2008 World Wrestling Championships

2008 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Tokyo, Japan
Dates	11–13 October 2008
Stadium	Yoyogi National Gymnasium
Champions
Women	Japan

The 2008 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

Women's freestyle

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