2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships

2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Tirana, Albania
Dates	23–29 October
Stadium	Tirana Olympic Park
Champions
Freestyle	United States
Greco-Roman	Turkey
Women	Japan
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The 2023 U23 World Wrestling Championships was the sixth edition of the U23 World Wrestling Championships of combined events and was held from 23 to 29 October 2023 in Tirana, Albania. ^[1] 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. ^[2] 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. ^[3] After Albania was specified as the host, the Albanian government announced that the Iranian wrestling team will not receive visas due to the IRGC's cyber attacks ^[4] on the Albanian government and Iran-Albania relations. ^[5]

Iranian visa problems

After Albania was specified as the host, the Albanian government announced that the Iranian wrestling team will not receive visas due to the IRGC's cyber attacks ^[6] on the Albanian government and Iran-Albania relations. ^[7]

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Albania)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
–	Individual Neutral Athletes [a]	11	4	8	23
1	Japan	5	3	4	12
2	United States	5	2	2	9
3	Turkey	3	4	5	12
4	Moldova	2	3	1	6
5	Ukraine	1	3	5	9
6	United World Wrestling [b]	1	2	6	9
7	Kazakhstan	1	2	2	5
8	Georgia	1	1	3	5
9	Azerbaijan	0	4	7	11
10	Armenia	0	1	2	3
11	Croatia	0	1	1	2
12	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	3	3
13	Germany	0	0	2	2
14	Egypt	0	0	1	1
	France	0	0	1	1
	Greece	0	0	1	1
	Hungary	0	0	1	1
	Lithuania	0	0	1	1
	Mongolia	0	0	1	1
	Poland	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
	Sweden	0	0	1	1
Totals (22 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	United States	148	Turkey	121	Japan	159
2	Turkey	113	Azerbaijan	93	Ukraine	146
3	Azerbaijan	87	Georgia	78	United World Wrestling	134
4	United World Wrestling	86	Armenia	77	United States	95
5	Japan	71	Kazakhstan	63	Turkey	80
6	Moldova	66	Ukraine	62	Canada	58
7	Georgia	64	Japan	47	Kazakhstan	56
8	Kazakhstan	60	Moldova	44	Moldova	51
9	Armenia	51	United World Wrestling	43	Azerbaijan	35
10	Kyrgyzstan	36	Kyrgyzstan	41	Romania	31

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg details	Nachyn Mongush   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Manvel Khndzrtsyan   Armenia	Bekzat Almaz Uulu   Kyrgyzstan
			Batkhuyagiin Mönkh-Erdene   Mongolia
61 kg details	Bashir Magomedov   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Assylzhan Yessengeldi   Kazakhstan	Mezhlum Mezhlumyan   Armenia
			Taiyrbek Zhumashbek Uulu   Kyrgyzstan
65 kg details	Ibragim Ibragimov   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Ziraddin Bayramov   Azerbaijan	Brock Hardy   United States
			Abdullah Toprak   Turkey
70 kg details	Inalbek Sheriev   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Yoshinosuke Aoyagi   Japan	Giorgi Elbakidze   Georgia
			Kanan Heybatov   Azerbaijan
74 kg details	Keegan O'Toole   United States	Imam Ganishov   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Hikaru Takata   Japan
			Naveen Malik United World Wrestling
79 kg details	Magomed Magomaev   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Ashraf Ashirov   Azerbaijan	Vladimeri Gamkrelidze   Georgia
			Sagar Jaglan United World Wrestling
86 kg details	Aaron Brooks   United States	Tatsuya Shirai   Japan	Arslan Bagaev   Authorised Neutral Athletes
			Joshua Morodion   Germany
92 kg details	Muhammed Gimri   Turkey	Ion Demian   Moldova	Jacob Cardenas   United States
			Abduljalil Shabanov   Azerbaijan
97 kg details	Isaac Trumble   United States	Radu Lefter   Moldova	Sergey Kozyrev   Authorised Neutral Athletes
			Oktay Çiftçi   Turkey
125 kg details	Wyatt Hendrickson   United States	Adil Mısırcı   Turkey	Azamat Khosonov   Greece
			Vakhit Galayev   Azerbaijan

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Giorgi Tokhadze   Georgia	Iskhar Kurbayev   Kazakhstan	Farid Sadikhli   Azerbaijan
			Adem Uzun   Turkey
60 kg details	Anvar Allakhiarov   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Romeo Beridze   Georgia	Mert İlbars   Turkey
			Sumit Dalal United World Wrestling
63 kg details	Rakhman Tavmurzaev   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Hleb Makaranka   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Vitalie Eriomenco   Moldova
			Chiezo Maruyama   Japan
67 kg details	Sultan Assetuly   Kazakhstan	Mustafa Yıldırım   Turkey	Haruto Yabe   Japan
			Muslim Imadaev   Authorised Neutral Athletes
72 kg details	Dmitrii Adamov   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Irfan Mirzoiev   Ukraine	Shant Khachatryan   Armenia
			Ruslan Nurullayev   Azerbaijan
77 kg details	Alexandrin Guţu   Moldova	Khasay Hasanli   Azerbaijan	Khvicha Ananidze   Georgia
			Yryskeldi Maksatbek Uulu   Kyrgyzstan
82 kg details	Aues Gonibov   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Alperen Berber   Turkey	Emad Abouelatta   Egypt
			Karlo Kodrič   Croatia
87 kg details	Magomed Murtazaliev   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Matej Mandić   Croatia	Szymon Szymonowicz   Poland
			István Takács   Hungary
97 kg details	Pavel Hlinchuk   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Mustafa Olgun   Turkey	Yuri Nakazato   Japan
			Lucas Lazogianis   Germany
130 kg details	Hamza Bakır   Turkey	Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi   Ukraine	Mikhail Laptev   Authorised Neutral Athletes
			Sarkhan Mammadov   Azerbaijan

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg details	Umi Ito   Japan	Audrey Jimenez   United States	Emma Luttenauer   France
			Elnura Mammadova   Azerbaijan
53 kg details	Mako Oono   Japan	Mariana Drăguțan   Moldova	Altyn Shagayeva   Kazakhstan
			Liliia Malanchuk   Ukraine
55 kg details	Umi Imai   Japan	Neha Sharma United World Wrestling	Aryna Martynava   Authorised Neutral Athletes
			Andreea Ana   Romania
57 kg details	Sara Natami   Japan	Zhala Aliyeva   Azerbaijan	Elvira Kamaloğlu   Turkey
			Reena Sangwan United World Wrestling
59 kg details	Solomiia Vynnyk   Ukraine	Sena Nagamoto   Japan	Nitika Sansanwal United World Wrestling
			Anastasiia Sidelnikova   Authorised Neutral Athletes
62 kg details	Yuzuka Inagaki   Japan	Iryna Bondar   Ukraine	Irina Kuznetsova   Kazakhstan
			Alina Kasabieva   Authorised Neutral Athletes
65 kg details	Irina Rîngaci   Moldova	Amina Tandelova   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Yulia Leskovets   Ukraine
			Monika United World Wrestling
68 kg details	Nesrin Baş   Turkey	Alina Shauchuk   Authorised Neutral Athletes	Manola Skobelska   Ukraine
			Tindra Sjöberg   Sweden
72 kg details	Amit Elor   United States	Jyoti Berwal United World Wrestling	Iryna Zablotska   Ukraine
			Viktoryia Radzkova   Authorised Neutral Athletes
76 kg details	Reetika Hooda United World Wrestling	Kennedy Blades   United States	Kamilė Gaučaitė   Lithuania
			Anastasiya Alpyeyeva   Ukraine

Participating nations

564 wrestlers from 54 countries:

1. Individual Neutral Athletes (57)
2.   Albania (13) (Host)
3.   Armenia (20)
4.   Australia (1)
5.   Austria (2)
6.   Azerbaijan (25)
7.   Belgium (4)
8.   Bulgaria (7)
9.   Canada (19)
10.   Chile (1)
11.   Croatia (6)
12.   Cyprus (1)
13.   Czech Republic (2)
14.   Egypt (6)
15.   Spain (4)
16.   Estonia (4)
17.   Finland (6)
18.   France (10)
19.   United Kingdom (1)
20.   Guinea-Bissau (1)
21.   Georgia (20)
22.   Germany (10)
23.   Greece (10)
24.   Hungary (10)
25.   Italy (6)
26.   Jordan (2)
27.   Japan (29)
28.   Kazakhstan (30)
29.   Kyrgyzstan (18)
30.   Kosovo (1)
31.   Saudi Arabia (6)
32.   Latvia (3)
33.   Lithuania (5)
34.   Morocco (1)
35.   Moldova (22)
36.   Mexico (4)
37.   Mongolia (1)
38.   North Macedonia (3)
39.   Nigeria (1)
40.   Norway (2)
41.   Philippines (1)
42.   Poland (19)
43.   Puerto Rico (9)
44.   Romania (9)
45.   South Africa (2)
46.   Serbia (4)
47.   Switzerland (4)
48.   Slovakia (2)
49.   Sweden (7)
50.   Tajikistan (1)
51.   Tunisia (6)
52.   Turkey (30)
53.   Ukraine (30)
54.   United States (30)
55.   Venezuela (6)
56. United World Wrestling (30)

References

1. https://cms.uww.org/article/u23-world-championships-entries-released
2. "Questions unanswered over Russian participation at World Wrestling Championships". Inside the Games . Retrieved 20 September 2023.
3. "Wrestling body explains why it let Russian champions compete at world champs despite pro-war rally". Associated Press . Retrieved 20 September 2023.
4. بیانیه اتحادیه جهانی کشتی درباره ویزا ندادن آلبانی به تیم ایران؛ گزارش علی عمادی (in Persian), 2023-10-24, retrieved 2023-10-26
5. "واکنش اتحادیه جهانی کشتی به ندادن ویزا به ایران از سوی آلبانی". ایسنا (in Persian). 2023-10-24. Retrieved 2023-10-26.
6. بیانیه اتحادیه جهانی کشتی درباره ویزا ندادن آلبانی به تیم ایران؛ گزارش علی عمادی (in Persian), 2023-10-24, retrieved 2023-10-26
7. "واکنش اتحادیه جهانی کشتی به ندادن ویزا به ایران از سوی آلبانی". ایسنا (in Persian). 2023-10-24. Retrieved 2023-10-26.

Notes

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, they results were not counted in the team rankings.
2. 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).

External links

• Official website
• Results Book