Wrestling at the 1998 Asian Games

Wrestling at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Gymnasium 1
Dates	12–18 December 1998
Competitors	175 from 20 nations
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Wrestling was one of the many sports which was held at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 12 and 18 December 1998. The competition took place at Thammasat Gymnasium 1.

Schedule

P

Preliminary rounds

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	12th Sat	13th Sun		14th Mon		15th Tue	16th Wed	17th Thu		18th Fri
Men's freestyle 54 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 58 kg								P		P	F
Men's freestyle 63 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 69 kg								P		P	F
Men's freestyle 76 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 85 kg								P		P	F
Men's freestyle 97 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 130 kg								P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 54 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 58 kg		P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 69 kg		P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 76 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg		P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 97 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg		P		P	F

Medalists

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg details	Jin Ju-dong   North Korea	Behnam Tayyebi   Iran	Maulen Mamyrov   Kazakhstan
58 kg details	Ri Yong-sam   North Korea	Oyuunbilegiin Pürevbaatar   Mongolia	Mohammad Talaei   Iran
63 kg details	Jang Jae-sung   South Korea	Ramil Islamov   Uzbekistan	Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar   Mongolia
69 kg details	Amir Tavakkolian   Iran	Ahmad Al-Osta   Syria	Ryusaburo Katsu   Japan
76 kg details	Moon Eui-jae   South Korea	Kenji Koshiba   Japan	Ruslan Veliyev   Kazakhstan
85 kg details	Alireza Heidari   Iran	Rasul Katinovasov   Uzbekistan	Magomed Kurugliyev   Kazakhstan
97 kg details	Abbas Jadidi   Iran	Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar   Mongolia	Soslan Fraev   Uzbekistan
130 kg details	Alireza Rezaei   Iran	Georgy Kaysinov   Uzbekistan	Gelegjamtsyn Ösökhbayar   Mongolia

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg details	Sim Kwon-ho   South Korea	Kang Yong-gyun   North Korea	Wang Hui   China
58 kg details	Kim In-sub   South Korea	Asliddin Khudoyberdiev   Uzbekistan	Sheng Zetian   China
63 kg details	Choi Sang-sun   South Korea	Bakhodir Kurbanov   Uzbekistan	Yi Shanjun   China
69 kg details	Son Sang-pil   South Korea	Mkhitar Manukyan   Kazakhstan	Grigori Pulyaev   Uzbekistan
76 kg details	Bakhtiyar Baiseitov   Kazakhstan	Takamitsu Katayama   Japan	Kim Jung-sub   South Korea
85 kg details	Park Myung-suk   South Korea	Raatbek Sanatbayev   Kyrgyzstan	Hidekazu Yokoyama   Japan
97 kg details	Sergey Matviyenko   Kazakhstan	Mohammad Al-Haiek   Syria	Park Woo   South Korea
130 kg details	Mehdi Sabzali   Iran	Shermukhammad Kuziev   Uzbekistan	Zhao Hailin   China

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea  (KOR)	7	0	2	9
2	Iran  (IRI)	5	1	1	7
3	Kazakhstan  (KAZ)	2	1	3	6
4	North Korea  (PRK)	2	1	0	3
5	Uzbekistan  (UZB)	0	6	2	8
6	Japan  (JPN)	0	2	2	4
	Mongolia  (MGL)	0	2	2	4
8	Syria  (SYR)	0	2	0	2
9	Kyrgyzstan  (KGZ)	0	1	0	1
10	China  (CHN)	0	0	4	4
Totals (10 entries)		16	16	16	48

Participating nations

A total of 175 athletes from 20 nations competed in wrestling at the 1998 Asian Games:

•   China  (10)
•   Chinese Taipei  (2)
•   India  (6)
•   Iran  (16)
•   Japan  (16)
•   Kazakhstan  (16)
•   Kyrgyzstan  (12)
•   Lebanon  (3)
•   Mongolia  (9)
•   Nepal  (3)
•   North Korea  (7)
•   Pakistan  (2)
•   Philippines  (6)
•   South Korea  (16)
•   Syria  (10)
•   Thailand  (14)
•   Turkmenistan  (3)
•   Uzbekistan  (16)
•   Vietnam  (6)
•   Yemen  (2)

References

• Results
• FILA Database