2008 Asian Wrestling Championships

2008 Asian Wrestling Championships
Host city	Jeju, South Korea
Dates	18–23 March 2008
Stadium	Halla Gymnasium
Champions
Freestyle	Japan
Greco-Roman	Iran
Women	Japan

The 2008 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Jeju, South Korea. The event took place from March 18 to March 23, 2008.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	7	1	7	15
2	Iran	4	3	2	9
3	China	3	1	5	9
4	South Korea	3	1	4	8
5	Kyrgyzstan	1	2	1	4
6	Uzbekistan	1	1	4	6
7	North Korea	1	1	2	4
8	India	1	0	3	4
9	Kazakhstan	0	6	6	12
10	Mongolia	0	5	3	8
11	Chinese Taipei	0	0	2	2
12	Syria	0	0	1	1
	Tajikistan	0	0	1	1
	Vietnam	0	0	1	1
Totals (14 entries)		21	21	42	84

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Japan	49	Iran	55	Japan	64
2	Iran	48	Kazakhstan	50	China	57
3	Mongolia	47	Japan	49	Kazakhstan	53
4	South Korea	40	Kyrgyzstan	42	Mongolia	45
5	Kazakhstan	39	South Korea	42	India	40
6	Uzbekistan	37	Uzbekistan	38	South Korea	35
7	China	32	China	28	Chinese Taipei	34
8	India	31	North Korea	23	Vietnam	14
9	North Korea	24	India	23	Kyrgyzstan	10
10	Syria	14	Chinese Taipei	16	Uzbekistan	9

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Tomohiro Matsunaga Japan	Yang Jae-hoon South Korea	Kim Sun-nam North Korea
			Firas Al-Rifaei Syria
60 kg	Yogeshwar Dutt India	Noriyuki Takatsuka Japan	Vais Tlegenov Uzbekistan
			Morad Mohammadi Iran
66 kg	Yang Chun-song North Korea	Pürevjavyn Önörbat Mongolia	Kazuhiko Ikematsu Japan
			Sushil Kumar India
74 kg	Cho Byung-kwan South Korea	Meisam Mostafa-Jokar Iran	Kazuyuki Nagashima Japan
			Dorjvaanchigiin Gombodorj Mongolia
84 kg	Wang Ying China	Chagnaadorjiin Ganzorig Mongolia	Abdul Ammaev Uzbekistan
			Yusup Abdusalomov Tajikistan
96 kg	Kurban Kurbanov Uzbekistan	Amir Abbas Moradi Ganji Iran	Koo Tae-hyun South Korea
			Daulet Shabanbay Kazakhstan
120 kg	Fardin Masoumi Iran	Marid Mutalimov Kazakhstan	Jargalsaikhany Chuluunbat Mongolia
			Liang Lei China

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Hamid Sourian Iran	Cha Kwang-su North Korea	Kohei Hasegawa Japan
			Yermek Kuketov Kazakhstan
60 kg	Ruslan Tyumenbayev Kyrgyzstan	Dilshod Aripov Uzbekistan	Hideo Kitaoka Japan
			Yerbol Konyratov Kazakhstan
66 kg	Kim Min-chul South Korea	Kanatbek Begaliev Kyrgyzstan	Masaki Imuro Japan
			Kim Kum-chol North Korea
74 kg	Chang Yongxiang China	Daniar Kobonov Kyrgyzstan	Jung Tae-kyun South Korea
			Mehdi Mohammadi Iran
84 kg	Shingo Matsumoto Japan	Taleb Nematpour Iran	Cho Hyo-chul South Korea
			Andrey Samokhin Kazakhstan
96 kg	Ghasem Rezaei Iran	Margulan Assembekov Kazakhstan	Han Tae-young South Korea
			Abdulmalik Aliev Uzbekistan
120 kg	Masoud Hashemzadeh Iran	Georgiy Tsurtsumia Kazakhstan	Davyd Saldadze Uzbekistan
			Hirokazu Shinjo Japan

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Chiharu Icho Japan	Ren Xuecheng China	Neha Rathi India
			Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal Mongolia
51 kg	Um Hye-jin South Korea	Zhuldyz Eshimova Kazakhstan	Phạm Thị Huệ Vietnam
			Huang Wenjuan China
55 kg	Saori Yoshida Japan	Saltanat Abdrakhmanova Kazakhstan	Su Ying-tzu Chinese Taipei
			Xu Li China
59 kg	Li Songni China	Olga Smirnova Kazakhstan	Anita Sheoran India
			Mizuka Kajita Japan
63 kg	Kaori Icho Japan	Badrakhyn Odonchimeg Mongolia	Yelena Shalygina Kazakhstan
			Hou Min-wen Chinese Taipei
67 kg	Mami Shinkai Japan	Ochirbatyn Nasanburmaa Mongolia	Darya Karpenko Kazakhstan
			Zhang Fengliu China
72 kg	Kyoko Hamaguchi Japan	Ochirbatyn Burmaa Mongolia	Xu Qing China
			Yana Panova Kyrgyzstan

Participating nations

210 competitors from 18 nations competed.

• China (21)
• Chinese Taipei (15)
• India (19)
• Iran (14)
• Japan (21)
• Jordan (2)
• Kazakhstan (21)
• Kyrgyzstan (12)
• Mongolia (13)
• North Korea (6)
• Philippines (2)
• Qatar (6)
• South Korea (20)
• Syria (5)
• Tajikistan (5)
• Thailand (5)
• Uzbekistan (17)
• Vietnam (6)

References

• Results Archived 2015-09-24 at the Wayback Machine