2008 World Wrestling Championships

2008 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	11–13 October 2008
Stadium	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Champions
Women	Japan
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The 2008 Women's World Wrestling Championships were held at the Yoyogi National Gymnasium in Tokyo, Japan. The event took place from October 11 to October 13, 2008. The competition only featured wrestling in the Female Freestyle event. Traditionally, Wrestling World Championships are not held in Olympic years, but in 2008 a female championship was held because the 2008 Summer Olympics included only four of the seven FILA weight classes for females. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	4	1	2	7
2	Canada	1	0	2	3
3	United States	1	0	1	2
4	Bulgaria	1	0	0	1
5	Russia	0	2	0	2
6	China	0	1	2	3
	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
8	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	Kazakhstan	0	1	0	1
10	France	0	0	2	2
11	Azerbaijan	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
Totals (13 entries)		7	7	14	28

Team ranking

Rank	Women's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Japan	65
2	Canada	42
3	Russia	40
4	United States	31
5	Ukraine	31
6	China	29
7	Mongolia	23
8	Belarus	18
9	France	17
10	Azerbaijan	14

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Clarissa Chun   United States	Zhuldyz Eshimova   Kazakhstan	Makiko Sakamoto   Japan
			Su Guibei   China
51 kg details	Hitomi Sakamoto   Japan	Maryna Markevich   Belarus	Vanessa Boubryemm   France
			Yuliya Blahinya   Ukraine
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida   Japan	Tetyana Lazareva   Ukraine	Brittanee Laverdure   Canada
			Tatiana Suarez   United States
59 kg details	Ayako Shoda   Japan	Natalia Golts   Russia	Elvira Mursalova   Azerbaijan
			Agata Pietrzyk   Poland
63 kg details	Mio Nishimaki   Japan	Lubov Volosova   Russia	Meng Lili   China
			Audrey Prieto   France
67 kg details	Martine Dugrenier   Canada	Mami Shinkai   Japan	Kateryna Burmistrova   Ukraine
			Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa   Mongolia
72 kg details	Stanka Zlateva   Bulgaria	Hong Yan   China	Kyoko Hamaguchi   Japan
			Ohenewa Akuffo   Canada

Participating nations

139 competitors from 41 nations participated.

•   Australia (1)
•   Austria (4)
•   Azerbaijan (3)
•   Belarus (7)
•   Brazil (1)
•   Bulgaria (2)
•   Cameroon (1)
•   Canada (7)
•   China (6)
•   Chinese Taipei (5)
•   Congo DR (1)
•   Czech Republic (1)
•   France (3)
•   Great Britain (1)
•   Greece (4)
•   Guinea-Bissau (1)
•   Hungary (1)
•   India (7)
•   Italy (4)
•   Japan (7)
•   Kazakhstan (4)
•   Kyrgyzstan (3)
•   Madagascar (1)
•   Mexico (1)
•   Moldova (2)
•   Mongolia (7)
•   Philippines (2)
•   Poland (6)
•   Puerto Rico (1)
•   Romania (3)
•   Russia (7)
•   Senegal (1)
•   Slovakia (1)
•   South Korea (2)
•   Switzerland (1)
•   Turkey (5)
•   Ukraine (7)
•   United States (7)
•   Uzbekistan (4)
•   Venezuela (4)
•   Vietnam (3)

See also

• Wrestling at the 2008 Summer Olympics

References

1. "TheMat.com - The Ultimate Source of Real Wrestling!". Themat.com. Archived from the original on November 21, 2008. Retrieved 2008-11-06.

External links

• Official website ^{[ usurped ]}