1996 Asian Wrestling Championships

1996 Asian Wrestling Championships
Host city	Xiaoshan, China
Dates	4–10 April 1996
Champions
Freestyle	Iran
Greco-Roman	South Korea
Women	Japan
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The 1996 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Xiaoshan, China. The event took place from April 4 to April 10, 1996. It acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 1996 Summer Olympics wrestling tournament.

The first women's tournament was an open competition, an American wrestler Tricia Saunders was the only non-Asian wrestler in competition and won the gold.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	8	5	5	18
2	South Korea	5	5	1	11
3	Kazakhstan	4	2	3	9
4	Iran	3	1	6	10
5	Uzbekistan	3	1	2	6
6	China	2	5	3	10
7	North Korea	2	1	0	3
8	Syria	1	0	0	1
–	United States	1	0	0	1
9	Chinese Taipei	0	5	3	8
10	Mongolia	0	3	0	3
11	Turkmenistan	0	1	0	1
12	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	3	3
13	Philippines	0	0	2	2
Totals (13 entries)		29	29	28	86

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	78	South Korea	83	Japan	87
2	South Korea	70	China	71	Chinese Taipei	76
3	Japan	66	Kazakhstan	70	China	45
4	Uzbekistan	59	Japan	68	Philippines	22
5	Mongolia	51	Uzbekistan		Kazakhstan	15

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Kim Il   North Korea	Luvsan-Ishiin Sergelenbaatar   Mongolia	Vladimir Torgovkin   Kyrgyzstan
52 kg	Adkhamjon Achilov   Uzbekistan	Hideo Sasayama   Japan	Behnam Tayyebi   Iran
57 kg	Ri Yong-sam   North Korea	Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar   Mongolia	Mohammad Talaei   Iran
62 kg	Takahiro Wada   Japan	Jang Jae-sung   South Korea	Abbas Hajkenari   Iran
68 kg	Boris Budayev   Uzbekistan	Hwang Sang-ho   South Korea	Amir Tavakkolian   Iran
74 kg	Park Jang-soon   South Korea	Magomed Kurugliyev   Kazakhstan	Issa Momeni   Iran
82 kg	Ruslan Khinchagov   Uzbekistan	Yang Hyung-mo   South Korea	Alireza Heidari   Iran
90 kg	Rasoul Khadem   Iran	Islam Bayramukov   Kazakhstan	Tatsuo Kawai   Japan
100 kg	Abbas Jadidi   Iran	Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar   Mongolia	Konstantin Aleksandrov   Kyrgyzstan
130 kg	Ebrahim Mehraban   Iran	Feng Aigang   China	Igor Klimov   Kazakhstan

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sim Kwon-ho   South Korea	Kang Yong-gyun   North Korea	Hiroshi Kado   Japan
52 kg	Khaled Al-Faraj   Syria	Ha Tae-yeon   South Korea	Shamsiddin Khudoyberdiev   Uzbekistan
57 kg	Yuriy Melnichenko   Kazakhstan	Kenkichi Nishimi   Japan	Sheng Zetian   China
62 kg	Choi Sang-sun   South Korea	Ahad Pazaj   Iran	Hu Guohong   China
68 kg	Son Sang-pil   South Korea	Grigori Pulyaev   Uzbekistan	Yasushi Miyake   Japan
74 kg	Kim Jin-soo   South Korea	Takamitsu Katayama   Japan	Bakhtiyar Baiseitov   Kazakhstan
82 kg	Daulet Turlykhanov   Kazakhstan	Park Myung-suk   South Korea	Raatbek Sanatbayev   Kyrgyzstan
90 kg	Sergey Matviyenko   Kazakhstan	Rozy Rejepow   Turkmenistan	Eom Jin-han   South Korea
100 kg	Anatoly Fedorenko   Kazakhstan	Ba Yanchuan   China	Takashi Nonomura   Japan
130 kg	Liu Guoke   China	Kenichi Suzuki   Japan	Shermukhammad Kuziev   Uzbekistan

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
44 kg	Shoko Yoshimura   Japan	Chiu Jui-fen   Chinese Taipei	Cristina Villanueva   Philippines
47 kg	Miho Adachi   Japan	Zhong Xiue   China	Chang Wen-hsia   Chinese Taipei
50 kg	Tricia Saunders   United States	Kozue Kimura   Japan	Liu Hongmei   China
53 kg	Ryoko Sakae   Japan	Huang Chiu-yueh   Chinese Taipei	Gemma Silverio   Philippines
57 kg	Mariko Shimizu   Japan	Huang Chia-chi   Chinese Taipei	Svetlana Volkova   Kazakhstan
61 kg	Mikiko Miyazaki   Japan	Kong Yan   China	Huang Wan-ling   Chinese Taipei
65 kg	Yayoi Urano   Japan	Wang Chaoli   China	Wu Huei-li   Chinese Taipei
70 kg	Kyoko Hamaguchi   Japan	Lee Yen-hiu   Chinese Taipei	None awarded
75 kg	Liu Dongfeng   China	Sha Ling-li   Chinese Taipei	Reiko Sumiya   Japan

References

• UWW Database