2023 World Wrestling Championships

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
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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]}

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.

References

1. "Belgrade to host 2023 World Championships". United World Wrestling.
2. "UWW awards 2023 World Wrestling Championships to Belgrade after Russia stripped". www.insidethegames.biz. 14 November 2022.
3. "Wrestling World Championships to be held in Belgrade for second year running". SportBusiness. 15 November 2022.
4. "Wrestling World Championship 2023: Belgrade To Host the Edition For The Second Time In a Row". Sportslumo.
5. "World Championships - Schedule". United World Wrestling . Retrieved 18 May 2023.
6. "Questions unanswered over Russian participation at World Wrestling Championships". Inside the Games. 15 September 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
7. "UWW allowed the Russians Uguev, Sidakov, and Sadulaev to World Championships". Base of Ukrainian sports (on Twitter). Retrieved 20 September 2023.
8. "Міжнародна федерація боротьби допустила росіян з мітингу "Zа мир без нацизма". І активно їх рекламує". Tribuna.com. Retrieved 20 September 2023.
9. "Wrestling body explains why it let Russian champions compete at world champs despite pro-war rally". Associated Press. 19 September 2023. Retrieved 20 September 2023.

External links

• UWW Database