2015 World Wrestling Championships

2015 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Las Vegas, United States
Dates	7–12 September 2015
Stadium	Orleans Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Iran
Greco-Roman	Azerbaijan
Women	Japan
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The 2015 UWW World Wrestling Championships were the 12th edition of World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from September 7 to 12 at Orleans Arena in Paradise, Nevada, in the Las Vegas Valley, United States. ^[1]

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	4	1	6	11
2	United States	4	0	4	8
3	Turkey	3	1	2	6
4	Japan	3	1	1	5
5	Azerbaijan	2	4	2	8
6	Ukraine	2	1	6	9
7	Mongolia	1	3	1	5
8	Cuba	1	1	0	2
9	Georgia	1	0	4	5
10	Armenia	1	0	1	2
	Germany	1	0	1	2
12	Italy	1	0	0	1
13	Iran	0	3	4	7
14	China	0	2	0	2
	Uzbekistan	0	2	0	2
16	Belarus	0	1	1	2
	Sweden	0	1	1	2
18	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	Finland	0	1	0	1
	South Korea	0	1	0	1
21	Bulgaria	0	0	4	4
22	Kazakhstan	0	0	2	2
	North Korea	0	0	2	2
24	Canada	0	0	1	1
	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	India	0	0	1	1
	Netherlands	0	0	1	1
	Nigeria	0	0	1	1
	Serbia	0	0	1	1
Totals (29 entries)		24	24	48	96

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	49	Azerbaijan	39	Japan	51
2	Georgia	46	Russia	38	China	42
3	Russia	44	Ukraine	35	United States	31
4	Mongolia	41	Iran	31	Ukraine	30
5	Azerbaijan	40	Kazakhstan	23	Russia	29
6	Turkey	34	Belarus	21	Azerbaijan	29
7	United States	29	Turkey	20	Mongolia	27
8	Bulgaria	23	Germany	20	Bulgaria	24
9	Ukraine	20	United States	20	Sweden	21
10	India	14	Cuba	19	Belarus	19

• Russia originally won both men's team titles in Las Vegas but eventually lost them to Iran ^[2] and Azerbaijan ten years later after the disqualification of Bilyal Makhov and Abdusalam Gadisov. ^[3]

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg details	Vladimer Khinchegashvili   Georgia	Hassan Rahimi   Iran	Erdenebatyn Bekhbayar   Mongolia
			Viktor Lebedev   Russia
61 kg details	Haji Aliyev   Azerbaijan	Batboldyn Nomin   Mongolia	Vladimir Dubov   Bulgaria
			Vasyl Shuptar   Ukraine
65 kg details	Frank Chamizo   Italy	Ikhtiyor Navruzov   Uzbekistan	Soslan Ramonov   Russia
			Ahmad Mohammadi   Iran
70 kg details	Magomedrasul Gazimagomedov   Russia	Hassan Yazdani   Iran	Yakup Gör   Turkey
			James Green   United States
74 kg details	Jordan Burroughs   United States	Pürevjavyn Önörbat   Mongolia	Narsingh Yadav   India
			Aniuar Geduev   Russia
86 kg details	Abdulrashid Sadulaev   Russia	Selim Yaşar   Turkey	Sandro Aminashvili   Georgia
			Alireza Karimi   Iran
97 kg details	Kyle Snyder   United States	Khetag Gazyumov   Azerbaijan	Elizbar Odikadze   Georgia
			Pavlo Oliynyk   Ukraine
125 kg details	Taha Akgül   Turkey	Jamaladdin Magomedov   Azerbaijan	Geno Petriashvili   Georgia
			Levan Berianidze   Armenia

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
59 kg details	Ismael Borrero   Cuba	Rovshan Bayramov   Azerbaijan	Yun Won-chol   North Korea
			Almat Kebispayev   Kazakhstan
66 kg details	Frank Stäbler   Germany	Ryu Han-su   South Korea	Davor Štefanek   Serbia
			Artem Surkov   Russia
71 kg details	Rasul Chunayev   Azerbaijan	Armen Vardanyan   Ukraine	Adam Kurak   Russia
			Zakarias Tallroth   Sweden
75 kg details	Roman Vlasov   Russia	Mark Madsen   Denmark	Andy Bisek   United States
			Doszhan Kartikov   Kazakhstan
80 kg details	Selçuk Çebi   Turkey	Viktar Sasunouski   Belarus	Yousef Ghaderian   Iran
			Lasha Gobadze   Georgia
85 kg details	Zhan Beleniuk   Ukraine	Rustam Assakalov   Uzbekistan	Habibollah Akhlaghi   Iran
			Saman Tahmasebi   Azerbaijan
98 kg details	Artur Aleksanyan   Armenia	Ghasem Rezaei   Iran	Islam Magomedov   Russia
			Dimitriy Timchenko   Ukraine
130 kg details	Rıza Kayaalp   Turkey	Mijaín López   Cuba	Oleksandr Chernetskyi   Ukraine
			Robby Smith   United States

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Eri Tosaka   Japan	Mariya Stadnik   Azerbaijan	Jessica Blaszka   Netherlands
			Geneviève Morrison   Canada
53 kg details	Saori Yoshida   Japan	Sofia Mattsson   Sweden	Jong Myong-suk   North Korea
			Odunayo Adekuoroye   Nigeria
55 kg details	Helen Maroulis   United States	Irina Ologonova   Russia	Evelina Nikolova   Bulgaria
			Tetyana Kit   Ukraine
58 kg details	Kaori Icho   Japan	Petra Olli   Finland	Elif Jale Yeşilırmak   Turkey
			Yuliya Ratkevich   Azerbaijan
60 kg details	Oksana Herhel   Ukraine	Sükheegiin Tserenchimed   Mongolia	Dzhanan Manolova   Bulgaria
			Leigh Jaynes   United States
63 kg details	Soronzonboldyn Battsetseg   Mongolia	Risako Kawai   Japan	Yuliya Tkach   Ukraine
			Taybe Yusein   Bulgaria
69 kg details	Natalia Vorobieva   Russia	Zhou Feng   China	Sara Dosho   Japan
			Aline Focken   Germany
75 kg details	Adeline Gray   United States	Zhou Qian   China	Vasilisa Marzaliuk   Belarus
			Epp Mäe   Estonia

Participating nations

821 competitors from 95 nations participated.

•   Albania (3)
•   Algeria (2)
•   American Samoa (5)
•   Argentina (2)
•   Armenia (15)
•   Australia (3)
•   Austria (12)
•   Azerbaijan (23)
•   Belarus (23)
•   Bolivia (1)
•   Brazil (17)
•   Bulgaria (22)
•   Cameroon (2)
•   Canada (18)
•   Chile (4)
•   China (24)
•   Chinese Taipei (2)
•   Colombia (10)
•   Costa Rica (1)
•   Croatia (6)
•   Cuba (11)
•   Czech Republic (10)
•   Denmark (2)
•   Ecuador (3)
•   Egypt (9)
•   El Salvador (1)
•   Estonia (6)
•   Finland (8)
•   France (7)
•   Georgia (16)
•   Germany (20)
•   Great Britain (1)
•   Greece (11)
•   Guam (1)
•   Guatemala (1)
•   Guinea-Bissau (1)
•   Haiti (1)
•   Honduras (3)
•   Hungary (21)
•   India (23)
•   Iran (16)
•   Iraq (1)
•   Ireland (1)
•   Israel (7)
•   Italy (12)
•   Japan (24)
•   Kazakhstan (24)
•   Kosovo (2)
•   Kyrgyzstan (16)
•   Latvia (4)
•   Lithuania (7)
• Macedonia (5)
•   Marshall Islands (3)
•   Mexico (13)
•   Moldova (16)
•   Monaco (2)
•   Mongolia (16)
•   Morocco (5)
•   Namibia (3)
•   Nauru (1)
•   Netherlands (1)
•   New Zealand (1)
•   Nigeria (1)
•   North Korea (7)
•   Norway (6)
•   Pakistan (1)
•   Palau (3)
•   Palestine (1)
•   Panama (1)
•   Peru (4)
•   Poland (16)
•   Portugal (3)
•   Puerto Rico (10)
•   Romania (12)
•   Russia (23)
•   Senegal (2)
•   Serbia (7)
•   Slovakia (8)
•   Slovenia (2)
•   South Africa (5)
•   South Korea (22)
•   Spain (9)
•   Sri Lanka (4)
•   Sweden (9)
•   Switzerland (7)
•   Tajikistan (9)
•   Trinidad and Tobago (1)
•   Tunisia (1)
•   Turkey (24)
•   Turkmenistan (6)
•   Ukraine (24)
•   United States (24)
•   Uzbekistan (15)
•   Venezuela (18)
•   Vietnam (5)

References

1. "Men's freestyle World medalists". unitedworldwrestling.org. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
2. "Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling . p. 14. Retrieved 15 October 2025.
3. "Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling . p. 86. Retrieved 22 September 2025.

External links

• Official website
• Wrestling Database
• Event Schedule
• Results Book
• Updated Results Book
• Updated Results Book, Version 2