EDMONTON -- Canada, China and Japan made a big impression Sunday as women's freestyle competition made its debut at the world university wrestling championships.     Canadians collected one gold, two silver and three bronze medals, as well as the team championship, with 56 points at the University of Alberta's main gym.     China was second in the team standings with 54 points. The Chinese secured one gold, four silver and one bronze medal.     Japan won four gold medals and one bronze in seven divisions. The Japanese were third with 53 points.     Hamilton's Pam Wilson closed out the competition with Canada's lone gold, in the 72-kilogram division. She defeated Samantha Branka of the U.S. on a fall at 1:41 of the first period.     Shannon Samler of North Vancouver and Viola Yanik of Saskatoon secured silvers for Canada, at 67 and 63 kg, respectively.     Lindsay Belisle of Hazelton, B.C., Emily Richardson of North Vancouver and Tonya Verbeek of Beamsville, Ont., added bronze for Canada, at 51-, 55- and 59-kg, respectively.     Yang Yangli won China's gold when she defeated Samler 7-4.     Three-time world champion Seiko Yamomoto was among Japan's gold medallists. She won at 55 kg, beating Verbeek 10-0 in her final match in a round-robin.     Mika Noguchi, Chiharu Icho and Saori Yoshida were Japan's other gold medallists, at 48, 51 and 59 kg, respectively.     Yamomoto won four matches without allowing a point. She opened with a win on a fall over Sarah Tolin of the U.S., beat Saira Martinez Zaldana of El Salvador by superiority, 11-0, then defeated China's Sun Dongmei 5-0 before her match against Verbeek.     Noguchi allowed one point in four consecutive wins. She won on falls in her first two matches, beat Belinda Chou of Chinese Taipei 5-1 in one semi-final and won on a fall over Zhong Xiue of China at 2:25 of the first period in the final.      Noguchi also had the distinction of beating Elizabeth Short of the U.S. on a fall, at 1:18 of the first period, in the first women's match in the fifth world championships.     Yoshida permitted two points in four straight wins. She had falls in her first two matches, won by superiority, 12-0, and defeated Su Huihua of China 8-2 in her gold-medal showdown.      Icho also won four consecutive matches and allowed just three points. She won her first two matches by superiority, 11-0 in each instance.     Malgorzata Bassa of Poland won the remaining gold medal, at 63 kg. She beat Yanik on a fall at 2:25 of the first period.     There were 42 competitors representing 12 countries. There were also 31 falls in 72 matches.         The competition will conclude with men's Greco Roman on Monday and Tuesday.         5TH WORLD UNIVERSITY WRESTLING CHAMPIOHSHIPS  WOMENS FREESTYLE TEAM STANDINGS      COUNTRY        POINTS    1. CANADA       56   2. CHINA       54  3. JAPAN       53  4. UNITED STATES       25  5. FRANCE       20  6. EL SALVADOR      19  7. MEXICO       19  8. KOREA       18  9. POLAND       10  10. CHINESE TAIPEI      8  11. GERMANY       7  12. ITALY       5                    Following are Sunday's women's freestyle results from the fifth world university wrestling championships in Edmonton:    48 kg  Gold-medal match    Mika Noguchi, Japan defeated Zhong Xieu, China by fall    Bonze-medal match    Belinda Chou, Chinese Taipei def. Lauriane Mary, France by fall     Semi-finals    Noguchi defeated Chou 5-1  Xieu def. Mary 7-4    Remaining final placements  5th - Maria Barraza Sanchez, Mexico; 6th - Ingrid Medrano Cuellar, El Salvador; 7th - Julie Harris, Canada (Edmonton); 8th - Elizabeth Short, U.S.; 9th - Yu-Jin Kim, Korea.    Preliminary matches  Noguchi def. Short by fall  Xiue def. Harris 8-3  Mary def. Kim 7-2  Barraza Sanchez def. Short by fall  Chou def. Harris by fall  Mary def. Medrano Cuellar by fall  Noguchi def. Barraza Shanchez by fall  Chou def. Xiue by fall  Medrano Cuellar def. Kim by fall  Xieu def. Barraza by superiority, 10-0  Barrazo def. Medrano Cuellar by fall  Xieu def. Medrano Cuellar by superiority, 11-1    51 kg  Round-robin results  Chiharu Icho, Japan def. Kera Pemberton, U.S. by superiority, 11-0  Gao Yanzhi, China def. Lindsay Belisle, Canada (Hazelton, B.C.) 9-4  Icho def. Liliana Rosales Alcantar, Mexico by superiority, 11-0  Belisle def. Pemberton by superiority, 11-0  Icho def. Yanzhi 5-1  Pemberton def. Rosales Alcantar 7-6  Icho def. Belisle 6-2  Yanzhi def. Rosales Alcantar by superiority, 11-0  Yanzhi def. Pemberton by fall  Belisle def. Rosales Alcantar by fall    Gold medallist - Icho; silver medallist - Yanzhi; bronze medallist - Belisle; 4th - Pemberton; 5th - Rosales Alcantar     55 kg  Round-robin results  Tonya Verbeek, Canada (Beamsville, Ont.) def. Saira Martinez Zaldana, El Salvador by superiority, 11-0  Seiko Yamomoto, Japan def. Sarah Tolin, U.S. by fall  Sun Dongmei, China def. Martinez Zaldana by fall  Verbeek def. Tolin by superiority, 11-0  Yamamoto def. Martinez Zaldana by superiority, 11-0  Dongmei def. Verbeek by fall  Martinez Zaldana def. Tolin by fall  Yamomoto def. Dongmei 5-0  Dongmei def. Tolin by injury forfeit    Gold medallist - Yamomoto; silver medallist - Dongmei; bronze medallist - Verbeek; 4th - Martinez Zoldana; 5th - Tolin    59 kg  Gold-medal match    Saori Yoshida, Japan def. Su Huihua, China 8-2    Bronze-medal match    Emily Richardson, Canada (North Vancouver) def. Meryem Selloum, France by fall     Remaining final placements    5th - Nan-Ha Cho, Korea; 6th - Filomena Curatella, Italy; 7th - Zonia Molina Barcenas, El Salvador; 8th - Erica Vargas, Mexico    Preliminary matches  Richardson def. Curatella by fall  Yoshida def. Vargas by fall  Huihua def. Molina Barcenas by superiority, 10-0  Selloum def. Cho by fall  Richardson def. Vargas by fall  Yoshida def. Curatella by fall  Cho def. Molina Barcenas 4-0  Huihua def. Selloum by superiority, 12-2  Yoshida def. Richardson by superiority, 12-0  Curatella def. Vargas 5-0  Selloum def. Molina Barcenas by fall  Huihua def. Cho by fall    63 kg  Gold-medal match    Malgorzata Bassa, Poland def. Viola Yanik, Canada (Saskatoon) by fall    Bronze-medal match    Xu Haiyan, China def. Stephanie Gross, Germany 4-0    Semi-finals    Bassa def. Haiyan 7-6 in overtime after a video replay  Yanik def. Gross 3-2 in overtime    Remaining final placements    5th - Nadia Moussaoui, France; 6th - Ayako Suga, Japan; 7th - Lil Azucena Canales, El Salvador; 8th - Liliana Hernandez, Mexico; 9th - Jin-Young Han, Korea      Preliminary matches  Suga def. Hang by injury forfeit  Haiyan def. Canales by fall  Moussaoui def. Hernandez by fall  Bassa def. Suga by fall  Haiyan def. Yanik 4-3  Gross def. Moussaoui 6-1  Bassa def. Hang by injury forfeit  Yanik def. Canales by superiority, 12-1  Gross def. Hernandez by fall  Yanik def. Suga 6-0  Moussaoui def. Suga 3-0  Yanik def. Moussaoui by superiority, 12-0    67 kg  Gold-medal match    Yang Yangli, China def. Shannon Samler, Canada (North Vancouver) 7-4    Preliminary round    Samler def. Nan-Ha Kim, Korea by forfeit (Kim wins bronze medal)    72 kg  Gold-medal match    Pam Wilson, Canada (Hamilton) def. Samantha Branka, U.S. by fall    Preliminary round    Wilson def. Ayako Murashima, Japan by superiority, 10-0