2008 World Junior Wrestling Championships

The 2008 World Junior Wrestling Championships were the 32nd edition of the World Junior Wrestling Championships and were held in Istanbul, Turkey between 28 July–3 August 2008.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6][7]}

2008 World Junior Wrestling Championships
Host city	Istanbul, Turkey
Dates	28 July - 3 August 2008
Champions
Freestyle	Russia
Greco-Roman	Turkey
Women	Russia
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	9	4	2	15
2	Turkey	6	1	4	11
3	Iran	2	5	2	9
4	Japan	2	0	5	7
5	Kazakhstan	1	2	1	4
6	Azerbaijan	1	1	3	5
7	Kyrgyzstan	1	1	0	2
8	United States	1	0	6	7
9	Bulgaria	1	0	1	2
10	Cuba	0	2	1	3
11	Ukraine	0	1	4	5
12	Georgia	0	1	3	4
	Mongolia	0	1	3	4
	Sweden	0	1	3	4
15	Belarus	0	1	1	2
16	Lithuania	0	1	0	1
	Poland	0	1	0	1
	Serbia	0	1	0	1
19	India	0	0	2	2
	Romania	0	0	2	2
	Uzbekistan	0	0	2	2
22	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Moldova	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
Totals (24 entries)		24	24	48	96

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Ahmet Peker  Turkey	Mikhail Ivanov  Russia	Nitin Nitin  India
			Vladimer Khinchegashvili  Georgia
55 kg	Nariman Israpilov  Russia	Hassan Rahimi  Iran	Damdinbazar Tsogtbaatar  Mongolia
			Stoyan Tsonev  Bulgaria
60 kg	Masoud Esmaeilpour  Iran	Alejandro Valdes  Cuba	Semak Lyubomir  Ukraine
			Muhammet Demir  Turkey
66 kg	Magomedmurad Gadzhiev  Russia	Jabrayil Hasanov  Azerbaijan	Unurbat Purevjav  Mongolia
			Ikhtiyor Navruzov  Uzbekistan
74 kg	Magomed Zubairov  Russia	Saeid Tavakoli  Iran	Georgi Marsagishvili  Georgia
			Quentin Wright  United States
84 kg	Abdusalam Gadisov  Russia	Beka Chelidze  Georgia	Mike Letts  United States
			Umidjon Ismanov  Uzbekistan
96 kg	Alen Zasieiev  Russia	Shamil Dibirov  Ukraine	Komeil Ghasemi  Iran
			Clayton Foster  United States
120 kg	Soslan Gagloev  Russia	Elier Camacho  Cuba	Levan Berianidze  Georgia
			Nobuyoshi Arakida  Japan

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Kanybek Zholchubekov  Kyrgyzstan	Reza Asadpour  Iran	Sang-Hoon Oh  South Korea
			Ferhat Tekin  Turkey
55 kg	Aleksandar Kostadinov  Bulgaria	Arsen Eraliev  Kyrgyzstan	Maikel Anache  Cuba
			Harun Bozoğlu  Turkey
60 kg	Rahman Bilici  Turkey	Henadzi Aliashchuk  Belarus	Eldar Kairatov  Kazakhstan
			Hajikhan Mustafayev  Azerbaijan
66 kg	Saeid Abdevali  Iran	Aleksandar Maksimović  Serbia	Rafig Huseynov  Azerbaijan
			Migran Arutyunyan  Russia
74 kg	Elvin Mursaliyev  Azerbaijan	Alkhazur Ozdiev  Kazakhstan	Jafari Mohammadabadi  Iran
			Selim Demir  Turkey
84 kg	Zaur Karezhev  Russia	Aldas Lukosaitis  Lithuania	Aleksander Shyshman  Ukraine
			Robert Papp  Romania
96 kg	Ahmet Taçyıldız  Turkey	Mohammad Reza Akbari  Iran	Oliver Hassler  Germany
			Marin Cazac  Moldova
120 kg	Rıza Kayaalp  Turkey	Bashir Babajanzadeh  Iran	Cesar Faghian  Romania
			Shinichi Hirakawa  Japan

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
44 kg	Eleonora Abutalipova  Kazakhstan	Sümeyye Sezer  Turkey	Priyanka Singh  India
			Hanna Wennstroem  Sweden
48 kg	Fuyuko Mimura  Japan	Zhuldyz Eshimova-Turtbayeva  Kazakhstan	Maria Livach  Ukraine
			Alyssa Lampe  United States
51 kg	Yu Horiuchi  Japan	Ekaterina Krasnova  Russia	Helen Maroulis  United States
			Nadiya Gradyuk  Azerbaijan
55 kg	Emriye Musta  Turkey	Irina Kisel  Russia	Akiko Shimizu  Japan
			Tsevegmed Enkhbayar  Mongolia
59 kg	Anastasia Bratchikova  Russia	Johanna Mattsson  Sweden	Alla Cherkasova  Ukraine
			Tatiana Padilla  United States
63 kg	Ekaterina Melnikova  Russia	Paulina Grabowska  Poland	Henna Johansson  Sweden
			Ayaka Sato  Japan
67 kg	Adeline Gray  United States	Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa  Mongolia	Natalya Laushkina  Russia
			Chiaki Iijima  Japan
72 kg	Simge Yılmaz  Turkey	Ekaterina Efimova  Russia	Natalya Shynkarova  Belarus
			Emma Weberg  Sweden