2000 World Wrestling Championships

2000 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Dates	1–3 September 2000
Stadium	Universiada Hall
Champions
Women	Japan
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The 2000 Women's World Wrestling Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 1 to 3 September 2000.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	2	1	2	5
2	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
	United States	1	1	0	2
4	Canada	1	0	2	3
5	Austria	1	0	0	1
6	Russia	0	2	0	2
7	Poland	0	1	0	1
8	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	6	18

Team ranking

Rank	Women's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Japan	48
2	Russia	34
3	Canada	31
4	Ukraine	27
5	United States	25
6	Germany	20
7	Poland	19
8	Sweden	18
9	France	13
10	Bulgaria	13

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
46 kg details	Iryna Melnik   Ukraine	Inga Karamchakova   Russia	Carol Huynh   Canada
51 kg details	Hitomi Sakamoto   Japan	Patricia Miranda   United States	Ida Hellström   Sweden
56 kg details	Seiko Yamamoto   Japan	Tetyana Lazareva   Ukraine	Jennifer Ryz   Canada
62 kg details	Nikola Hartmann   Austria	Rena Iwama   Japan	Stéphanie Groß   Germany
68 kg details	Kristie Marano   United States	Anna Shamova   Russia	Tomoe Miyamoto   Japan
75 kg details	Christine Nordhagen   Canada	Edyta Witkowska   Poland	Kyoko Hamaguchi   Japan

Participating nations

90 competitors from 24 nations participated.

•   Austria (1)
•   Bulgaria (6)
•   Canada (6)
•   Chinese Taipei (5)
•   Czech Republic (3)
•   El Salvador (3)
•   Finland (1)
•   France (3)
•   Germany (5)
•   Greece (3)
•   Italy (1)
•   Japan (6)
•   Mexico (2)
•   Norway (1)
•   Poland (4)
•   Puerto Rico (1)
•   Russia (6)
•   Spain (4)
•   Sweden (4)
•   Tunisia (2)
•   Turkey (6)
•   Ukraine (6)
•   United States (6)
•   Venezuela (5)

See also

• Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

References

• Results summary
• Complete results

External links

• UWW Database