2023 World Wrestling Championships

The 2023 World Wrestling Championships was held from 16 to 24 September 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Wrestlers get a chance to win 90 quotas for the 2024 Summer Olympics from the Belgrade Worlds. Any nation that participated in the 2023 continental championships was eligible to participate in the World Championships.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

2023 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Belgrade, Serbia
Dates	16–24 September 2023
Stadium	Štark Arena
Champions
Freestyle	United States
Greco-Roman	Azerbaijan
Women	Japan
← 2022 2024 →

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	6	3	3	12
2	United States	4	3	7	14
3	Kyrgyzstan	3	1	1	5
4	Azerbaijan	2	5	0	7
5	Iran	2	3	4	9
–	Individual Neutral Athletes	2	2	2	6
6	Turkey	2	1	4	7
7	Hungary	2	1	0	3
8	Cuba	2	0	1	3
9	Georgia	1	3	2	6
10	Serbia	1	0	4	5
11	China	1	0	3	4
12	Kazakhstan	1	0	2	3
13	France	1	0	1	2
14	Bahrain	1	0	0	1
15	Mongolia	0	3	0	3
16	Armenia	0	1	4	5
	Ukraine	0	1	4	5
18	Moldova	0	1	2	3
19	Puerto Rico	0	1	0	1
20	Bulgaria	0	0	3	3
21	Norway	0	0	2	2
	Uzbekistan	0	0	2	2
23	Albania	0	0	1	1
	Colombia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Ecuador	0	0	1	1
	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	Germany	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	San Marino	0	0	1	1
	United World Wrestling	0	0	1	1
Totals (31 entries)		31	29	60	120

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	United States	148	Azerbaijan	120	Japan	195
2	Iran	110	Iran	102	United States	135
3	Georgia	80	Turkey	93	Mongolia	80
4	Kazakhstan	74	Cuba	73	China	65
5	Azerbaijan	66	Armenia	65	Ukraine	59
6	Japan	61	Kyrgyzstan	60	Moldova	58
7	Armenia	49	Georgia	59	Turkey	55
8	Turkey	42	Hungary	57	Kyrgyzstan	47
9	Serbia	40	Uzbekistan	52	United World Wrestling	39
10	Hungary	37	Serbia	49	Germany	35

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg details	Stevan Mićić  Serbia	Rei Higuchi  Japan	Arsen Harutyunyan  Armenia
			Zelimkhan Abakarov  Albania
61 kg details	Vito Arujau  United States	Abasgadzhi Magomedov Individual Neutral Athletes	Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu  Kyrgyzstan
			Shota Phartenadze  Georgia
65 kg details	Iszmail Muszukajev  Hungary	Sebastian Rivera  Puerto Rico	Shamil Mamedov Individual Neutral Athletes
			Vazgen Tevanyan  Armenia
70 kg details	Zain Retherford  United States	Amir Mohammad Yazdani  Iran	Ramazan Ramazanov  Bulgaria
			Arman Andreasyan  Armenia
74 kg details	Zaurbek Sidakov Individual Neutral Athletes	Kyle Dake  United States	Khetag Tsabolov  Serbia
			Daichi Takatani  Japan
79 kg details	Akhmed Usmanov Individual Neutral Athletes	Vladimeri Gamkrelidze  Georgia	Mohammad Nokhodi  Iran
			Vasyl Mykhailov  Ukraine
86 kg details	David Taylor  United States	Hassan Yazdani  Iran	Myles Amine  San Marino
			Azamat Dauletbekov  Kazakhstan
92 kg details	Rizabek Aitmukhan  Kazakhstan	Osman Nurmagomedov  Azerbaijan	Feyzullah Aktürk  Turkey
			Zahid Valencia  United States
97 kg details	Akhmed Tazhudinov  Bahrain	Magomedkhan Magomedov  Azerbaijan	Kyle Snyder  United States
			Givi Matcharashvili  Georgia
125 kg details	Amir Hossein Zare  Iran	Geno Petriashvili  Georgia	Taha Akgül  Turkey
			Mason Parris  United States

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Eldaniz Azizli  Azerbaijan	Nugzari Tsurtsumia  Georgia	Pouya Dadmarz  Iran
			Jasurbek Ortikboev  Uzbekistan
60 kg details	Zholaman Sharshenbekov  Kyrgyzstan	Kenichiro Fumita  Japan	Cao Liguo  China
			Islomjon Bakhromov  Uzbekistan
63 kg details	Leri Abuladze  Georgia	Murad Mammadov  Azerbaijan	Enes Başar  Turkey
			Georgii Tibilov  Serbia
67 kg details	Luis Orta  Cuba	Hasrat Jafarov  Azerbaijan	Mate Nemeš  Serbia
			Mohammad Reza Geraei  Iran
72 kg details	Ibrahim Ghanem  France	Róbert Fritsch  Hungary	Selçuk Can  Turkey
			Ali Arsalan  Serbia
77 kg details	Akzhol Makhmudov  Kyrgyzstan	Sanan Suleymanov  Azerbaijan	Malkhas Amoyan  Armenia
			Nao Kusaka  Japan
82 kg details	Rafig Huseynov  Azerbaijan	Alireza Mohmadi  Iran	Aues Gonibov Individual Neutral Athletes
			Yaroslav Filchakov  Ukraine
87 kg details	Ali Cengiz  Turkey	Shared gold	Zhan Beleniuk  Ukraine
	Dávid Losonczi  Hungary		Semen Novikov  Bulgaria
97 kg details	Gabriel Rosillo  Cuba	Artur Aleksanyan  Armenia	Artur Omarov  Czech Republic
			Mohammad Hadi Saravi  Iran
130 kg details	Amin Mirzazadeh  Iran	Rıza Kayaalp  Turkey	Abdellatif Mohamed  Egypt
			Óscar Pino  Cuba

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg details	Yui Susaki  Japan	Dolgorjavyn Otgonjargal  Mongolia	Feng Ziqi  China
			Sarah Hildebrandt  United States
53 kg details	Akari Fujinami  Japan	Vanesa Kaladzinskaya Individual Neutral Athletes	Lucía Yépez  Ecuador
			Antim Panghal United World Wrestling
55 kg details	Haruna Okuno  Japan	Jacarra Winchester  United States	Mariana Drăguțan  Moldova
			Anastasia Blayvas  Germany
57 kg details	Tsugumi Sakurai  Japan	Anastasia Nichita  Moldova	Odunayo Adekuoroye  Nigeria
			Helen Maroulis  United States
59 kg details	Zhang Qi  China	Yuliya Tkach  Ukraine	Jennifer Rogers  United States
			Othelie Høie  Norway
62 kg details	Aisuluu Tynybekova  Kyrgyzstan	Sakura Motoki  Japan	Grace Bullen  Norway
			Iryna Koliadenko  Ukraine
65 kg details	Nonoka Ozaki  Japan	Macey Kilty  United States	Mimi Hristova  Bulgaria
			Lili  China
68 kg details	Buse Tosun Çavuşoğlu  Turkey	Enkhsaikhany Delgermaa  Mongolia	Koumba Larroque  France
			Irina Rîngaci  Moldova
72 kg details	Amit Elor  United States	Enkh-Amaryn Davaanasan  Mongolia	Zhamila Bakbergenova  Kazakhstan
			Miwa Morikawa  Japan
76 kg details	Yuka Kagami  Japan	Aiperi Medet Kyzy  Kyrgyzstan	Tatiana Rentería  Colombia
			Adeline Gray  United States

Paris 2024 qualification

NOC	Men's freestyle						Men's Greco-Roman						Women's freestyle						Total
	57	65	74	86	97	125	60	67	77	87	97	130	50	53	57	62	68	76
Albania																			1
Armenia																			5
Azerbaijan																			3
Bahrain																			1
Bulgaria																			1
China																			3
Colombia																			1
Cuba																			4
Czech Republic																			1
Ecuador																			1
Egypt																			1
France																			1
Georgia																			2
Germany																			1
Greece																			1
Hungary																			2
India																			1
Individual Neutral Athletes																			6
Iran																			7
Japan																			10
Kazakhstan																			2
Kyrgyzstan																			4
Moldova																			2
Mongolia																			2
Nigeria																			1
Norway																			1
Poland																			1
Puerto Rico																			1
San Marino																			1
Serbia																			3
Sweden																			1
Turkey																			6
Ukraine																			2
United States																			7
Uzbekistan																			3
Total: 35 NOCs	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	5	90

Participating nations

940 competitors from 88 nations and 2 other teams participated.

•  Albania (6)
•  Algeria (8)
•  Angola (1)
•  Argentina (2)
•  Armenia (17)
•  Australia (3)
•  Austria (7)
•  Azerbaijan (26)
•  Bahrain (4)
•  Barbados (1)
•  Belgium (1)
•  Brazil (9)
•  Bulgaria (22)
•  Cambodia (1)
•  Canada (19)
•  Cape Verde (3)
•  Chile (2)
•  China (29)
•  Colombia (12)
•  Comoros (2)
•  Costa Rica (1)
•  Croatia (6)
•  Cuba (11)
•  Czech Republic (4)
•  Denmark (2)
•  Ecuador (7)
•  Egypt (11)
•  El Salvador (1)
•  Estonia (7)
•  Federated States of Micronesia (1)
•  Finland (5)
•  France (14)
•  Georgia (20)
•  Germany (22)
•  Greece (5)
•  Guam (5)
•  Guinea-Bissau (1)
•  Honduras (1)
•  Hungary (22)
• Individual Neutral Athletes (56)
•  Iran (20)
•  Israel (8)
•  Italy (17)
•  Ivory Coast (2)
•  Jamaica (1)
•  Japan (30)
•  Jordan (2)
•  Kazakhstan (29)
•  Kenya (13)
•  Kyrgyzstan (19)
•  Latvia (4)
•  Lithuania (13)
•  Mexico (19)
•  Moldova (20)
•  Mongolia (20)
•  Morocco (2)
•  Netherlands (2)
•  Nigeria (6)
•  Norway (8)
•  North Macedonia (8)
•  Pakistan (3)
•  Palestine (1)
•  Peru (2)
•  Poland (22)
•  Puerto Rico (7)
•  Romania (16)
•  San Marino (2)
•  Serbia (17)
•  Sierra Leone (1)
•  Slovakia (5)
•  South Africa (1)
•  South Korea (26)
•  Spain (9)
•  Sri Lanka (2)
•  Sudan (1)
•  Sweden (10)
•  Switzerland (9)
•  Tajikistan (6)
•  Tonga (1)
•  Tunisia (3)
•  Turkey (30)
•  Turkmenistan (12)
•  Uganda (2)
•  Ukraine (30)
•  United States (30)
• United World Wrestling (32)
•  Uzbekistan (26)
•  Venezuela (10)
•  Vietnam (3)
•  Yemen (1)

• As a result of sanctions imposed following the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, wrestlers from Russia and Belarus were not permitted to use the name, flag, or anthem of Russia or Belarus. They instead participated as Individual Neutral Athletes (Athlètes Individuels Neutres in French) according to an IOC decision implemented by the UWW. No flags at all were used for these delegations, not even the UWW flag. The UWW does not include the medals won by these wrestlers in the official medal table, their results were not counted in the team rankings.
• As a result of sanctions by the UWW imposed on the Wrestling Federation of India for not conducting its elections on time, wrestlers from India were not permitted to use the name, flag, or anthem of India. They instead participated under the name and the flag of the United World Wrestling (UWW). Beside that two refugee wrestlers also participated under the UWW name.

Controversies

United World Wrestling (UWW) authorized some Russian wrestlers to participate in the World Championships though they had participated in the pro-war rally and expressed their support for the Russo-Ukrainian war.^[6] The athletes in question included Abdulrashid Sadulaev, Zaurbek Sidakov, and Zaur Uguev.^[7] This decision contradicted the IOC's recommendations.^[8] UWW explained its decision to clear them for the World Championships by stating that their participation in certain events was not of their own will and their support for the war and the policy of their government could not be certainly concluded.^[9] In general, Individual Neutral Athletes won 2 gold, 2 silver and 2 bronze medals: athletes from Russia (Aues Gonibov, Abasgadzhi Magomedov, Shamil Mamedov, Zaurbek Sidakov and Akhmed Usmanov) won 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals while athletes from Belarus (Vanesa Kaladzinskaya) – 1 silver medal.