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Women’s part of the 2006 world championships in Guangzhou (China) finished with absolute and indisputable victory of Japanese wrestlers. They won gold medals in five out of seven weight categories. A Chinese wrestler won gold in the category 67kg/147.5 lbs while Bulgarian Stanka Zlateva won gold in the heavyweight (72kg/158.5 lbs).
As in the 2005 championship in Budapest, Russian female wrestlers took two third and two fifth positions. Young Alena Adashinskaya (51kg./112.25 lbs) and 24-year-old Elena Perepelkina (72kg/158.5 lbs) got bronze. Perepelkina got the second world bronze in a row. However, before, in the European championship in Moscow and in Budapest she competed in the 67kg/147.5 lbs category but after she had defeated Olympic vice-champion Guzel Manyurova, she captured the heavyweight as well.
Maria Egorova from Belarus got silver (55kg/121 lbs) and Natalia Sinitsina – brtonze (59kg/130 lbs).
Technical Results
48 kg/105.5 lbs
1. Chiharu Icho (Japan)
2. Ren Zue Cen (China)
3. Iwona Sadowska (Poland), Francine DePaola (Italy)
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5. Marina Markevich (Belarus)
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7. Nataliya Pulkovska (Ukraine)
51 kg/112.25 lbs
1. Hitomi Sakamoto (Japan)
2. Lindsay Belisle (Canada)
3. Patricia Miranda (USA), Alena Adashinskaya (Russia)
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5. Oleksandra Kohut (Ukraine)
55 kg/121 lbs
1. Saori Yoshida (Japan)
2. Mariya Egorova (Belarus)
3. Minerva Montero (Spain), Ida-Theres Karlsson (Sweden)
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5. Natalia Golts (Russia)
59 kg/130 lbs
1. Ayako Shoda (Japan)
2. Su Liu Hui (China)
3. Nataliya Sinitsyna (Ukraine), Alka Tomar (India)
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5. Ludmila Cristea (Moldova)
63 kg/138.75 lbs
1. Kaori Icho (Japan)
2. Xu Hai Yan (China)
3. Monika Rogien (Poland), Helena Allandi (Sweden)
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5. Lyubov Volosova (Russia)
67 kg/147.5 lbs
1. Jing Rui Xue (China)
2. Martine Dugrenier (Canada)
3. Maria Muller (Germany), Eri Sakamoto (Japan)
72 kg/158.5 lbs
1. Stanka Zlateva (Bulgaria)
2. Kyoko Hamaguchi (Japan)
3. Elena Perepelkina (Russia), Kristie Marano USA)
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5. Vasilisa Marzaliuk (Belarus)
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7. Svitlana Saenko (Ukraine)
September 2006
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Natalia Adashinskaya atacks
Maria Egorova (top) attacks Jessica Bechtel
Elena Perepelkina in action
Mighty heavyweight Stanka Zlateva
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