2006 World Wrestling Championships

2006 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Guangzhou, China
Dates	25 September – 1 October 2006
Stadium	Tianhe Gymnasium
Champions
Freestyle	Russia
Greco-Roman	Turkey
Women	Japan
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The 2006 World Wrestling Championships were held at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China. The event took place from September 25 to October 1, 2006.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	5	1	2	8
2	Russia	3	2	6	11
3	China	2	3	0	5
4	United States	2	1	6	9
5	Iran	2	1	3	6
6	Ukraine	2	0	2	4
7	Bulgaria	2	0	1	3
8	Uzbekistan	1	0	2	3
9	Egypt	1	0	0	1
	Estonia	1	0	0	1
11	Georgia	0	4	1	5
12	Canada	0	2	0	2
13	Turkey	0	1	3	4
14	Belarus	0	1	2	3
	Cuba	0	1	2	3
16	Azerbaijan	0	1	1	2
17	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	1	0	1
20	Poland	0	0	2	2
	Sweden	0	0	2	2
22	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 entries)		21	21	42	84

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Russia	51	Turkey	39	Japan	67
2	Iran	44	Russia	34	China	41
3	United States	35	United States	34	Canada	30
4	Ukraine	33	Georgia	29	Russia	28
5	Uzbekistan	32	Iran	27	Belarus	24
6	Georgia	32	Ukraine	26	Germany	23
7	Belarus	23	Bulgaria	18	United States	22
8	Bulgaria	22	Hungary	16	Ukraine	22
9	Cuba	18	Finland	15	Poland   Sweden	19
10	Azerbaijan	16	Belarus	15

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Radoslav Velikov   Bulgaria	Besik Kudukhov   Russia	Namig Abdullayev   Azerbaijan
			Sammie Henson   United States
60 kg details	Morad Mohammadi   Iran	Mike Zadick   United States	Noriyuki Takatsuka   Japan
			Mavlet Batirov   Russia
66 kg details	Bill Zadick   United States	Otar Tushishvili   Georgia	Geandry Garzón   Cuba
			Andriy Stadnik   Ukraine
74 kg details	Ibragim Aldatov   Ukraine	Ali Asghar Bazri   Iran	Soslan Tigiev   Uzbekistan
			Donny Pritzlaff   United States
84 kg details	Sazhid Sazhidov   Russia	Revaz Mindorashvili   Georgia	Reza Yazdani   Iran
			Zaurbek Sokhiev   Uzbekistan
96 kg details	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov   Russia	Giorgi Gogshelidze   Georgia	Michel Batista   Cuba
			Ruslan Sheikhau   Belarus
120 kg details	Artur Taymazov   Uzbekistan	Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov   Russia	Fardin Masoumi   Iran
			Ruslan Basiev   Armenia

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Hamid Sourian   Iran	Rovshan Bayramov   Azerbaijan	Lindsey Durlacher   United States
			Park Eun-chul   South Korea
60 kg details	Joe Warren   United States	David Bedinadze   Georgia	Bünyamin Emik   Turkey
			Vyacheslav Dzhaste   Russia
66 kg details	Li Yanyan   China	Kanatbek Begaliev   Kyrgyzstan	Sergey Kovalenko   Russia
			Justin Lester   United States
74 kg details	Volodymyr Shatskykh   Ukraine	Marko Yli-Hannuksela   Finland	Manuchar Kvirkvelia   Georgia
			Mark Madsen   Denmark
84 kg details	Mohamed Abdelfatah   Egypt	Nazmi Avluca   Turkey	Aleksey Mishin   Russia
			Saman Tahmasebi   Iran
96 kg details	Heiki Nabi   Estonia	Marek Švec   Czech Republic	Kaloyan Dinchev   Bulgaria
			Hamza Yerlikaya   Turkey
120 kg details	Khasan Baroev   Russia	Mijaín López   Cuba	Siarhei Artsiukhin   Belarus
			İsmail Güzel   Turkey

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Chiharu Icho   Japan	Ren Xuecheng   China	Iwona Sadowska   Poland
			Francine De Paola   Italy
51 kg details	Hitomi Sakamoto   Japan	Lyndsay Belisle   Canada	Patricia Miranda   United States
			Alena Adashinskaya   Russia
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida   Japan	Mariya Yahorava   Belarus	Minerva Montero   Spain
			Ida-Theres Karlsson   Sweden
59 kg details	Ayako Shoda   Japan	Su Lihui   China	Alka Tomar   India
			Nataliya Synyshyn   Ukraine
63 kg details	Kaori Icho   Japan	Xu Haiyan   China	Monika Rogien   Poland
			Helena Allandi   Sweden
67 kg details	Jing Ruixue   China	Martine Dugrenier   Canada	Maria Müller   Germany
			Eri Sakamoto   Japan
72 kg details	Stanka Zlateva   Bulgaria	Kyoko Hamaguchi   Japan	Elena Perepelkina   Russia
			Kristie Marano   United States

Participating nations

596 competitors from 75 nations participated.

•   Albania (1)
•   Armenia (12)
•   Australia (6)
•   Austria (2)
•   Azerbaijan (9)
•   Belarus (21)
•   Brazil (2)
•   Bulgaria (11)
•   Cambodia (2)
•   Canada (15)
•   Chile (1)
•   China (21)
•   Chinese Taipei (7)
•   Colombia (7)
•   Croatia (2)
•   Cuba (10)
•   Czech Republic (5)
•   Denmark (3)
•   Dominican Republic (2)
•   Egypt (7)
•   Estonia (4)
•   Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•   Finland (7)
•   France (9)
•   Georgia (14)
•   Germany (16)
•   Great Britain (2)
•   Greece (14)
•   Guam (1)
•   Guatemala (2)
•   Hungary (14)
•   India (17)
•   Iran (14)
•   Ireland (1)
•   Israel (5)
•   Italy (8)
•   Ivory Coast (3)
•   Japan (21)
•   Kazakhstan (19)
•   Kyrgyzstan (10)
•   Latvia (2)
•   Lithuania (6)
•   Macedonia (3)
•   Marshall Islands (3)
•   Mexico (2)
•   Moldova (4)
•   Mongolia (14)
•   Netherlands (3)
•   New Zealand (2)
•   Nigeria (2)
•   North Korea (7)
•   Norway (5)
•   Palau (2)
•   Philippines (9)
•   Poland (12)
•   Portugal (1)
•   Romania (11)
•   Russia (20)
•   Serbia and Montenegro (2)
•   Slovakia (4)
•   Slovenia (2)
•   South Africa (3)
•   South Korea (21)
•   Spain (16)
•   Sweden (9)
•   Switzerland (5)
•   Thailand (3)
•   Turkey (15)
•   Uganda (1)
•   Ukraine (21)
•   United Arab Emirates (2)
•   United States (21)
•   Uzbekistan (13)
•   Venezuela (9)
•   Vietnam (13)

References

• Schedule ^{[ usurped ]}
• Themat.com

External links

• Official website ^{[ usurped ]}