1997 World Wrestling Championships

1997 World Wrestling Championships
Freestyle
Host city	Krasnoyarsk, Russia
Dates	28–31 August 1997
Stadium	Yenisey Sports Palace
Greco-Roman
Host city	Wrocław, Poland
Dates	10–13 September 1997
Stadium	Hala Ludowa
Women
Host city	Clermont-Ferrand, France
Dates	10–12 July 1997
Stadium	Clermont-Ferrand Sports Hall
Champions
Freestyle	Russia
Greco-Roman	Russia
Women	Japan
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The following is the final results of the 1997 World Wrestling Championships. Men's Freestyle competition were held in Krasnoyarsk, Russia. Men's Greco-Roman competition were held in Wrocław, Poland and Women's competition were held in Clermont-Ferrand, France.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	5	3	2	10
2	Turkey	3	2	0	5
3	France	2	0	1	3
	Iran	2	0	1	3
5	United States	1	4	0	5
6	Cuba	1	1	2	4
7	Japan	1	1	1	3
8	Armenia	1	1	0	2
	South Korea	1	1	0	2
10	Poland	1	0	3	4
11	Canada	1	0	1	2
	China	1	0	1	2
	Kazakhstan	1	0	1	2
14	Finland	1	0	0	1
15	Germany	0	2	3	5
16	Hungary	0	2	0	2
17	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
18	Belarus	0	1	0	1
	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Norway	0	1	0	1
	Uzbekistan	0	1	0	1
22	Bulgaria	0	0	2	2
23	Georgia	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (25 entries)		22	22	22	66

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Russia	61	Russia	60	Japan	44
2	Ukraine	45	Turkey	38	France	41
3	Iran	40	Germany	31	United States	33
4	Turkey	30	Bulgaria	28	China	25
5	Cuba	30	Cuba	25	Germany	25
6	United States	29	Ukraine	25	Russia	24
7	Uzbekistan	25	Hungary	24	Norway	22
8	South Korea	20	Kazakhstan	22	Canada	21
9	Bulgaria	19	Poland	21	Ukraine	21
10	Kazakhstan	18	South Korea	18	Poland	18

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg details	Wilfredo García  Cuba	Jin Ju-dong  North Korea	Maulen Mamyrov  Kazakhstan
58 kg details	Mohammad Talaei  Iran	Ramil Islamov  Uzbekistan	Guivi Sissaouri  Canada
63 kg details	Abbas Hajkenari  Iran	Cary Kolat  United States	Magomed Azizov  Russia
69 kg details	Arayik Gevorgyan  Armenia	Hwang Sang-ho  South Korea	Zaza Zazirov  Ukraine
76 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev  Russia	Alexander Leipold  Germany	Miroslav Gochev  Bulgaria
85 kg details	Les Gutches  United States	Eldar Assanov  Ukraine	Alireza Heidari  Iran
97 kg details	Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov  Russia	Ahmet Doğu  Turkey	Eldar Kurtanidze  Georgia
130 kg details	Zekeriya Güçlü  Turkey	Alexis Rodríguez  Cuba	David Musulbes  Russia

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg details	Ercan Yıldız  Turkey	Vahan Juharyan  Armenia	Alfred Ter-Mkrtchyan  Germany
58 kg details	Yuriy Melnichenko  Kazakhstan	Rafik Simonyan  Russia	Armen Nazaryan  Bulgaria
63 kg details	Şeref Eroğlu  Turkey	Nikolay Monov  Russia	Włodzimierz Zawadzki  Poland
69 kg details	Son Sang-pil  South Korea	Aleksandr Tretyakov  Russia	Ender Memet  Romania
76 kg details	Marko Yli-Hannuksela  Finland	Tamás Berzicza  Hungary	Filiberto Azcuy  Cuba
85 kg details	Sergey Tsvir  Russia	Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey	Thomas Zander  Germany
97 kg details	Gogi Koguashvili  Russia	Anatoly Fedorenko  Belarus	Andrzej Wroński  Poland
130 kg details	Aleksandr Karelin  Russia	Mihály Deák-Bárdos  Hungary	Héctor Milián  Cuba

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
46 kg details	Zhong Xiue  China	Mette Barlie  Norway	Farah Touchi  France
51 kg details	Joanna Piasecka  Poland	Shannon Williams  United States	Miho Adachi  Japan
56 kg details	Anna Gomis  France	Mariko Shimizu  Japan	Sara Eriksson  Sweden
62 kg details	Lise Golliot  France	Stéphanie Groß  Germany	Małgorzata Bassa  Poland
68 kg details	Christine Nordhagen  Canada	Sandra Bacher  United States	Nina Englich  Germany
75 kg details	Kyoko Hamaguchi  Japan	Kristie Stenglein  United States	Liu Dongfeng  China

220 competitors from 45 nations participated.

227 competitors from 47 nations participated.

92 competitors from 21 nations participated.^[1]

• Complete results from Women's World Wrestling Championships
• Final Freestyle World Championships release

• UWW Database