1998 World Wrestling Championships
Freestyle
Host city	Tehran, Iran
Dates	8–11 September 1998
Stadium	Azadi Indoor Stadium
Greco-Roman
Host city	Gävle, Sweden
Dates	27–30 August 1998
Stadium	Gavlerinken
Women
Host city	Poznań, Poland
Dates	8–10 October 1998
Stadium	Hala Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Iran
Greco-Roman	Russia
Women	Russia
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The following is the final results of the 1998 World Wrestling Championships. Men's Freestyle competition were held in Tehran, Iran. Men's Greco-Roman competition were held in Gävle, Sweden and Women's competition were held in Poznań, Poland.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	5	0	5	10
2	Iran	3	2	1	6
3	United States	2	2	3	7
4	South Korea	2	1	2	5
5	Japan	2	1	0	3
6	Kazakhstan	2	0	0	2
7	Cuba	1	1	1	3
8	Norway	1	1	0	2
9	Bulgaria	1	0	1	2
	Canada	1	0	1	2
11	Armenia	1	0	0	1
	Austria	1	0	0	1
13	Turkey	0	2	1	3
14	Hungary	0	2	0	2
15	Sweden	0	1	2	3
16	Germany	0	1	1	2
	Poland	0	1	1	2
	Ukraine	0	1	1	2
19	Azerbaijan	0	1	0	1
	China	0	1	0	1
	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
	Macedonia	0	1	0	1
	Romania	0	1	0	1
25	Israel	0	0	1	1
	Syria	0	0	1	1
Totals (26 entries)		22	22	22	66

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	63	Russia	66	Russia	44
2	Russia	54	South Korea	36	Japan	38
3	United States	43	Turkey	34	United States	34
4	Ukraine	37	Kazakhstan	27	Canada	29
5	South Korea	28	Hungary	26	Norway	25
6	Poland	22	Bulgaria	26	Germany	23
7	Cuba	18	Romania	22	Ukraine	23
8	Germany	18	Cuba	19	Poland	22
9	Armenia	15	Ukraine	19	Sweden	21
10	Turkey	15	Poland	18	Austria	20

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg details	Sammie Henson   United States	Namig Abdullayev   Azerbaijan	Gholamreza Mohammadi   Iran
58 kg details	Alireza Dabir   Iran	Harun Doğan   Turkey	Guivi Sissaouri   Canada
63 kg details	Serafim Barzakov   Bulgaria	Abbas Hajkenari   Iran	Cary Kolat   United States
69 kg details	Arayik Gevorgyan   Armenia	Zaza Zazirov   Ukraine	Lincoln McIlravy   United States
76 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev   Russia	Moon Eui-jae   South Korea	Alexander Leipold   Germany
85 kg details	Alireza Heidari   Iran	Magomed Ibragimov   Macedonia	Yoel Romero   Cuba
97 kg details	Abbas Jadidi   Iran	Marek Garmulewicz   Poland	Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov   Russia
130 kg details	Alexis Rodríguez   Cuba	Rasoul Khadem   Iran	Andrey Shumilin   Russia

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg details	Sim Kwon-ho   South Korea	Marian Sandu   Romania	Khaled Al-Faraj   Syria
58 kg details	Kim In-sub   South Korea	Sheng Zetian   China	Armen Nazaryan   Bulgaria
63 kg details	Mkhitar Manukyan   Kazakhstan	Şeref Eroğlu   Turkey	Choi Sang-sun   South Korea
69 kg details	Aleksandr Tretyakov   Russia	Csaba Hirbik   Hungary	Son Sang-pil   South Korea
76 kg details	Bakhtiyar Baiseitov   Kazakhstan	Filiberto Azcuy   Cuba	Nazmi Avluca   Turkey
85 kg details	Aleksandr Menshchikov   Russia	János Kismoni   Hungary	Martin Lidberg   Sweden
97 kg details	Gogi Koguashvili   Russia	Marek Švec   Czech Republic	Davyd Saldadze   Ukraine
130 kg details	Aleksandr Karelin   Russia	Matt Ghaffari   United States	Yuri Evseichik   Israel

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
46 kg details	Tricia Saunders   United States	Miyu Yamamoto   Japan	Inga Karamchakova   Russia
51 kg details	Atsuko Shinomura   Japan	Ida Hellström   Sweden	Elena Egoshina   Russia
56 kg details	Gudrun Høie   Norway	Anna Gomis   France	Sara Eriksson   Sweden
62 kg details	Nikola Hartmann   Austria	Lene Aanes   Norway	Natalia Vinogradova   Russia
68 kg details	Christine Nordhagen   Canada	Stéphanie Groß   Germany	Sandra Bacher   United States
75 kg details	Kyoko Hamaguchi   Japan	Kristie Stenglein   United States	Edyta Witkowska   Poland

Participating nations

Men's freestyle

204 competitors from 40 nations participated.

Men's Greco-Roman

220 competitors from 49 nations participated.

Women's freestyle

86 competitors from 21 nations participated. ^[1]

References

External links

• UWW Database