The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Wrestling - Freestyle Bantamweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 18 Medals

JAPAN - 12 Medals

SOVIET UNION - 6 Medals

Freestyle Bantamweight Freestyle Flyweight Freestyle Featherweight
Freestyle Lightweight Freestyle Welterweight Freestyle Middleweight
Freestyle Light Heavyweight
Freestyle Heavyweight Freestyle SuperHeavyweight
Freestyle Discontinued Greco-Roman Bantamweight Greco-Roman Featherweight
Greco-Roman Lightweight Greco-Roman Welterweight Greco-Roman Middleweight
Greco-Roman Heavyweight Greco-Roman SuperHeavyweight Greco-Roman Discontinued

Men's  Women's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games

YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
1904
Isidor Niflot - United States
August Wester - United States
Louis Strebler - United States
1908
George Mehnert - United States
William J. Press - Great Britain
Aubert Cote - Canada
1924
Kustaa Pihlajamaki - Finland
Kaarlo Makinen - Finland
Bryan Hines - United States
1928
Kaarlo Makinen - Finland
Edmond Spapen - Belgium
James Trifunov - Canada
1932
Robert Pearce - United States
Odon Zombori - Hungary
Aatos Jaskari - Finland
1936
Odon Zombori - Hungary
Ross Flood - United States
Johannes Herbert - Germany
1948
Nasuh Akar - Turkey
Gerald Leeman - United States
Charles Kouyos - France
1952
Shohachi Ishii - Japan
Rashid Mamedbekov - Soviet Union
Khashaba Dadasaheb Jadhav - India
1956
Mustafa Dagistanli - Turkey
Mehdi Yaghoubi - Iran
Mikhail Shakov - Soviet Union
1960
Terrence McCann - United States
Nezhdet Zalev - Bulgaria
Tadeusz Trojanowski - Poland
1964
Yojiro Uetake - Japan
Huseyin Akbas - Turkey
Aydin Ibragimov - Soviet Union
1968
Yojiro Uetake - Japan
Donald Behm - United States
Aboutaleb Talebi - Iran
1972
Hideaki Yanagida - Japan
Richard Sanders - United States
Laszlo Klinga - Hungary
1976
Vladimir Yumin - Soviet Union
Hans-Dieter Bruchert - East Germany
Masao Arai - Japan
1980
Sergei Beloglazov - Soviet Union
Li Ho-Pyong - North Korea
Dugarsurengiin Oyuunbold - Mongolia
1984
Hideaki Tomiyama - Japan
Barry Davis - United States
Kim Eui-Kon - South Korea
1988
Sergei Beloglazov - Soviet Union
Askari Mohammadian - Iran
Noh Kyung-Sun - South Korea
1992
Alejandro Puerto - Cuba
Sergei Smal - Unified Team
Kim Yong-Sik - North Korea
1996
Kendall Cross - United States
Guivi Sissaouri - Canada
Ri Yong-Sam - North Korea
2000
Alireza Dabir - Iran
Yevgen Buslovych - Ukraine
Terry Brands - United States
2004
Mavlet Batirov - Russia
Stephen Abas - United States
Chikara Tanabe - Japan
2008
Henry Cejudo - United States
Tomohiro Matsunaga - Japan
Besik Kudukhov - Russia
Radoslav Velikov - Bulgaria
2012
Dzhamal Otarsultanov - Russia
Vladimer Khinchegashvili - Georgia
Yang Kyong-Il - North Korea
Shinichi Yumoto - Japan
2016
Vladimer Khinchegashvili - Gerogia
Rei Higuchi - Japan
Haji Aliyev - Azerbaijan
Hassan Rahimi - Iran
2020
Zaur Uguev - Russian Olympic Committee Ravi Kumar Dahiya - India Nurislam Sanayev - Kazakhstan
Thomas Gilman - United States

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
2016
Helen Maroulis - United States
Saori Yoshida - Japan
Nataliya Synyshyn - Azerbaijan
Sofia Mattsson - Sweden
2020
Mayu Mukaida - Japan Pang Qianyu - China Vanesa Kaladzinskaya - Belarus
Bat-Ochiryn Bolortuyaa - Mongolia

Medal Total
RANK
COUNTRY
GOLD
SILVER
BRONZE
TOTAL
1
United States
7
7
4
18
2
Japan
6
3
3
12
3
Soviet Union
3
1
2
6
4
Iran
1
2
2
5
5
Finland
2
1
1
4
6
North Korea
0
1
3
4
7
Turkey
2
1
0
3
8
Russia
2
1
0
3
9
Hungary
1
1
1
3
10
Canada
0
1
2
3
11
Georgia
1
1
0
2
12
Bulgaria
0
1
1
2
13
India 0
1
1
2
14
South Korea
0
0
2
2
15
Azerbaijan
0
0
2
2
16
Mongolia 0
0
2
2
17
Cuba
1
0
0
1
18
Russian Olympic Committee
1
0
0
1
19
Great Britain
0
1
0
1
20
Belgium
0
1
0
1
21
Ukraine
0
1
0
1
22
China
0
1
0
1
23
East Germany
0
1
0
1
24
Unified Team
0
1
0
1
25
Germany
0
0
1
1
26
France
0
0
1
1
27
Poland
0
0
1
1
28
Sweden
0
0
1
1
29
Kazkahstan
0
0
1
1
30
Belarus
0
0
1
1