The 1996 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Xiaoshan, China. The event took place from April 4 to April 10, 1996. It acted as the Asian qualifying tournament for the 1996 Summer Olympics wrestling tournament.

The first women's tournament was an open competition, an American wrestler Tricia Saunders was the only non-Asian wrestler in competition and won the gold.

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	8	5	5	18
2	South Korea	5	5	1	11
3	Kazakhstan	4	2	3	9
4	Iran	3	1	6	10
5	Uzbekistan	3	1	2	6
6	China	2	5	3	10
7	North Korea	2	1	0	3
8	Syria	1	0	0	1
–	United States	1	0	0	1
9	Chinese Taipei	0	5	3	8
10	Mongolia	0	3	0	3
11	Turkmenistan	0	1	0	1
12	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	3	3
13	Philippines	0	0	2	2
Totals (13 entries)		29	29	28	86

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	78	South Korea	83	Japan	87
2	South Korea	70	China	71	Chinese Taipei	76
3	Japan	66	Kazakhstan	70	China	45
4	Uzbekistan	59	Japan	68	Philippines	22
5	Mongolia	51	Uzbekistan		Kazakhstan	15

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Kim Il  North Korea	Luvsan-Ishiin Sergelenbaatar  Mongolia	Vladimir Torgovkin  Kyrgyzstan
52 kg	Adkhamjon Achilov  Uzbekistan	Hideo Sasayama  Japan	Behnam Tayyebi  Iran
57 kg	Ri Yong-sam  North Korea	Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar  Mongolia	Mohammad Talaei  Iran
62 kg	Takahiro Wada  Japan	Jang Jae-sung  South Korea	Abbas Hajkenari  Iran
68 kg	Boris Budayev  Uzbekistan	Hwang Sang-ho  South Korea	Amir Tavakkolian  Iran
74 kg	Park Jang-soon  South Korea	Magomed Kurugliyev  Kazakhstan	Issa Momeni  Iran
82 kg	Ruslan Khinchagov  Uzbekistan	Yang Hyung-mo  South Korea	Alireza Heidari  Iran
90 kg	Rasoul Khadem  Iran	Islam Bayramukov  Kazakhstan	Tatsuo Kawai  Japan
100 kg	Abbas Jadidi  Iran	Dolgorsürengiin Sumiyaabazar  Mongolia	Konstantin Aleksandrov  Kyrgyzstan
130 kg	Ebrahim Mehraban  Iran	Feng Aigang  China	Igor Klimov  Kazakhstan

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg	Sim Kwon-ho  South Korea	Kang Yong-gyun  North Korea	Hiroshi Kado  Japan
52 kg	Khaled Al-Faraj  Syria	Ha Tae-yeon  South Korea	Shamsiddin Khudoyberdiev  Uzbekistan
57 kg	Yuriy Melnichenko  Kazakhstan	Kenkichi Nishimi  Japan	Sheng Zetian  China
62 kg	Choi Sang-sun  South Korea	Ahad Pazaj  Iran	Hu Guohong  China
68 kg	Son Sang-pil  South Korea	Grigori Pulyaev  Uzbekistan	Yasushi Miyake  Japan
74 kg	Kim Jin-soo  South Korea	Takamitsu Katayama  Japan	Bakhtiyar Baiseitov  Kazakhstan
82 kg	Daulet Turlykhanov  Kazakhstan	Park Myung-suk  South Korea	Raatbek Sanatbayev  Kyrgyzstan
90 kg	Sergey Matviyenko  Kazakhstan	Rozy Rejepow  Turkmenistan	Eom Jin-han  South Korea
100 kg	Anatoly Fedorenko  Kazakhstan	Ba Yanchuan  China	Takashi Nonomura  Japan
130 kg	Liu Guoke  China	Kenichi Suzuki  Japan	Shermuhammad Quziev  Uzbekistan

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
44 kg	Shoko Yoshimura  Japan	Chiu Jui-fen  Chinese Taipei	Cristina Villanueva  Philippines
47 kg	Miho Adachi  Japan	Zhong Xiue  China	Chang Wen-hsia  Chinese Taipei
50 kg	Tricia Saunders  United States	Kozue Kimura  Japan	Liu Hongmei  China
53 kg	Ryoko Sakae  Japan	Huang Chiu-yueh  Chinese Taipei	Gemma Silverio  Philippines
57 kg	Mariko Shimizu  Japan	Huang Chia-chi  Chinese Taipei	Svetlana Volkova  Kazakhstan
61 kg	Mikiko Miyazaki  Japan	Kong Yan  China	Huang Wan-ling  Chinese Taipei
65 kg	Yayoi Urano  Japan	Wang Chaoli  China	Wu Huei-li  Chinese Taipei
70 kg	Kyoko Hamaguchi  Japan	Lee Yen-hiu  Chinese Taipei	None awarded
75 kg	Liu Dongfeng  China	Sha Ling-li  Chinese Taipei	Reiko Sumiya  Japan

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