2000 World Wrestling Championships

The 2000 Women's World Wrestling Championships were held in Sofia, Bulgaria from 1 to 3 September 2000.

2000 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Dates	1–3 September 2000
Stadium	Universiada Hall
Champions
Women	Japan

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	2	1	2	5
2	Ukraine	1	1	0	2
	United States	1	1	0	2
4	Canada	1	0	2	3
5	Austria	1	0	0	1
6	Russia	0	2	0	2
7	Poland	0	1	0	1
8	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)		6	6	6	18

Team ranking

Rank	Women's freestyle
	Team	Points
1	Japan	48
2	Russia	34
3	Canada	31
4	Ukraine	27
5	United States	25
6	Germany	20
7	Poland	19
8	Sweden	18
9	France	13
10	Bulgaria	13

Medal summary

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
46 kg	Iryna Melnik Ukraine	Inga Karamchakova Russia	Carol Huynh Canada
51 kg	Hitomi Sakamoto Japan	Patricia Miranda United States	Ida Hellström Sweden
56 kg	Seiko Yamamoto Japan	Tetyana Lazareva Ukraine	Jennifer Ryz Canada
62 kg	Nikola Hartmann Austria	Rena Iwama Japan	Stéphanie Groß Germany
68 kg	Kristie Marano United States	Anna Shamova Russia	Tomoe Miyamoto Japan
75 kg	Christine Nordhagen Canada	Edyta Witkowska Poland	Kyoko Hamaguchi Japan

Participating nations

90 competitors from 24 nations participated.

• Austria (1)
• Bulgaria (6)
• Canada (6)
• Chinese Taipei (5)
• Czech Republic (3)
• El Salvador (3)
• Finland (1)
• France (3)
• Germany (5)
• Greece (3)
• Italy (1)
• Japan (6)
• Mexico (2)
• Norway (1)
• Poland (4)
• Puerto Rico (1)
• Russia (6)
• Spain (4)
• Sweden (4)
• Tunisia (2)
• Turkey (6)
• Ukraine (6)
• United States (6)
• Venezuela (5)

See also

• Wrestling at the 2000 Summer Olympics

References

• Results summary
• Complete results

External links

• UWW Database