World Wrestling Championships 2008

The Wrestling World Championships 2008 took place from October 11 to 13, 2008 in the Kokuritsu Yoyogi Kyōgijō in Tokyo . Because of the Olympic Games in the same year, only women's competitions were held. As in the 2004 Olympic Games , the women only competed in four weight classes , so it was decided to organize separate world championships. Japan celebrated athletes on the podium in all 7 competitions. In the -55 kg weight class, Anna Zwirydowska from Poland first won the bronze medal. However, because of a violation during the doping test, she was subsequently disqualified and the medal was awarded to the Canadian Britanee Laverdure .

Medalist

class	gold	silver	bronze
-48 kg	Clarissa Chun	Juyldiz Eshimova-Turtbayeva	Makiko Sakamato Guibei Su
-51 kg	Hitomi Sakamoto	Marina Markevich	Vanessa Boubryemm Julija Blahynja
-55 kg	Saori Yoshida	Tetiana Lazareva	Tatjana Padilla Britanee Laverdure
-59 kg	Ayako Shōda	Natalja Golz	Elwira Mursalowa Agata Pietrzyk
-63 kg	Mio Nishimaki	Lyubov Mikhailovna Volosova	Audrey Prieto Meng Lili
-67 kg	Martine Dugrenier	Mami Shinkai	Kateryna Burmistrowa Otschirbatyn Nasanburmaa
-72 kg	Stanka Slatewa	Yan Hong	Kyōko Hamaguchi Ohenewa Akuffo

Medal table

rank	country	gold	silver	bronze
1	Japan	4th	1	2
2	Canada	1	0	2
3	United States	1	0	1
4th	Bulgaria	1	0	0
5	Russia	0	2	0
6th	People's Republic of China	0	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	2
8th	Kazakhstan	0	1	0
	Belarus	0	1	0
10	France	0	0	2
11	Azerbaijan	0	0	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1
	Poland	0	0	1

Scoring (Top 10)

rank	country	Points
1	Japan	65
2	Canada	42
3	Russia	40
4th	Ukraine	31
	United States	31
6th	People's Republic of China	29
7th	Mongolia	23
8th	Belarus	18th
9	France	17th
10	Azerbaijan	14th

Web links

• Complete medal table (women) at the Institute for Applied Training Science