List of World Sumo Championships medalists (men)

Last updated October 31, 2025

This is a list of world championships medalists in amateur sumo .

Men Individual

Lightweight

Meet	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Tokyo^[1]	Akihiro Kiku	Tadashi Nagamine	Mohammad Nabil
1992 Tokyo^[1]	Akihiro Kiku	Tadashi Nagamine	Odvog Baljinnyam
1993 Tokyo^[2]	Hitoshi Omura	Juan Manuel Matsubara	Kaneyoshi Ueno
1993 Tokyo^[2]	Hitoshi Omura	Juan Manuel Matsubara	Ousmane Ndiaye
1994 Tokyo^[3]	Bayanmunkh Gantogtoh	Martin Lidberg	Nobuo Tsuchiya
1994 Tokyo^[3]	Bayanmunkh Gantogtoh	Martin Lidberg	Shin Ogawa
1995 Tokyo^[4]	Agvaansamdan Suhbat	Moussa Sall	Alexandre Takeo Sato
1995 Tokyo^[4]	Agvaansamdan Suhbat	Moussa Sall	Henrik Buchholtz
1996 Tokyo^[5]	Hitoshi Omura	Valeri Bakatov	Agvaansamdan Suhbat
1996 Tokyo^[5]	Hitoshi Omura	Valeri Bakatov	Moussa Sall
1997 Tokyo^[6]	Agvaansamdan Suhbat	Márcio Tadashi Takakura	Martin Dalsbotten
1997 Tokyo^[6]	Agvaansamdan Suhbat	Márcio Tadashi Takakura	Morgan Endicott-Davies
1998 Tokyo^[7]	Svetoslav Binev	Atsuhiro Ibata	Peer Schmidt-Düwiger
1998 Tokyo^[7]	Svetoslav Binev	Atsuhiro Ibata	Antenor Yuzo Sato
1999 Riesa^[8]	Svetoslav Binev	Kandemir Kuular	Kevin Emslie
1999 Riesa^[8]	Svetoslav Binev	Kandemir Kuular	Hitoshi Omura
2000 São Paulo^[9]	Peer Schmidt-Düwiger	Tomi Rajamäki	János Kismóni
2000 São Paulo^[9]	Peer Schmidt-Düwiger	Tomi Rajamäki	Kandemir Kovoular
2001 Aomori^[10]	Chohei Kimura	Tomi Rajamäki	Anti Peet
2001 Aomori^[10]	Chohei Kimura	Tomi Rajamäki	János Kismóni
2002 Wrocław^[11]	Claudio Ikemori	János Kismóni	Igor Kurinnoy
2002 Wrocław^[11]	Claudio Ikemori	János Kismóni	Stilian Georgiev
2004 Riesa^[11]	Vitaliy Tikhenko	Claudio Ikemori	Artur Michalkiewicz
2004 Riesa^[11]	Vitaliy Tikhenko	Claudio Ikemori	Igor Kurinnoy
2005 Osaka^[11]	Vitaliy Tikhenko	Jakkarapong Choarungmetee	Stilian Georgiev
2005 Osaka^[11]	Vitaliy Tikhenko	Jakkarapong Choarungmetee	Sami Ylä-Kero
2006 Osaka^[11]	Takaharu Nagasawa	Niyaz Gunyashev	Igor Kurinnoy
2006 Osaka^[11]	Takaharu Nagasawa	Niyaz Gunyashev	Vitaliy Tikhenko
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Sándor Bárdosi	Stilian Georgiev	Vitalii Oliinyk
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Sándor Bárdosi	Stilian Georgiev	Nachyn Mongush
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Takashi Shimako	Stilian Georgiev	Trent Sabo
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Takashi Shimako	Stilian Georgiev	Nachyn Mongush
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Stilian Georgiev	Rashad Kazimov	Takashi Shimako
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Stilian Georgiev	Rashad Kazimov	Olle Overbosch
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Gantugs Rentsendorj	Stilian Georgiev	Namig Sadigov
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Gantugs Rentsendorj	Stilian Georgiev	Aron Rozum
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Yūya Nakamura	Aron Rozum	Andrei Mongush
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Yūya Nakamura	Aron Rozum	Pencho Dochev
2015 Osaka^[11]	Yūya Nakamura	Stilian Georgiev	Batyr Altyev
2015 Osaka^[11]	Yūya Nakamura	Stilian Georgiev	Aron Rozum
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Batyr Altyev	Fathy Mohamed Mail Abou El Rokb	Isao Shibaoka
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Batyr Altyev	Fathy Mohamed Mail Abou El Rokb	Badral Baasandorj
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Sviatoslav Semykras	Subudai Shoidun	Abdelrahman Elsefy
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Sviatoslav Semykras	Subudai Shoidun	Pencho Dochev
2019 Osaka^[12]	Georgy Abdula-Zade	Doping^[a]^[13]^[14]	Pencho Dochev
2019 Osaka^[12]	Georgy Abdula-Zade	Doping^[a]^[13]^[14]	Abdelrahman Elsefy
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Sviatoslav Semykras	Royal Aghamaliyev	Tomohisa Oku
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Sviatoslav Semykras	Royal Aghamaliyev	Pencho Dochev
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Demid Karachenko	Patryk Swora	Abdullah Sharif
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Demid Karachenko	Patryk Swora	Pencho Dochev
2025 Bangkok
2025 Bangkok

Middleweight

Meet	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1993 Tokyo	Akihiro Kiku	Fabio Shigenobu Kosaihara	Odvog Baljinnyam
1993 Tokyo	Akihiro Kiku	Fabio Shigenobu Kosaihara	Milton Reedy
1994 Tokyo	Ryōji Kumagai	Eduard Grams	Moussa Sall
1994 Tokyo	Ryōji Kumagai	Eduard Grams	Jorge Charello
1995 Tokyo	Ryoji Kumagai	Evgueni Sleptsov	Ahmet Taşçı
1995 Tokyo	Ryoji Kumagai	Evgueni Sleptsov	Arnulfo Hernandez
1996 Tokyo	Tatsurō Takahama	Odvog Baljinnyam	Steve Pateman
1996 Tokyo	Tatsurō Takahama	Odvog Baljinnyam	Fabio Kazuo Ikemori
1997 Tokyo	Tatsurō Takahama	Roberval Yuji Hayashi	Aap Uspenski
1997 Tokyo	Tatsurō Takahama	Roberval Yuji Hayashi	Nacanieli Qerewaqa
1998 Tokyo	Tatsurō Takahama	Eduard Grams	Petri Särkijärvi
1998 Tokyo	Tatsurō Takahama	Eduard Grams	Bayanmunkh Gantogtoh
1999 Riesa	Hideto Tsushima	Aap Uspenski	Marek Paczków
1999 Riesa	Hideto Tsushima	Aap Uspenski	Borislav Beltchev
2000 São Paulo	Aias Mongouch	Altangadas Khuchitbaatar	Hideto Tsushima
2000 São Paulo	Aias Mongouch	Altangadas Khuchitbaatar	Aap Uspenski
2001 Aomori	Aias Mongouch	Aap Uspenski	Agvaansamdan Suhbat
2001 Aomori	Aias Mongouch	Aap Uspenski	Luis Felipe Rodriguez Valera
2002 Wrocław^[11]	David Tsallagov	Marek Paczków	Ryo Ikeura
2002 Wrocław^[11]	David Tsallagov	Marek Paczków	Todor Djurov
2004 Riesa^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Sergiy Pryadun	David Tsallagov
2004 Riesa^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Sergiy Pryadun	Marek Paczków
2005 Osaka^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Marek Paczków	Agvaansamdan Suhbat
2005 Osaka^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Marek Paczków	Saber Hussein
2006 Osaka^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Gantugs Rentsendorj	Kostyantyn Yermakov
2006 Osaka^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Gantugs Rentsendorj	Alan de Souza Galvão
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Todor Dzurov	Alan Bibilov
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Todor Dzurov	Kostyantyn Yermakov
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Kostyantyn Yermakov	Atsamaz Kaziev
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Katsuo Yoshida	Kostyantyn Yermakov	Victor Zaragueta de Jesus Pastrello
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Ryō Itō	Atsamaz Kaziev	Wojciech Poczta
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Ryō Itō	Atsamaz Kaziev	Bat-Orshikh Ulziitogtokh
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Kostyantyn Yermakov	Atsamaz Kaziev	Ricardo Tadashi Aoyama
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Kostyantyn Yermakov	Atsamaz Kaziev	Ryō Itō
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Kiyoyuki Noguchi	Usukhbayar Ochirkhuu	Eres Kara-Sal
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Kiyoyuki Noguchi	Usukhbayar Ochirkhuu	Kostyantyn Yermakov
2015 Osaka^[11]	Atsamaz Kaziev	Michał Luto	Giorgi Meshvildishvili
2015 Osaka^[11]	Atsamaz Kaziev	Michał Luto	Kiyoyuki Noguchi
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Hayato Miwa	Michał Luto	Giorgi Meshvildishvili
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Hayato Miwa	Michał Luto	Atsamaz Kaziev
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Badral Baasandorj	Aron Rozum	Oskari Riihioja
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Badral Baasandorj	Aron Rozum	Saiyn-Belek Tiuliush
2019 Osaka^[12]	Badral Baasandorj	Ryota Fukano	Oskari Riihioja
2019 Osaka^[12]	Badral Baasandorj	Ryota Fukano	Michał Luto
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Yehor Krupskyi	Kazuhiko Ryuyama	Sulde Dongak
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Yehor Krupskyi	Kazuhiko Ryuyama	Hannu Kulmala
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Yehor Krupskyi	Kim Erik Valentin Svensson	Chingiz Samadov
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Yehor Krupskyi	Kim Erik Valentin Svensson	Ivan Blagoev
2025 Bangkok
2025 Bangkok

Light Heavyweight

Meet	Gold	Silver	Bronze
2019 Osaka^[12]	Konstantin Abdula-Zade	Koju Osanai	Vazha Daiauri
2019 Osaka^[12]	Konstantin Abdula-Zade	Koju Osanai	Aibek Kasmanbetov
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Vazha Daiauri	Hayato Miwa	Badral Baasandorj
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Vazha Daiauri	Hayato Miwa	Aron Rozum
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Badral Baasandorj	Vazha Daiauri	Hayato Miwa
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Badral Baasandorj	Vazha Daiauri	Sulde Dongak
2025 Bangkok
2025 Bangkok

Heavyweight

Meet	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Tokyo	Takeharu Dejima	Hideo Su'a	Martin Vogt
1992 Tokyo	Takeharu Dejima	Hideo Su'a	Tsedendamba Bayarsaihan
1993 Tokyo	Fumihito Tsuruga	Tsedendamba Bayarsaihan	Andrew Borodow
1993 Tokyo	Fumihito Tsuruga	Tsedendamba Bayarsaihan	Khabil Biktachev
1994 Tokyo	Keiji Tamiya	Paul Kingi	Bill Etherington
1994 Tokyo	Keiji Tamiya	Paul Kingi	Rene Da Silva Crespo
1995 Tokyo	Naohito Saitō	Jörg Brümmer	Fabio Shigenobu Kozahira
1995 Tokyo	Naohito Saitō	Jörg Brümmer	Andrew Borodow
1996 Tokyo	Koichi Katō	Andrew Borodow	Emeka Baba Mutum Okeke
1996 Tokyo	Koichi Katō	Andrew Borodow	Yeh Kum-fang
1997 Tokyo	Keiji Tamiya	Yeh Kum-fang	Samat Romazanov
1997 Tokyo	Keiji Tamiya	Yeh Kum-fang	Wayne Vierra
1998 Tokyo	Jörg Brümmer	Nacanieli Qerewaqa	Marcos Santana
1998 Tokyo	Jörg Brümmer	Nacanieli Qerewaqa	Seiken Katō
1999 Riesa	Takahisa Osanai	Tsedendamba Bayarsaikhan	Jörg Brümmer
1999 Riesa	Takahisa Osanai	Tsedendamba Bayarsaikhan	Robert Paczków
2000 São Paulo	Takahisa Osanai	Jörg Brümmer	Hans Borg
2000 São Paulo	Takahisa Osanai	Jörg Brümmer	Marcos Santana
2001 Aomori	Robert Paczków	Iouri Mildzikhov	Petar Stoyanov
2001 Aomori	Robert Paczków	Iouri Mildzikhov	Julio Cesar Diez Ochoa
2002 Wrocław^[11]	Robert Paczków	Iouri Mildzikhov	Hans Borg
2002 Wrocław^[11]	Robert Paczków	Iouri Mildzikhov	Tsedev Myagmarsuren
2004 Riesa^[11]	Takayuki Ichihara	Robert Paczków	Petar Stoyanov
2004 Riesa^[11]	Takayuki Ichihara	Robert Paczków	Konstantyn Stryzhak
2005 Osaka^[11]	Takayuki Ichihara	Dezső Libor	Hrist Hristov
2005 Osaka^[11]	Takayuki Ichihara	Dezső Libor	Alan Karaev
2006 Osaka^[11]	Byambajav Ulambayar	Alan Karaev	Tomoki Mori
2006 Osaka^[11]	Byambajav Ulambayar	Alan Karaev	Robert Paczków
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Byambajav Ulambayar	Hiroaki Tanaka	Petar Stoyanov
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Byambajav Ulambayar	Hiroaki Tanaka	Artur Bagaev
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Takashi Himeno	Petar Stoyanov	Byambajav Ulambayar
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Takashi Himeno	Petar Stoyanov	Doping
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Dezső Libor	Alan Karaev	Byambajav Ulambayar
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Dezső Libor	Alan Karaev	Hidemasa Meigetsuin
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Alan Karaev	Dmytro Slepchenko	Endō Shōta
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Alan Karaev	Dmytro Slepchenko	Byambajav Ulambayar
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Alan Karaev	Yevhenii Orlov	Byambajav Ulambayar
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Alan Karaev	Yevhenii Orlov	Ivan Kachakov
2015 Osaka^[11]	Ryōta Oyanagi	Byambajav Ulambayar	Rui Aparecido de Sá Junior
2015 Osaka^[11]	Ryōta Oyanagi	Byambajav Ulambayar	Avtandil Tsertsvadze
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Vasily Margiev	Kojiro Kurokawa	Serhii Sokolovskyi
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Vasily Margiev	Kojiro Kurokawa	Byambajav Ulambayar
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Vasily Margiev	Davaajamts Nanjidsuren	Mateusz Linka
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Vasily Margiev	Davaajamts Nanjidsuren	Seira Shiroyama
2019 Osaka^[12]	Atsushi Igarashi	Rui Aparecido de Sá Junior	Ruslan Bagaev
2019 Osaka^[12]	Atsushi Igarashi	Rui Aparecido de Sá Junior	Oleksandr Veresiuk
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Naoya Kusano	Naranbayar Khangai	Lasha Jeladze
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Naoya Kusano	Naranbayar Khangai	Jacek Piersiak
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Lasha Jeladze	Mateusz Linka	Kosei Takeuchi
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Lasha Jeladze	Mateusz Linka	Naranbayar Khangai
2025 Bangkok
2025 Bangkok

Openweight

Meet	Gold	Silver	Bronze
1992 Tokyo	Kazuo Saitō	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Rene Da Silva Crespo
1992 Tokyo	Kazuo Saitō	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Jochen Plate
1993 Tokyo	Sunao Yasu	Badmanyambuu Bat-Erdene	Emmanuel Yarbrough
1993 Tokyo	Sunao Yasu	Badmanyambuu Bat-Erdene	Rene Da Silva Crespo
1994 Tokyo	Badmanyambuu Bat-Erdene	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Fabrice Guenet
1994 Tokyo	Badmanyambuu Bat-Erdene	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Khabil Biktachev
1995 Tokyo	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Taishi Goto	Badmanyambuu Bat-Erdene
1995 Tokyo	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Taishi Goto	Fabrice Guenet
1996 Tokyo	Mark Robinson	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Tevita Vaiola Falevai
1996 Tokyo	Mark Robinson	Emmanuel Yarbrough	Fabrice Guenet
1997 Tokyo	Naohito Saitō	Ahmed Bally	Mark Robinson
1997 Tokyo	Naohito Saitō	Ahmed Bally	Flavio Tooru Kosaihara
1998 Tokyo	Keiji Tamiya	Mark Robinson	Thorsten Scheibler
1998 Tokyo	Keiji Tamiya	Mark Robinson	Jacek Jaracz
1999 Riesa	Levan Ebanoidze	Tōru Kakizoe	Dezső Libor
1999 Riesa	Levan Ebanoidze	Tōru Kakizoe	Iouri Goloubovski
2000 São Paulo	Tōru Kakizoe	Thorsten Scheibler	Levan Ebanoidze
2000 São Paulo	Tōru Kakizoe	Thorsten Scheibler	Jorma Korhonen
2001 Aomori	Thorsten Scheibler	Tsedendamba Bayarsaikhan	Iouri Goloubovski
2001 Aomori	Thorsten Scheibler	Tsedendamba Bayarsaikhan	Ronny Almann
2002 Wrocław^[11]	Alan Karaev	Batjargal Ganbat	Thorsten Scheibler
2002 Wrocław^[11]	Alan Karaev	Batjargal Ganbat	Levan Ebanoidze
2004 Riesa^[11]	Keisyo Shimoda	Thorsten Scheibler	Jacek Jaracz
2004 Riesa^[11]	Keisyo Shimoda	Thorsten Scheibler	Geraldo Katsushi Fujishiro
2005 Osaka^[11]	Thorsten Scheibler	Keisyo Shimoda	Batzorig Chogsom
2005 Osaka^[11]	Thorsten Scheibler	Keisyo Shimoda	Petar Stoyanov
2006 Osaka^[11]	Alan Gabaraev	Jaroslav Poříz	Myagmarsuren Tsedev
2006 Osaka^[11]	Alan Gabaraev	Jaroslav Poříz	Takayuki Ichihara
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Alan Karaev	Yasunari Miyamoto	Hany Hassanin
2007 Chiang Mai^[11]	Alan Karaev	Yasunari Miyamoto	Myagmarsuren Tsedev
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Naranbat Gankhuyag	Doping	Robert Paczków
2008 Rakvere^[11]	Naranbat Gankhuyag	Doping	Alan Karaev
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Vasily Margiev	Hristo Hristov	Ganbat Batjargal
2010 Warsaw^[11]	Vasily Margiev	Hristo Hristov	Masahiro Yamaguchi
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Naranbat Gankhuyag	Mutoshi Matsunaga	Haitham Alsadi
2012 Hong Kong^[11]	Naranbat Gankhuyag	Mutoshi Matsunaga	Oleksandr Veresiuk
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Turbold Baasansuren	Oleksandr Veresiuk	Daiki Nakamura
2014 Taoyuan^[11]	Turbold Baasansuren	Oleksandr Veresiuk	Hossam Fathi Omar Misbah
2015 Osaka^[11]	Sōichirō Kurokawa	Hossam Fathi Omar Misbah	Jacek Piersiak
2015 Osaka^[11]	Sōichirō Kurokawa	Hossam Fathi Omar Misbah	Turbold Baasansuren
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Turbold Baasansuren	Eduard Kudzoev	Roy Sims
2016 Ulaanbaatar^[12]	Turbold Baasansuren	Eduard Kudzoev	Sōichirō Kurokawa
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Eduard Kudzoev	Jacek Piersiak	Oleksandr Veresiuk
2018 Taoyuan^[12]	Eduard Kudzoev	Jacek Piersiak	Tomohiro Saigo
2019 Osaka^[12]	Batsuuri Namsraijav	Kojiro Kurokawa	Robert Kerstner
2019 Osaka^[12]	Batsuuri Namsraijav	Kojiro Kurokawa	Eduard Kudzoev
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Oleksandr Veresiuk	Batsuuri Namsraijav	Alonso Gonzalez Margalef
2023 Tokyo^[12]	Oleksandr Veresiuk	Batsuuri Namsraijav	Taisei Matsuzono
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Shun Ikeda	Jacek Piersiak	Badri Khatiskatsi
2024 Krotoszyn^[12]	Shun Ikeda	Jacek Piersiak	Oleksandr Veresiuk
2025 Bangkok
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Notes

↑ Gold medal in lightweight category was originally won by Sviatoslav Semykras of Ukraine, but in later years he was disqualified of his title because of doping violations.

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[note-doping-13] Gold medal in lightweight category was originally won by Sviatoslav Semykras of Ukraine, but in later years he was disqualified of his title because of doping violations.

[1] 1992 World Sumo Championships

[2] 1993 World Sumo Championships

[3] 1994 World Sumo Championships

[4] 1995 World Sumo Championships

[5] 1996 World Sumo Championships

[6] 1997 World Sumo Championships

[7] 1998 World Sumo Championships

[8] 1999 World Sumo Championships

[9] 2000 World Sumo Championships

[10] 2001 World Sumo Championships

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