1998 World Wrestling Championships

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.

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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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.

•  Armenia (2)
•  Australia (5)
•  Azerbaijan (7)
•  Belarus (8)
•  Bulgaria (8)
•  Canada (8)
•  China (6)
•  Chinese Taipei (1)
•  Colombia (3)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Cyprus (2)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  France (1)
•  Georgia (7)
•  Germany (8)
•  Great Britain (2)
•  Greece (4)
•  Hungary (4)
•  India (7)
•  Iran (8)
•  Italy (1)
•  Japan (8)
•  Kazakhstan (7)
•  Kyrgyzstan (5)
•  Latvia (1)
• Macedonia (1)
•  Moldova (4)
•  Mongolia (8)
•  Poland (8)
•  Romania (3)
•  Russia (8)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  South Africa (5)
•  South Korea (8)
•  Switzerland (4)
•  Syria (4)
•  Turkey (8)
•  Ukraine (8)
•  United States (8)
•  Uzbekistan (7)

Men's Greco-Roman

220 competitors from 49 nations participated.

•  Algeria (1)
•  Armenia (5)
•  Australia (1)
•  Austria (1)
•  Belarus (7)
•  Bulgaria (7)
•  Canada (2)
•  China (7)
•  Colombia (2)
•  Croatia (1)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  Denmark (1)
•  Estonia (6)
•  Finland (7)
•  France (5)
•  Georgia (7)
•  Germany (8)
•  Greece (7)
•  Guam (1)
•  Hungary (8)
•  Iran (6)
•  Israel (5)
•  Italy (6)
•  Japan (8)
•  Kazakhstan (5)
•  Kyrgyzstan (2)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Lithuania (3)
•  Moldova (2)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  Norway (5)
•  Poland (8)
•  Portugal (2)
•  Romania (5)
•  Russia (8)
•  Slovakia (2)
•  Slovenia (3)
•  South Korea (8)
•  Spain (3)
•  Sweden (8)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  Syria (3)
•  Tunisia (2)
•  Turkey (8)
•  Ukraine (8)
•  United States (8)
•  Uzbekistan (4)
•  Yugoslavia (3)

Women's freestyle

86 competitors from 21 nations participated.^[1]

•  Australia (4)
•  Austria (4)
•  Bulgaria (2)
•  Canada (6)
•  China (4)
•  Czech Republic (2)
•  France (4)
•  Germany (5)
•  Greece (2)
•  Italy (4)
•  Japan (6)
•  Latvia (3)
•  Norway (4)
•  Poland (6)
•  Russia (6)
•  Spain (3)
•  Sweden (4)
•  Switzerland (1)
•  Ukraine (5)
•  United States (6)
•  Uzbekistan (5)