2022 U20 World Wrestling Championships

2022 World Juniors Wrestling Championships
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Dates	15–21 August 2022
Stadium	Armeets Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Iran
Greco-Roman	Iran
Women	Japan
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The 2022 World Junior Wrestling Championships (U20) was the 45th edition of the World Junior Wrestling Championships and was held in Sofia, Bulgaria between 15 and 21 August 2022. ^{[1] [2]}

Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+3)

Date	Time	Event
15 August	11.00-14.30	Qualification rounds FS – 57-65-70-79-97 kg
	18:00-19.30	Semi Final FS – 57-65-70-79-97 kg
16 August	11.30-14.30	Qualification rounds FS – 61-74-86-92-125 kg; Repechage FS – 57-65-70-79-97 kg
	16.45-17.45	Semi Final FS – 61-74-86-92-125 kg
	18.00-20.30	FS – 57-65-70-79-97 kg
17 August	11.00-13.30	Qualification rounds WW – 50-55-59-68-76 kg; Repechage FS – 61-74-86-92-125 kg
	16.45-17.45	Semi Final WW – 50-55-59-68-76 kg
	18.00-20.30	Finals FS – 61-74-86-92-125 kg
18 August	11.00-13.30	Qualification rounds WW – 53-57-62-65-72 kg; Repechage WW – 50-55-59-68-76 kg
	17.00-17.45	Semi Final WW – 53-57-62-65-72 kg
	18.00-20.00	Finals WW – 50-55-59-68-76 kg
19 August	11.00-15.30	Qualification rounds GR – 55-63-77-87-130 kg; Repechage WW – 53-57-62-65-72 kg
	17.00-17.45	Semi-finals: GR – 55-63-77-87-130 kg
	18.00-20.00	Finals WW – 53-57-62-65-72 kg
20 August	11.00-15.30	Qualification rounds GR – 60-67-72-82-97 kg; Repechage GR – 55-63-77-87-130 kg
	17.00-17.45	Semi Final GR – 60-67-72-82-97 kg
	18.00-21.00	Finals GR – 55-63-77-87-130 kg
21 August	16.00-17.45	Repechage GR – 60-67-72-82-97 kg
	18.00-20.30	Finals GR – 60-67-72-82-97 kg
	21.00	Final banquet

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Bulgaria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	9	1	5	15
2	Iran	7	3	6	16
3	Azerbaijan	5	1	3	9
4	United States	3	4	4	11
5	India	1	4	11	16
6	Armenia	1	2	1	4
7	Ukraine	1	1	4	6
8	Uzbekistan	1	0	3	4
9	France	1	0	2	3
10	Germany	1	0	1	2
11	Kazakhstan	0	4	3	7
12	Georgia	0	3	2	5
13	Turkey	0	2	6	8
14	Kyrgyzstan	0	2	4	6
15	Hungary	0	1	2	3
16	Moldova	0	1	1	2
17	Romania	0	1	0	1
18	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		30	30	60	120

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	159	Iran	174	Japan	230
2	United States	132	Azerbaijan	119	India	160
3	India	112	Ukraine	93	United States	124
4	Azerbaijan	100	Armenia	83	Turkey	89
5	Georgia	98	Turkey	81	Ukraine	84
6	Turkey	78	Kazakhstan	78	Kazakhstan	71
7	Japan	60	Georgia	58	Hungary	56
8	France	57	Moldova	53	Kyrgyzstan	51
9	Ukraine	56	Kyrgyzstan	50	Poland	30
10	Uzbekistan	54	Uzbekistan	44	Uzbekistan	32

Medal overview

Men's freestyle

Further information: 2022 World Junior Wrestling Championships – Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg details	Jore Volk   United States	Merey Bazarbayev   Kazakhstan	Ahmad Javan   Iran
			Abhishek Dhaka   India
61 kg details	Yuto Nishiuchi   Japan	Armin Habibzadeh   Iran	Mohit Kumar   India
			Khamzat Arsamerzouev   France
65 kg details	Umidjon Jalolov   Uzbekistan	Ziraddin Bayramov   Azerbaijan	Yoshinosuke Aoyagi   Japan
			Sujeet Kalkal   India
70 kg details	Kanan Heybatov   Azerbaijan	Mitchell Mesenbrink   United States	Hossein Mohammad Aghaei   Iran
			Mulayam Yadav   India
74 kg details	Dzhabrail Gadzhiev   Azerbaijan	Ryunosuke Kamiya   Japan	Sagar Jaglan   India
			Jafar Chuliboyev   Uzbekistan
79 kg details	Sobhan Yari   Iran	Mushegh Mkrtchyan   Armenia	Otari Adeishvili   Georgia
			Mukhammad Abdullaev   Kyrgyzstan
86 kg details	Rakhim Magamadov   France	Bennett Berge   United States	Aref Ranjbari   Iran
			İsmail Küçüksolak   Turkey
92 kg details	Amir Hossein Firouzpour   Iran	Andro Margishvili   Georgia	Sergey Sargsyan   Armenia
			Adlan Viskhanov   France
97 kg details	Ben Kueter   United States	Rıfat Gıdak   Turkey	Neeraj Bhardwaj   India
			Amir Ali Azarpira   Iran
125 kg details	Amir Reza Masoumi   Iran	Mahendra Gaikwad   India	Merab Suleimanishvili   Georgia
			Adil Mısırcı   Turkey

Greco-Roman

Further information: 2022 World Junior Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Nihad Guluzade   Azerbaijan	Denis Mihai   Romania	Nuristan Suiorkulov   Kyrgyzstan
			Taiga Onishi   Japan
60 kg details	Saeid Esmaeili   Iran	Suren Aghajanyan   Armenia	Nihat Mammadli   Azerbaijan
			Sumit Dalal   India
63 kg details	Iman Mohammadi   Iran	Baiaman Karimov   Kyrgyzstan	Chiezo Maruyama   Japan
			Oleh Khalilov   Ukraine
67 kg details	Kanan Abdullazade   Azerbaijan	Nika Broladze   Georgia	Dinmukhamed Koshkar   Kazakhstan
			Danial Sohrabi   Iran
72 kg details	Gurban Gurbanov   Azerbaijan	Alexandru Solovei   Moldova	Irfan Mirzoiev   Ukraine
			Amir Abdi   Iran
77 kg details	Deni Nakaev   Germany	Yüksel Sarıçiçek   Turkey	Samandar Bobonazarov   Uzbekistan
			Alexandrin Guțu   Moldova
82 kg details	Alireza Mohmadi   Iran	Achiko Bolkvadze   Georgia	Rohit Dahiya   India
			Alperen Berber   Turkey
87 kg details	Vigen Nazaryan   Armenia	Abolfazl Choubani   Iran	Lachin Valiyev   Azerbaijan
			Maksat Sailau   Kazakhstan
97 kg details	Ali Abedi   Iran	Iussuf Matsiyev   Kazakhstan	Richard Karelson   Estonia
			Nurmanbet Raimaly Uulu   Kyrgyzstan
130 kg details	Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi   Ukraine	Fardin Hedayati   Iran	Temurbek Nasimov   Uzbekistan
			Aden Attao   United States

Women's freestyle

Further information: 2022 World Junior Wrestling Championships – Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg details	Umi Ito   Japan	Audrey Jimenez   United States	Priyanshi Prajapat   India
			Gultakin Shirinova   Azerbaijan
53 kg details	Antim Panghal   India	Altyn Shagayeva   Kazakhstan	Ayaka Kimura   Japan
			Katie Gomez   United States
55 kg details	Moe Kiyooka   Japan	Albina Rillia   Ukraine	Róza Szenttamási   Hungary
			Tuba Demir   Turkey
57 kg details	Ruka Natami   Japan	Sofia Macaluso   United States	Oleksandra Khomenets   Ukraine
			Sito   India
59 kg details	Sakura Motoki   Japan	Viktória Borsos   Hungary	Ebru Dağbaşı   Turkey
			Madina Aman   Kazakhstan
62 kg details	Nonoka Ozaki   Japan	Sonam Malik   India	Adaugo Nwachukwu   United States
			Iryna Bondar   Ukraine
65 kg details	Mahiro Yoshitake   Japan	Priyanka   India	Dilnaz Sazanova   Kyrgyzstan
			Khadija Jlassi   Tunisia
68 kg details	Ami Ishii   Japan	Nurzat Nurtaeva   Kyrgyzstan	Nesrin Baş   Turkey
			Sophia Schäfle   Germany
72 kg details	Amit Elor   United States	Anastassiya Panassovich   Kazakhstan	Sumire Niikura   Japan
			Reetika Hooda   India
76 kg details	Ayano Moro   Japan	Priya Malik   India	Veronika Nyikos   Hungary
			Tristan Kelly   United States

Participating nations

562 wrestlers from 49 countries:

1.   Algeria (5)
2.   Armenia (19)
3.   Austria (3)
4.   Azerbaijan (20)
5.   Belgium (3)
6.   Brazil (3)
7.   Bulgaria (24) (Host)
8.   Canada (11)
9.   Chile (3)
10.   Croatia (4)
11.   Czech Republic (7)
12.   Egypt (13)
13.   Spain (2)
14.   Estonia (5)
15.   Finland (5)
16.   France (8)
17.   United Kingdom (1)
18.   Georgia (20)
19.   Germany (11)
20.   Greece (13)
21.   Guatemala (2)
22.   Hungary (17)
23.   India (30)
24.   Iran (20)
25.   Israel (3)
26.   Italy (11)
27.   Japan (27)
28.   Kazakhstan (30)
29.   Kyrgyzstan (22)
30.   South Korea (7)
31.   Kosovo (2)
32.   Lithuania (7)
33.   Moldova (15)
34.   Mexico (6)
35.   Mongolia (4)
36.   Norway (6)
37.   Poland (18)
38.   Romania (15)
39.   South Africa (6)
40.   Serbia (4)
41.   Switzerland (5)
42.   Sweden (8)
43.   Tajikistan (2)
44.   Chinese Taipei (6)
45.   Tunisia (2)
46.   Turkey (30)
47.   Ukraine (28)
48.   United States (30)
49.   Uzbekistan (19)

References

1. "World Championships".
2. "#WrestleSofia U20 World Championships entry list".

External links

• Database
• Official results