1996 Asian Wrestling Championships
1996 Asian Championships | |
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Host city | Xiaoshan, China |
Dates | 4–10 April |
Champions | |
Freestyle | Iran |
Greco-Roman | South Korea |
Women | Japan |
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.
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[]
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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1 | Japan | 8 | 5 | 5 | 18 |
2 | South Korea | 5 | 5 | 1 | 11 |
3 | Kazakhstan | 4 | 2 | 3 | 9 |
4 | Iran | 3 | 1 | 6 | 10 |
5 | Uzbekistan | 3 | 1 | 2 | 6 |
6 | China | 2 | 5 | 3 | 10 |
7 | North Korea | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
8 | Syria | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
– | United States | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
9 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 5 | 3 | 8 |
10 | Mongolia | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
11 | Turkmenistan | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
12 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
13 | Philippines | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Totals (13 nations) | 29 | 29 | 28 | 86 |
Team ranking[]
Rank | Men's freestyle | Men's Greco-Roman | Women's freestyle | |||
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Team | Points | Team | Points | Team | Points | |
1 | Iran | 78 | South Korea | 83 | Japan | 87 |
2 | South Korea | 70 | China | 71 | Chinese Taipei | 76 |
3 | Japan | 66 | Kazakhstan | 70 | China | 45 |
4 | Uzbekistan | 59 | Japan | 68 | Philippines | 22 |
5 | Mongolia | 51 | Uzbekistan | Kazakhstan | 15 |
Medal summary[]
Men's freestyle[]
Men's Greco-Roman[]
Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
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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 | 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 |
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44 kg | Japan |
Chinese Taipei |
Cristina Villanueva Philippines |
47 kg | Japan |
China |
Chinese Taipei |
50 kg | Tricia Saunders United States |
Japan |
China |
53 kg | Japan |
Chinese Taipei |
Philippines |
57 kg | Japan |
Chinese Taipei |
Kazakhstan |
61 kg | Japan |
China |
Chinese Taipei |
65 kg | Japan |
China |
Chinese Taipei |
70 kg | Kyoko Hamaguchi Japan |
Chinese Taipei |
None awarded |
75 kg | China |
Chinese Taipei |
Japan |
References[]
Categories:
- 1996 in sport wrestling
- 1996 in Chinese sport
- Asian Wrestling Championships
- International wrestling competitions hosted by China