Wrestling World Championships

The world championships in wrestling are held annually by the FILA , with the exception of the years in which the Summer Olympic Games take place. The first world championship was held in Vienna in 1904. However, it is questionable whether the world championships that took place before the Second World War can be counted as official: mostly only participants from the host country took part, one could not speak of world championships. In addition to these world championships, there were numerous other world championships that are now considered unofficial. In 1923 there were the last wrestling world championships until 1950. From then on, the world championships were held regularly, except for the Olympic years. World wrestling championships have also been held for women since 1987. In contrast to men, women also wrestle in the Olympic years, since women's wrestling has only been Olympic since 2004 and competitions in all weight classes are not held at the Olympic Games.

overview

Abbreviations: Gwk = weight class / n. The most successful nation means the nation that comes first in the medal table. Alternatively, there is also a FILA points system.

	Greco-Roman		Freestyle		Women
WM	venue	Most successful nation	venue	Most successful nation	venue	Most successful nation	Gwk
1904	Vienna	Austria					2
1905	Berlin	Germany					3
1906	not carried out
1907	Frankfurt am Main	Denmark					3
1908	Vienna	Austria					2
1909	Vienna	Austria					2
1910	Dusseldorf	Germany					4th
1911	Helsinki	Finland					5
1912	not carried out
1913	Wroclaw	Sweden					4th
Failed 1914 to 1919
1920	Vienna	Austria					5
1921	Helsinki	Finland					6th
1922	Stockholm	Sweden					6th
1923 to 1949 not held
1950	Stockholm	Sweden					8th
1951			Helsinki	Turkey			8th
1952	not held because of the Olympic Games
1953	Naples	USSR					8th
1954			Tokyo	USSR			8th
1955	Karlsruhe	USSR					8th
1956	not held because of the Olympic Games
1957			Istanbul	Turkey			8th
1958	Budapest	USSR					8th
1959			Tehran	USSR			8th
1960	not held because of the Olympic Games
1961	Yokohama	USSR	Yokohama	Iran			8th
1962	Toledo	USSR	Toledo	USSR			8th
1963	Helsingborg	USSR	Sofia	USSR			8th
1964	not held because of the Olympic Games
1965	Tampere	USSR	Manchester	Iran			8th
1966	Toledo	USSR	Toledo	USSR			8th
1967	Bucharest	USSR	New Delhi	USSR			8th
1968	not held because of the Olympic Games
1969	Mar del Plata	USSR	Mar del Plata	USSR			10
1970	Edmonton	USSR	Edmonton	USSR			10
1971	Sofia	USSR	Sofia	USSR			10
1972	not held because of the Olympic Games
1973	Tehran	USSR	Tehran	USSR			10
1974	Katowice	USSR	Istanbul	USSR			10
1975	Minsk	USSR	Minsk	Iran			10
1976	not held because of the Olympic Games
1977	Gothenburg	USSR	Lausanne	USSR			10
1978	Mexico city	USSR	Mexico city	USSR			10
1979	San Diego	USSR	San Diego	USSR			10
1980	not held because of the Olympic Games
1981	Oslo	USSR	Skopje	USSR			10
1982	Katowice	USSR	Edmonton	USSR			10
1983	Kiev	USSR	Kiev	USSR			10
1984	not held because of the Olympic Games
1985	Kolbotn	USSR	Budapest	USSR			10
1986	Budapest	USSR	Budapest	USSR			10
1987	Clermont-Ferrand	USSR	Clermont-Ferrand	USSR	Lørenskog	France	10/10/9
1988	not held because of the Olympic Games
1989	Martigny	USSR	Martigny	USSR	Martigny	France	10/10/9
1990	Ostia	USSR	Tokyo	USSR	Luleå	Japan	10/10/9
1991	Varna	USSR	Varna	USSR	Tokyo	Japan	10/10/9
1992	not held because of the Olympic Games				Villeurbanne	China	9
1993	Stockholm	Russia	Toronto	United States	Stavern	China	10
1994	Tampere	Russia	Istanbul	Turkey & Cuba	Sofia	Japan	10
1995	Prague	Russia	Atlanta	United States	Moscow	Japan	10/10/9
1996	not held because of the Olympic Games				Sofia	Japan	9
1997	Wroclaw	Russia	Krasnoyarsk	Russia	Clermont-Ferrand	France	8/8/6
1998	Gävle	Russia	Tehran	Iran	Poses	Japan	8/8/6
1999	Athens	Russia	Ankara	Russia	Boden , Hildursborg	Japan	8/8/6
2000	not held because of the Olympic Games				Sofia	Japan	6th
2001	Patras	Russia	Sofia	Russia	Sofia	Japan	8/8/6
2002	Moscow	Russia	Tehran	Russia	Chalkida	Japan	7th
2003	Créteil	Russia	New York City	Russia	New York City	Japan	7th
2004	not held because of the Olympic Games
2005	Budapest	Bulgaria	Budapest	Russia	Budapest	Japan	7th
2006	Guangzhou	Russia	Guangzhou	Russia	Guangzhou	Japan	7th
2007	Baku	Georgia	Baku	Russia	Baku	Japan	7th
2008	not held because of the Olympic Games				Tokyo	Japan	7th
2009	Herning	Turkey	Herning	Russia	Herning	Azerbaijan	7th
2010	Moscow	Iran	Moscow	Russia	Moscow	Japan	7th
2011	Istanbul	Iran	Istanbul	Iran & Russia	Istanbul	Japan	7th
2012	not held because of the Olympic Games				Sherwood Park	United States	7th
2013	Budapest	South Korea	Budapest	Iran	Budapest	Japan	7th
2014	Tashkent	Armenia	Tashkent	Russia	Tashkent	Japan	8th
2015	Las Vegas	Turkey	Las Vegas	Russia	Las Vegas	Japan	8th
2016	Budapest	Hungary	Budapest	Russia	Budapest	China and Japan	2
2017	Paris		Paris		Paris		8th
2018	Budapest		Budapest		Budapest
2019	Nur-Sultan		Nur-Sultan		Nur-Sultan
2021	Oslo		Oslo		Oslo

Medal table

Status: May 14, 2020. The unofficial World Championships of 1910 and 1911 are excluded.

Wrestling
Item	country				Total
1	Soviet Union	253	93	69	415
2	Japan	117	68	75	260
3	Russia	111	69	96	276
4th	United States	70	90	93	253
5	Bulgaria	62	93	100	255
6th	Iran	60	58	72	190
7th	Turkey	54	59	72	185
8th	Germany with FR Germany and with German Democratic Republic	39	63	85	187
9	Sweden	32	40	46	118
10	Hungary	30th	46	51	127
11	Cuba	30th	28	47	105
12	People's Republic of China	27	20th	31	78
13	France	26th	22nd	23	71
14th	Finland	22nd	26th	25th	73
15th	Ukraine	19th	19th	49	87
16	Romania	15th	32	35	82
17th	Azerbaijan	15th	27	30th	72
18th	South Korea	15th	23	25th	63
19th	Georgia	15th	13	30th	58
20th	Poland	14th	38	33	85
21st	Canada	14th	18th	29	61
22nd	Norway	12	16	26th	54
23	Armenia	12	9	15th	36
24	Austria	11	9	8th	28
25th	North Korea	9	5	11	25th
26th	Mongolia	7th	21st	35	63
27	Belarus	6th	16	25th	47
28	Uzbekistan	6th	10	19th	35
29	Yugoslavia	5	19th	17th	41
30th	Kazakhstan	5	17th	30th	52
31	Denmark	4th	7th	10	21st
32	Italy	3	8th	12	22nd
33	Czechoslovakia	3	6th	11	21st
34	Venezuela	3	4th	5	12
35	Egypt	2	2	4th	8th
36	Serbia	2	1	6th	9
37	Moldova	1	6th	1	8th
38	Chinese Taipei	1	5	6th	12
39	India	1	4th	12	17th
40	Estonia	1	3	4th	8th
41	Greece	1	3	11	15th
42	Kyrgyzstan	1	2	8th	11
43	Israel	1	1	4th	6th
44	Belgium	-	1	2
45	United Arab Emirates	1	-	-	1
46	Czech Republic	-	2	3	5
47	Nigeria	-	1	4th	4th
48	Netherlands	-	1	3	4th
48	Latvia	-	1	3	4th
50	Puerto Rico	-	1	2	3
50	Lithuania	-	1	2	3
50	Croatia	-	1	2	3
50	Slovakia	-	1	2	3
54	Lebanon	-	1	1	2
54	North Macedonia	1	1	2
56	Turkmenistan	-	1	-	1
56	Tajikistan	-	1	-	1
56	Brazil	-	1	-	1
56	Tunisia	-	1	-	1
56	Brunei	-	1	-	1
61	Spain	-	-	3	3
61	Switzerland	-	-	3	3
63	Bohemia	-	-	2	2
63	Pakistan	-	-	2	2
64	Argentina	-	-	1	1
64	Syria	-	-	1	1
64	United Kingdom	-	-	1	1
64	Colombia	-	-	1	1
64	Chile	-	-	1	1
64	Albania	-	-	1	1
Total		1140	1135	1436	3711

Most successful medalists

space	Surname	country	From	To				total
01	Saori Yoshida	Japan	2002	2015	13	-	-	13
02	Kaori Icho	Japan	2002	2015	10	-	-	10
03	Alexander Karelin	Russia	1989	1999	9	-	-	9
04th	Hitomi Sakamoto	Japan	2000	2011	8th	-	-	8th
05	Valentin Jordanow	Bulgaria	1983	1995	7th	2	1	10
06th	Alexander Medved	Soviet Union	1961	1971	7th	1	1	9
07th	Christine Nordhagen	Canada	1993	2003	6th	1	1	8th
08th	Yayoi Urano	Japan	1990	1996	6th	1	-	7th
08th	Sergei Beloglasov	Soviet Union	1979	1987	6th	1	-	7th
08th	Arsen Fadzayev	Soviet Union	1983	1991	6th	1	-	7th
011	Buwaissar Saitijew	Russia	1995	2006	6th	-	-	6th
011	Hamid Soryan Reihanpour	Iran	2005	2014	6th	-	-	6th
013	Kyōko Hamaguchi	Japan	1997	2010	5	2	3	10
014th	Macharbek Chadarzew	Soviet Union	1986	1995	5	2	1	8th
015th	Xiue Zhong	People's Republic of China	1991	1999	5	2	-	7th
015th	Mijaín López	Poland	1977	1981	5	2	-	7th
017th	Shoko Yoshimura	Japan	1987	1996	5	1	3	9
018th	Khadzhimurad Gazalov	Russia	2005	2014	5	1	1	7th
019th	Ali Aliyev	Soviet Union	1959	1967	5	1	-	6th
020th	Dong Feng Liu	People's Republic of China	1991	1997	5	-	1	6th
020th	Leri Chabelowi	Russia	1985	1995	5	-	1	6th
020th	Gogi Koguashvili	Russia	1993	1999	5	-	1	6th
020th	Stanka Slatewa	Bulgaria	2006	2011	5	-	1	6th
024	Nikola Hartmann-Dünser	Austria	1993	2000	5	-	-	5
024	Abdollah Movahed	Iran	1965	1970	5	-	-	5
024	Viktor Igumenov	Soviet Union	1966	1971	5	-	-	5
024	Valery Resanzew	Soviet Union	1970	1975	5	-	-	6th
024	Alexandar Tomov	Bulgaria	1971	1979	5	-	-	5
024	Nikolai Balboschin	Soviet Union	1973	1979	5	-	-	5
030th	Anna Gomis	France	1993	2010	4th	2	2	8th
031	Tricia Saunders	United States	1992	2000	4th	2	-	6th
032	Gudrun Annette Höie	Norway	1989	1999	4th	1	1	6th
032	Vladimir Jumin	Soviet Union	1973	1979	4th	1	1	6th
034	Levan Tediashvili	Soviet Union	1971	1978	4th	1	-	5
034	Soslan Andiev	Soviet Union	1973	1978	4th	1	-	5
034	Vladimir Zubkove	Soviet Union	1970	1975	4th	1	-	5
034	Bessik Kuduchow	Russia	2006	2011	4th	1	-	5
038	Hüseyin Akbaş	Turkey	1954	1962	4th	-	2	6th
039	Yūji Takada	Japan	1973	1979	4th	-	1	5
039	Ayako Shōda	Japan	1999	2010	4th	-	1	5
0130	Rıza Kayaalp	Turkey	2009	Present	3	2	2	7th
059	Maik Bullmann	Germany	1989	1994	3	1	1	5
088	Uwe Neupert	Germany	1977	1989	2	2	4th	8th

See also

• Junior Wrestling World Championships
• African wrestling championships
• Asian wrestling championships
• European wrestling championships
• Oceania Wrestling Championships
• Pan American Wrestling Championships
• www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/service/datenbanken/wettkampfresultate/results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Astana to Host 2019 Senior Wrestling World Championships. In: unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling , September 24, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Tim Foley: Wrestling elects New Bureau Members, Announces host cities through 2021. In: unitedworldwrestling.org. United World Wrestling , October 19, 2018, accessed October 26, 2018 .