List of World Championships medalists in wrestling (freestyle)
This is a List of World Championships medalists in men's freestyle wrestling.
Light flyweight
- 48 kg: 1969–1995
Flyweight
- 52 kg: 1951–1995
- 54 kg: 1997–2001
Bantamweight
- 57 kg: 1951–1995
- 58 kg: 1997–2001
- 55 kg: 2002–2013
- 57 kg: 2014–
Featherweight
- 62 kg: 1951–1961
- 63 kg: 1962–1967
- 62 kg: 1969–1995
- 63 kg: 1997–2001
- 60 kg: 2002–2013
- 61 kg: 2014–
Lightweight
- 67 kg: 1951–1961
- 70 kg: 1962–1967
- 68 kg: 1969–1995
- 69 kg: 1997–2001
- 66 kg: 2002–2013
- 65 kg: 2014–
Light welterweight
- 70 kg: 2014–
Games | Gold | Silver | Bronze |
---|---|---|---|
2014 Tashkent | Khetag Tsabolov (RUS) | Yakup Gör (TUR) | Ali Shabanau (BLR) |
Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (UZB) | |||
2015 Las Vegas | Magomedrasul Gazimagomedov (RUS) | Hassan Yazdani (IRI) | Yakup Gör (TUR) |
James Green (USA) | |||
2016 Budapest | Magomed Kurbanaliev (RUS) | Nurlan Bekzhanov (KAZ) | Mostafa Hosseinkhani (IRI) |
Elaman Dogdurbek Uulu (KGZ) | |||
2017 Paris | Frank Chamizo (ITA) | James Green (USA) | Yuhi Fujinami (JPN) |
Akzhurek Tanatarov (KAZ) |
Welterweight
- 73 kg: 1951–1961
- 78 kg: 1962–1967
- 74 kg: 1969–1995
- 76 kg: 1997–2001
- 74 kg: 2002–
Middleweight
- 79 kg: 1951–1961
- 87 kg: 1962–1967
- 82 kg: 1969–1995
- 85 kg: 1997–2001
- 84 kg: 2002–2013
- 86 kg: 2014–
Light heavyweight
- 87 kg: 1951–1961
- 97 kg: 1962–1967
- 90 kg: 1969–1995
Heavyweight
- +87 kg: 1951–1961
- +97 kg: 1962–1967
- 100 kg: 1969–1995
- 97 kg: 1997–2001
- 96 kg: 2002–2013
- 97 kg: 2014–
Super heavyweight
- +100 kg: 1969–1983
- 130 kg: 1985–2001
- 120 kg: 2002–2013
- 125 kg: 2014–
Medal table
Rank | Nation | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Soviet Union (URS) | 121 | 44 | 38 | 203 |
2 | Russia (RUS) | 50 | 17 | 30 | 97 |
3 | Iran (IRI) | 46 | 48 | 41 | 135 |
4 | United States (USA) | 41 | 46 | 49 | 136 |
5 | Turkey (TUR) | 29 | 25 | 31 | 85 |
6 | Japan (JPN) | 23 | 22 | 26 | 71 |
7 | Bulgaria (BUL) | 22 | 54 | 46 | 122 |
8 | Cuba (CUB) | 11 | 16 | 24 | 51 |
9 | North Korea (PRK) | 8 | 4 | 1 | 13 |
10 | Germany (GER) | 7 | 8 | 11 | 26 |
11 | Azerbaijan (AZE) | 6 | 11 | 11 | 28 |
12 | Georgia (GEO) | 6 | 7 | 15 | 28 |
13 | East Germany (GDR) | 5 | 15 | 17 | 37 |
14 | Ukraine (UKR) | 5 | 7 | 19 | 31 |
15 | Uzbekistan (UZB) | 5 | 6 | 13 | 24 |
16 | Armenia (ARM) | 5 | 0 | 5 | 10 |
17 | South Korea (KOR) | 4 | 10 | 8 | 22 |
18 | Mongolia (MGL) | 3 | 14 | 19 | 36 |
19 | Canada (CAN) | 2 | 5 | 6 | 13 |
20 | Belarus (BLR) | 2 | 3 | 10 | 15 |
21 | Sweden (SWE) | 2 | 3 | 6 | 11 |
22 | Italy (ITA) | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
23 | Hungary (HUN) | 1 | 8 | 11 | 20 |
24 | Romania (ROU) | 1 | 4 | 9 | 14 |
25 | India (IND) | 1 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
26 | Czechoslovakia (TCH) | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
27 | Moldova (MDA) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
28 | France (FRA) | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
29 | Poland (POL) | 0 | 7 | 6 | 13 |
30 | Finland (FIN) | 0 | 6 | 1 | 7 |
31 | Greece (GRE) | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 |
32 | Kazakhstan (KAZ) | 0 | 2 | 8 | 10 |
33 | Yugoslavia (YUG) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
34 | North Macedonia (MKD) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Puerto Rico (PUR) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Slovakia (SVK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
Tajikistan (TJK) | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | |
38 | Kyrgyzstan (KGZ) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
39 | Pakistan (PAK) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
40 | Albania (ALB) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Israel (ISR) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | |
Totals (41 entries) | 411 | 410 | 485 | 1306 |