To Our Friends in Wrestling Around the world

                    

By William May
(Japan Amateur Wrestling Federation, Public Information Committee
Kyodo World Services, senior sports writer:wmay52@hotmail.com


NATIONS QUALIFIED FOR ATHENS OLYMPICS, GRECO-ROMAN




   TASHKENT (March 14) - Nations that have qualified for the greco-roman wrestling event at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens through the second and final qualifying competition in Tashkent:
(Note: The top 10 countries and Greece qualified last October at the world championships in France. Another five were qualified at the 1st qualifying competition in Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro, February 28-29.)

By weight

55 kg - (Wc) Poland, Korea, Cuba, Czech Republic, Romania, Kyrgyzstan, Iran, Denmark, Lithuania, Ukraine, Greece; (Q1) Turkey, United States, Hungary, Georgia, China; (Q2) Japan, Russia, Kazakhstan, India

60 kg - (Wc) Bulgaria, Cuba, Romania, United States, Georgia, Poland, Turkey, Egypt, Ukraine, Germany, Greece; (Q1) Uzbekistan, Japan, Korea, Italy, Russia; (Q2) Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Serbia/Montenegro

66 kg - (Wc) Georgia, Ukraine, Hungary, Armenia, Turkey, Korea, Germany, Azerbaijan, Colombia, Sweden, Greece; (Q1) Bulgaria, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, United States; (Q2) Cuba, Spain, Kyrgyzstan, Poland

74 kg - (Wc) Russia, Germany, Korea, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Finland, Israel, Azerbaijan, Japan, Greece; (Q1) Uzbekistan, Cuba, Sweden, China, Poland; (Q2) Spain, Hungary, Kyrgyzstan, Switzerland

84 kg - (Wc) Israel, Sweden, Slovakia, Norway, United States, Georgia,
Turkey, Belarus, France, Estonia, Greece; (Q1) Ukraine, Russia, Kyrgyzstan,
Italy, Egypt; (Q2) Armenia, Bulgaria, Iran, Japan

96 kg - (Wc) Sweden, Egypt, Georgia, Ukraine, Uzbekistan, Russia, Kyrgyzstan, Greece, Hungary, Germany, Poland; (Q1) Lithuania, Cuba, Bulgaria, Cuba, United States; (Q2) Belarus, Iran, Kazakhstan, Romania

120 kg - (Wc) Russia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Lithuania, Greece, Bulgaria, Finland, France, Armenia, United States, Belarus; (Q1) Turkey, Cuba, Georgia, Israel, Sweden; (Q2) Czech Republic, Iran, Italy, Poland
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By country

Armenia (3) - 66, 84, 120
Azerbaijan (3) - 60, 66, 74
Belarus (4) - 74, 84, 96, 120
Bulgaria (5) - 60, 66, 84, 96, 120
China (2) - 55, 74
Colombia (1) - 66
Cuba (6) - 55, 60, 66, 74, 96, 120
Czech Republic (2) - 55, 120
Denmark (1) - 55
Egypt (3) - 60, 84, 96
Estonia (1) - 84
Finland (2) - 74, 120
France (2) - 84, 120
Georgia (6) - 55, 60, 66, 84, 96, 120
Germany (4) - 60, 66, 74, 96
Greece (7) - all weights
Hungary (5) - 55, 66, 74, 96, 120
India (1) - 55
Iran (6) - 55, 60, 66, 84, 96, 120
Israel (3) - 74, 84, 120
Italy (3) - 60, 84, 120
Japan (4) - 55, 60, 74, 84
Kazakhstan (6) - 55, 60, 66, 74, 96, 120
Korea (4) - 55, 60, 66, 74
Kyrgyzstan (5) - 55, 66, 74, 84, 96
Lithuania (3) - 55, 96, 120
Norway (1) - 84
Poland (6) - 55, 60, 66, 74, 96, 120
Romania (3) - 55, 60, 96
Russia (7) - all
Serbia and Montenegro (1) - 60
Slovakia (1) - 84
Spain (2) - 66, 74
Sweden (5) - 66, 74, 84, 96, 120
Switzerland (1) - 74
Turkey (6) - 55, 60, 66, 84, 96, 120
Ukraine (6) - 55, 60, 66, 74, 84, 96
United States (6) - 55, 60, 66, 84, 96, 120
Uzbekistan (3) - 60, 74, 96
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By continent

Europe - 93
Asia - 31
Americas - 13
Africa - 3
Oceania - 0