2006 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Guangzhou, China
Dates	25 September – 1 October 2006
Stadium	Tianhe Gymnasium
Champions
Freestyle	Russia
Greco-Roman	Turkey
Women	Japan
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The 2006 World Wrestling Championships were held at the Tianhe Gymnasium in Guangzhou, China. The event took place from September 25 to October 1, 2006.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	5	1	2	8
2	Russia	3	2	6	11
3	China	2	3	0	5
4	United States	2	1	6	9
5	Iran	2	1	3	6
6	Ukraine	2	0	2	4
7	Bulgaria	2	0	1	3
8	Uzbekistan	1	0	2	3
9	Egypt	1	0	0	1
	Estonia	1	0	0	1
11	Georgia	0	4	1	5
12	Canada	0	2	0	2
13	Turkey	0	1	3	4
14	Belarus	0	1	2	3
	Cuba	0	1	2	3
16	Azerbaijan	0	1	1	2
17	Czech Republic	0	1	0	1
	Finland	0	1	0	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	1	0	1
20	Poland	0	0	2	2
	Sweden	0	0	2	2
22	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Denmark	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Italy	0	0	1	1
	South Korea	0	0	1	1
	Spain	0	0	1	1
Totals (28 entries)		21	21	42	84

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Russia	51	Turkey	39	Japan	67
2	Iran	44	Russia	34	China	41
3	United States	35	United States	34	Canada	30
4	Ukraine	33	Georgia	29	Russia	28
5	Uzbekistan	32	Iran	27	Belarus	24
6	Georgia	32	Ukraine	26	Germany	23
7	Belarus	23	Bulgaria	18	United States	22
8	Bulgaria	22	Hungary	16	Ukraine	22
9	Cuba	18	Finland	15	Poland  Sweden	19
10	Azerbaijan	16	Belarus	15

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Radoslav Velikov  Bulgaria	Besik Kudukhov  Russia	Namig Abdullayev  Azerbaijan
			Sammie Henson  United States
60 kg details	Morad Mohammadi  Iran	Mike Zadick  United States	Noriyuki Takatsuka  Japan
			Mavlet Batirov  Russia
66 kg details	Bill Zadick  United States	Otar Tushishvili  Georgia	Geandry Garzón  Cuba
			Andriy Stadnik  Ukraine
74 kg details	Ibragim Aldatov  Ukraine	Ali Asghar Bazri  Iran	Soslan Tigiev  Uzbekistan
			Donny Pritzlaff  United States
84 kg details	Sazhid Sazhidov  Russia	Revaz Mindorashvili  Georgia	Reza Yazdani  Iran
			Zaurbek Sokhiev  Uzbekistan
96 kg details	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov  Russia	Giorgi Gogshelidze  Georgia	Michel Batista  Cuba
			Ruslan Sheikhau  Belarus
120 kg details	Artur Taymazov  Uzbekistan	Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov  Russia	Fardin Masoumi  Iran
			Ruslan Basiev  Armenia

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Hamid Sourian  Iran	Rovshan Bayramov  Azerbaijan	Lindsey Durlacher  United States
			Park Eun-chul  South Korea
60 kg details	Joe Warren  United States	David Bedinadze  Georgia	Bünyamin Emik  Turkey
			Vyacheslav Dzhaste  Russia
66 kg details	Li Yanyan  China	Kanatbek Begaliev  Kyrgyzstan	Sergey Kovalenko  Russia
			Justin Lester  United States
74 kg details	Volodymyr Shatskykh  Ukraine	Marko Yli-Hannuksela  Finland	Manuchar Kvirkvelia  Georgia
			Mark Madsen  Denmark
84 kg details	Mohamed Abdelfatah  Egypt	Nazmi Avluca  Turkey	Aleksey Mishin  Russia
			Saman Tahmasebi  Iran
96 kg details	Heiki Nabi  Estonia	Marek Švec  Czech Republic	Kaloyan Dinchev  Bulgaria
			Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey
120 kg details	Khasan Baroev  Russia	Mijaín López  Cuba	Siarhei Artsiukhin  Belarus
			İsmail Güzel  Turkey

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Chiharu Icho  Japan	Ren Xuecheng  China	Iwona Sadowska  Poland
			Francine De Paola  Italy
51 kg details	Hitomi Sakamoto  Japan	Lyndsay Belisle  Canada	Patricia Miranda  United States
			Alena Adashinskaya  Russia
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida  Japan	Mariya Yahorava  Belarus	Minerva Montero  Spain
			Ida-Theres Karlsson  Sweden
59 kg details	Ayako Shoda  Japan	Su Lihui  China	Alka Tomar  India
			Nataliya Synyshyn  Ukraine
63 kg details	Kaori Icho  Japan	Xu Haiyan  China	Monika Rogien  Poland
			Helena Allandi  Sweden
67 kg details	Jing Ruixue  China	Martine Dugrenier  Canada	Maria Müller  Germany
			Eri Sakamoto  Japan
72 kg details	Stanka Zlateva  Bulgaria	Kyoko Hamaguchi  Japan	Elena Perepelkina  Russia
			Kristie Marano  United States

596 competitors from 75 nations participated.

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