of 613 wrestlers took part, 300 of them in Greco-Roman and 313 in freestyle, as well as 198 wrestlers from a total of 96 nations.

German participants

The DRB sent a contingent of 21 wrestlers who achieved the following placements:

Greco-Roman:

• under 55 kg: Florian Crusius (21.),
• under 60 kg: Jurij Kohl (20th),
• under 66 kg: Marcus Thätner (30.),
• under 74 kg: Konstantin Schneider (8th),
• under 84 kg: Jan Fischer (9th),
• under 96 kg: Mirko Englich (25.)
• under 120 kg: Nico Schmidt (23.)

Freestyle:

• under 55 kg: Marcel Ewald (35.),
• under 60 kg: Alexander Kropf (36th),
• under 66 kg: Martin Daum (14th),
• under 74 kg: Andrej Shyyka (39.),
• under 84 kg: David Bichinashvili (7th),
• under 96 kg: Stefan Kehrer (8th),
• under 120 kg: Martin Siddiqui (20.)

Women:

• under 48 kg: Brigitte Wagner (10th),
• under 51 kg: Alexandra Engelhardt (5th),
• under 55 kg: Jessica Bechtel (22nd),
• under 59 kg: Stéphanie Groß (2nd),
• under 63 kg: Stefanie Stüber (17th),
• under 67 kg: Maria Müller (14th),
• under 72 kg: Anita Schätzle (30.)

Austrian participants

The ÖRSV sent a squad with four wrestlers who achieved the following placements:

Greco-Roman:

• under 60 kg: Hannes Lienbacher (17.)
• under 84 kg: Hannes Haring (15.)

Women:

• under 63 kg: Nikola Hartmann-Dünser (9th),
• under 72 kg: Marina Gastl (13.)

Swiss participants

The SARV sent a squad with ten wrestlers who achieved the following placements:

Greco-Roman:

• under 55 kg: Thomas Wild (34.),
• under 74 kg: Reto Bucher (11.),
• under 84 kg: Mario Baumgartner (45.)

Freestyle:

• under 60 kg: Pius Zberg (43.),
• under 66 kg: Gregory Sarassin (34.),
• under 84 kg: Thomas Bucheli (wrestler) (38th),
• under 96 kg: Gregory Martinetti (21st),
• under 120 kg: Mirko Silian (32.)

Women:

• under 55 kg: Nadine Tokar (26.),
• under 63 kg: Karin Stingelin (35.)

Greco-Roman

The Greco-Roman style competitions took place from September 17th to 19th, 2007.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	Hamid Soryan Reihanpour	Park Eun-chul	Nasir Mankijew Kristijan Fris
-60 kg	Dawit Bedinadze	Makoto Sasamoto	Jung Ji-hyun Eusebiu Diaconu
-66 kg	Frid Mansurov	Steeve Guénot	Nikolai Gergow Justin Harry Lester
-74 kg	Yawor Janakiev	Mark Overgaard Madsen	Christophe Guénot Valdemaras Venckaitis
-84 kg	Alexei Mishin	Bradley Vering	Saman Tahmasebi Badri Chassaia
-96 kg	Ramas Nosadze	Mindaugas Ezerskis	Ghasem Rezaei Marek Švec
-120 kg	Mijaín López	Hassan Baroev	Dremiel Byers Yuri Patrikeev

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Georgia	2	0	1
2	Russia	1	1	1
3	Iran	1	0	2
4th	Bulgaria	1	0	1
5	Azerbaijan	1	0	0
	Cuba	1	0	0
7th	United States	0	1	2
8th	France	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	1	1
11	Denmark	0	1	0
	Japan	0	1	0
13	Armenia	0	0	1
	Romania	0	0	1
	Serbia	0	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1

Freestyle

The freestyle competitions took place from September 19-21, 2007. Russia celebrated athletes on the podium in all 7 competitions.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-55 kg	Bessik Kuduchow	Bajaraagiin Naranbaatar	Ryswan Hadschyjeu Andy Moreno Gonzalez
-60 kg	Mawlet Batirov	Anatoly Guidea	Bazaar Basargurujew Sahit Prizreni
-66 kg	Ramazan Şahin	Geandry Garzón Caballero	Otar Tushishvili Irbek Farniev
-74 kg	Makhach Murtasaliev	Ibragim Aldatov	Tschamsulwara Tschamsulwarajew Iván Fundora
-84 kg	Georgi Ketojew	Yusup Abdussalomov	Reza Yazdani Sajurbek Sochiev
-96 kg	Khadzhimurad Gazalov	Saeid Ebrahimi	Qurbon Qurbonov Daniel Cormier
-120 kg	Biljal Machov	Alexis Rodríguez Valera	Wadym Tassoew Artur Taymazov

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Russia	6th	0	1
2	Turkey	1	0	0
3	Cuba	0	2	2
4th	Iran	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	1	1
6th	Bulgaria	0	1	0
	Mongolia	0	1	0
	Tajikistan	0	1	0
9	Uzbekistan	0	0	3
10	Albania	0	0	1
	Azerbaijan	0	0	1
	Georgia	0	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1
	United States	0	0	1
	Belarus	0	0	1

Women

The women's competitions took place from September 21 to 23, 2007.

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Chiharu Icho	Iryna Merleni	Mayelis Caripa Castillo Li Xiaomei
-51 kg	Hitomi Sakamoto	Xuecheng Ren	Anne Deluntsch Erica Sharp
-55 kg	Saori Yoshida	Ida-Theres Karlsson	Natalja Golz Olga Smirnova
-59 kg	Audrey Prieto	Stéphanie Groß	Dorjiin Narmandach Natalija Synyshyn
-63 kg	Kaori Icho	Jelena Schalygina	Sara McMann Monika Michalik-Rogień
-67 kg	Jing Ruixue	Martine Dugrenier	Catherine Downing Natalia Kuksina
-72 kg	Stanka Slatewa	Kristie Marano	Olga Schanibekowa Güzäl Mannürowa

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	4th	0	0
2	People's Republic of China	1	1	1
3	France	1	0	1
4th	Bulgaria	1	0	0
5	Kazakhstan	0	1	2
	United States	0	1	2
7th	Canada	0	1	1
	Ukraine	0	1	1
9	Germany	0	1	0
	Sweden	0	1	0
11	Russia	0	0	3
12	Mongolia	0	0	1
	Poland	0	0	1
	Venezuela	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