1996 Asian Wrestling Championships

The 1996 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Xiaoshan, China. The event took place from April 4 to April 10, 1996. It acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 1996 Summer Olympics wrestling tournament.

1996 Asian Championships
Host city Xiaoshan, China
Dates4–10 April
Champions
Freestyle Iran
Greco-Roman South Korea
Women Japan

The first women's tournament was an open competition, an American wrestler Tricia Saunders was the only non-Asian wrestler in competition and won the gold.

Medal table

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1 Japan85518
2 South Korea55111
3 Kazakhstan4239
4 Iran31610
5 Uzbekistan3126
6 China25310
7 North Korea2103
8 Syria1001
 United States1001
9 Chinese Taipei0538
10 Mongolia0303
11 Turkmenistan0101
12 Kyrgyzstan0033
13 Philippines0022
Totals (13 nations)29292886

Team ranking

Rank Men's freestyle Men's Greco-Roman Women's freestyle
Team Points Team Points Team Points
1  Iran78 South Korea83 Japan87
2  South Korea70 China71 Chinese Taipei76
3  Japan66 Kazakhstan70 China45
4  Uzbekistan59 Japan68 Philippines22
5  Mongolia51 Uzbekistan Kazakhstan15

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg Kim Il
 North Korea
Luvsan-Ishiin Sergelenbaatar
 Mongolia
Vladimir Torgovkin
 Kyrgyzstan
52 kg Adkhamjon Achilov
 Uzbekistan
Hideo Sasayama
 Japan
Behnam Tayyebi
 Iran
57 kg Ri Yong-sam
 North Korea
Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar
 Mongolia
Mohammad Talaei
 Iran
62 kg Takahiro Wada
 Japan
Jang Jae-sung
 South Korea
Abbas Hajkenari
 Iran
68 kg Boris Budayev
 Uzbekistan
Hwang Sang-ho
 South Korea
Amir Tavakkolian
 Iran
74 kg Park Jang-soon
 South Korea
Magomed Kurugliyev
 Kazakhstan
Issa Momeni
 Iran
82 kg Ruslan Khinchagov
 Uzbekistan
Yang Hyung-mo
 South Korea
Alireza Heidari
 Iran
90 kg Rasoul Khadem
 Iran
Islam Bayramukov
 Kazakhstan
Tatsuo Kawai
 Japan
100 kg Abbas Jadidi
 Iran
Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar
 Mongolia
Konstantin Aleksandrov
 Kyrgyzstan
130 kg Ebrahim Mehraban
 Iran
Feng Aigang
 China
Igor Klimov
 Kazakhstan

Men's Greco-Roman

Event Gold Silver Bronze
48 kg Sim Kwon-ho
 South Korea
Kang Yong-gyun
 North Korea
Hiroshi Kado
 Japan
52 kg Khaled Al-Faraj
 Syria
Ha Tae-yeon
 South Korea
Shamsiddin Khudoyberdiev
 Uzbekistan
57 kg Yuriy Melnichenko
 Kazakhstan
Kenkichi Nishimi
 Japan
Sheng Zetian
 China
62 kg Choi Sang-sun
 South Korea
Ahad Pazaj
 Iran
Hu Guohong
 China
68 kg Son Sang-pil
 South Korea
Grigori Pulyaev
 Uzbekistan
Yasushi Miyake
 Japan
74 kg Kim Jin-soo
 South Korea
Takamitsu Katayama
 Japan
Bakhtiyar Baiseitov
 Kazakhstan
82 kg Daulet Turlykhanov
 Kazakhstan
Park Myung-suk
 South Korea
Raatbek Sanatbayev
 Kyrgyzstan
90 kg Sergey Matviyenko
 Kazakhstan
Rozy Rejepow
 Turkmenistan
Eom Jin-han
 South Korea
100 kg Anatoly Fedorenko
 Kazakhstan
Ba Yanchuan
 China
Takashi Nonomura
 Japan
130 kg Liu Guoke
 China
Kenichi Suzuki
 Japan
Shermuhammad Quziev
 Uzbekistan

Women's freestyle

Event Gold Silver Bronze
44 kg Shoko Yoshimura
 Japan
Chiu Jui-fen
 Chinese Taipei
Cristina Villanueva
 Philippines
47 kg Miho Adachi
 Japan
Zhong Xiue
 China
Chang Wen-hsia
 Chinese Taipei
50 kg Tricia Saunders
 United States
Kozue Kimura
 Japan
Liu Hongmei
 China
53 kg Ryoko Sakae
 Japan
Huang Chiu-yueh
 Chinese Taipei
Gemma Silverio
 Philippines
57 kg Mariko Shimizu
 Japan
Huang Chia-chi
 Chinese Taipei
Svetlana Volkova
 Kazakhstan
61 kg Mikiko Miyazaki
 Japan
Kong Yan
 China
Huang Wan-ling
 Chinese Taipei
65 kg Yayoi Urano
 Japan
Wang Chaoli
 China
Wu Huei-li
 Chinese Taipei
70 kg Kyoko Hamaguchi
 Japan
Lee Yen-hiu
 Chinese Taipei
None awarded
75 kg Liu Dongfeng
 China
Sha Ling-li
 Chinese Taipei
Reiko Sumiya
 Japan

References

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