# 1997 Asian Wrestling Championships

The following is the final results of the 1997 Asian Wrestling Championships being held in Iran and Taiwan.

## Medal table

| Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1 | Japan | 6 | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| 2 | Iran | 5 | 0 | 6 | 11 |
| 3 | South Korea | 4 | 5 | 2 | 11 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 5 | Uzbekistan | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 6 | Mongolia | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 7 | China | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 8 | North Korea | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 9 | Turkmenistan | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 10 | Chinese Taipei | 0 | 3 | 3 | 6 |
| 11 | Kyrgyzstan | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 12 | Syria | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 13 | India | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Totals (13 entries) | Totals (13 entries) | 22 | 22 | 22 | 66 |

## Team ranking

| Rank | Men's freestyle | Men's freestyle | Men's Greco-Roman | Men's Greco-Roman | Women's freestyle | Women's freestyle |
| Rank | Team | Points | Team | Points | Team | Points |
| 1 | Iran | 70 | South Korea | 65 | Japan | 55 |
| 2 | South Korea | 65 | Kazakhstan | 56 | Chinese Taipei | 51 |
| 3 | Japan | 40 | Iran | 54 | Turkmenistan | 29 |
| 4 | Kazakhstan | 37 | Uzbekistan | 51 | South Korea | 21 |
| 5 | China | 33 | Japan | 47 | Philippines | 18 |

## Medal summary
### Men's freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 54 kg | Jin Ju-dong North Korea | Niu Pinghui China | Gholamreza Mohammadi Iran |
| 58 kg | Oyuunbilegiin Pürevbaatar Mongolia | Seo Min-kyu South Korea | Mohammad Talaei Iran |
| 63 kg | Abbas Hajkenari Iran | Baek Jin-kuk South Korea | Kim Kwang-il North Korea |
| 69 kg | Davoud Ghanbari Iran | Ahmad Al-Osta Syria | Almaz Askarov Kyrgyzstan |
| 76 kg | Moon Eui-jae South Korea | Tümen-Ölziin Mönkhbayar Mongolia | Sagid Katinovasov Uzbekistan |
| 85 kg | Alireza Heidari Iran | Yang Hyung-mo South Korea | Soslan Fraev Uzbekistan |
| 97 kg | Abdolreza Kargar Iran | Bayanmönkhiin Gantogtokh Mongolia | Islam Bayramukov Kazakhstan |
| 125 kg | Ebrahim Mehraban Iran | Hiroyuki Obata Japan | Jagdish Singh India |

### Men's Greco-Roman

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 54 kg | Dilshod Aripov Uzbekistan | Nurym Dyusenov Kazakhstan | Kang Yong-gyun North Korea |
| 58 kg | Yuriy Melnichenko Kazakhstan | Kim In-sub South Korea | Mehdi Nassiri Iran |
| 63 kg | Mkhitar Manukyan Kazakhstan | Yasutoshi Motoki Japan | Park Young-shin South Korea |
| 69 kg | Choi Sang-sun South Korea | Grigori Pulyaev Uzbekistan | Andrey Nikiforov Kazakhstan |
| 76 kg | Takamitsu Katayama Japan | Bisolt Dezeev Kyrgyzstan | Han Chee-ho South Korea |
| 85 kg | Park Myung-suk South Korea | Raatbek Sanatbayev Kyrgyzstan | Behrouz Jamshidi Iran |
| 97 kg | Ba Yanchuan China | Roman Vegl Kazakhstan | Dariush Ghalavand Iran |
| 125 kg | Yang Young-jin South Korea | Shuhrat Sadiev Uzbekistan | Mehdi Sabzali Iran |

### Women's freestyle

| Event | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
| 46 kg | Shoko Yoshimura Japan | Yukie Umeda Japan | Wu Li-chuan Chinese Taipei |
| 51 kg | Seiko Yamamoto Japan | Huang Chiu-yueh Chinese Taipei | Yuka Tsuji Japan |
| 56 kg | Yuka Mitadera Japan | Chie Sawada Japan | Lin Chin-miao Chinese Taipei |
| 62 kg | Ari Suzuki Japan | Huang Wan-ling Chinese Taipei | Tomoe Miyamoto Japan |
| 68 kg | Nadežda Želtakowa Turkmenistan | Wu Huei-li Chinese Taipei | Chieko Miyamoto Japan |
| 75 kg | Reiko Sumiya Japan | Chae Soo-jung South Korea | Sha Ling-li Chinese Taipei |