Wrestling at the 1998 Asian Games

Wrestling was one of the many sports which was held at the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, Thailand between 12 and 18 December 1998. The competition took place at Thammasat Gymnasium 1.

Wrestling at the 1998 Asian Games
Venue	Thammasat Gymnasium 1
Dates	12–18 December 1998
Competitors	175 from 20 nations

Schedule

P

Preliminary rounds

F

Finals

Event↓/Date →	12th Sat	13th Sun		14th Mon		15th Tue	16th Wed	17th Thu		18th Fri
Men's freestyle 54 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 58 kg								P		P	F
Men's freestyle 63 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 69 kg								P		P	F
Men's freestyle 76 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 85 kg								P		P	F
Men's freestyle 97 kg							P	P	F
Men's freestyle 130 kg								P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 54 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 58 kg		P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 63 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 69 kg		P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 76 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 85 kg		P		P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 97 kg	P	P	F
Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg		P		P	F

Medalists

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Jin Ju-dong  North Korea	Behnam Tayyebi  Iran	Maulen Mamyrov  Kazakhstan
58 kg	Ri Yong-sam  North Korea	Oyuunbilegiin Pürevbaatar  Mongolia	Mohammad Talaei  Iran
63 kg	Jang Jae-sung  South Korea	Ramil Islamov  Uzbekistan	Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar  Mongolia
69 kg	Amir Tavakkolian  Iran	Ahmad Al-Osta  Syria	Ryusaburo Katsu  Japan
76 kg	Moon Eui-jae  South Korea	Kenji Koshiba  Japan	Ruslan Veliyev  Kazakhstan
85 kg	Alireza Heidari  Iran	Rasul Katinovasov  Uzbekistan	Magomed Kurugliyev  Kazakhstan
97 kg	Abbas Jadidi  Iran	Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar  Mongolia	Soslan Fraev  Uzbekistan
130 kg	Alireza Rezaei  Iran	Georgy Kaysinov  Uzbekistan	Gelegjamtsyn Ösökhbayar  Mongolia

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
54 kg	Sim Kwon-ho  South Korea	Kang Yong-gyun  North Korea	Wang Hui  China
58 kg	Kim In-sub  South Korea	Asliddin Khudoyberdiev  Uzbekistan	Sheng Zetian  China
63 kg	Choi Sang-sun  South Korea	Bakhodir Kurbanov  Uzbekistan	Yi Shanjun  China
69 kg	Son Sang-pil  South Korea	Mkhitar Manukyan  Kazakhstan	Grigori Pulyaev  Uzbekistan
76 kg	Bakhtiyar Baiseitov  Kazakhstan	Takamitsu Katayama  Japan	Kim Jung-sub  South Korea
85 kg	Park Myung-suk  South Korea	Raatbek Sanatbayev  Kyrgyzstan	Hidekazu Yokoyama  Japan
97 kg	Sergey Matviyenko  Kazakhstan	Mohammad Al-Haiek  Syria	Park Woo  South Korea
130 kg	Mehdi Sabzali  Iran	Shermuhammad Quziev  Uzbekistan	Zhao Hailin  China

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	South Korea (KOR)	7	0	2	9
2	Iran (IRI)	5	1	1	7
3	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	2	1	3	6
4	North Korea (PRK)	2	1	0	3
5	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	6	2	8
6	Japan (JPN)	0	2	2	4
	Mongolia (MGL)	0	2	2	4
8	Syria (SYR)	0	2	0	2
9	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	0	1	0	1
10	China (CHN)	0	0	4	4
Totals (10 entries)		16	16	16	48

Participating nations

A total of 175 athletes from 20 nations competed in wrestling at the 1998 Asian Games:

•  China (10)
•  Chinese Taipei (2)
•  India (6)
•  Iran (16)
•  Japan (16)
•  Kazakhstan (16)
•  Kyrgyzstan (12)
•  Lebanon (3)
•  Mongolia (9)
•  Nepal (3)
•  North Korea (7)
•  Pakistan (2)
•  Philippines (6)
•  South Korea (16)
•  Syria (10)
•  Thailand (14)
•  Turkmenistan (3)
•  Uzbekistan (16)
•  Vietnam (6)
•  Yemen (2)

References

• Results
• FILA Database