NEW YORK -- Former Stanford star Patricia Miranda advanced to Sunday's 105-pound finals in the women's competition at the World Wrestling Championships with a berth to the 2004 Summer Olympics on the line.

Miranda won a technical fall over France's Angelique Michele Berthenet by an 11-1 score on Saturday night.

"I just feel like the sports is so much more a part of me now (than in 2000)," said Miranda who wrestles for the Dave Schultz Wrestling Club. "Then, I knew two or three positions. Now, I basically know about a dozen moves, but I also know how to control the match."

Overall, the U.S. women's wrestling team has assured itself a medal in every weight class by winning two third-place matches earlier Sunday at freestyle wrestling's world championships.

Both U.S. men's semifinalists advanced to Sunday night's finals. With wins Saturday, the American men qualified for five of seven Olympic divisions.

The championships are a qualifying event for the Athens Olympics, and the top 10 men and top five women of each Olympic weight class qualify their nation for the games.

Jenny Wong and Sally Roberts each won bronze medals after losing semifinal matches earlier in the day.

Women's wrestling will be an Olympic event for the first time at the 2004 Games, and the Americans have four wrestlers in the finals of the four weight classes that will be featured: Miranda at 105 pounds, Tina George at 121, Sara McMann at 139 and Tocarra Montgomery at 159. Kristie Marano will also compete for the world title at 148.

Cael Sanderson beat Georgia's Revaz Mindorashvili in the semifinals of the 185-pound division, and Kerry McCoy pinned Iran's Ali Reza Rezai to advance to the finals of the 265-pound class.

Other women's bronze medalists included China's Li Hui in the 105-pound class, Russia's Natalia Golts at 121, Canada's Viola Yanik at 139, Russia's Svetlana Martynenko at 148 and China's Wang Xu at 159.

Men's bronze medalists included Ukraine's Oleksandr Zakharuk at 121, South Korea's Jae Myung Song at 132, Japan's Ikematsu Kazuhiko at 146, Kazakhstan's Gennadiv Laliyev at 163, Mindorashvili at 185, Bulgaria's Krassimir Simeonov Kotchev at 211 and Rezaei at 265.