The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Wrestling - Freestyle Lightweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 14 Medals
JAPAN - 12 Medals
SOVIET UNION - 6 Medals

Freestyle Lightweight Freestyle Flyweight Freestyle Bantamweight
Freestyle Flyweight 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  Women  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
1904
 Otto Roehm - United States
 Rudolph Tesing - United States
 Albert Zirkel - United States
1908
 George de Relwyskow - Great Britain
 William Wood - Great Britain
 Albert Gingell - Great Britain
1920
 Kalle Anttila - Finland
 Gottfrid Svensson - Sweden
 Peter Wright - Great Britain
1924
 Russell Vis - United States
 Volmar Wikstrom - Finland
 Arvo Haavisto - Finland
1928
 Osvald Kapp - Estonia
 Charles Pacome - France
 Eino Augusti Leino - Finland
1932
 Charles Pacome - France
 Karoly Karpati - Hungary
 Gustaf Klaren - Sweden
1936
 Karoly Karpati - Hungary
 Wolfgang Ehrl - Germany
 Hermanni Pihlajamaki - Finland
1948
 Celal Atik - Turkey
 Gosta Frandfors - Sweden
 Hermann Baumann - Switzerland
1952
 Olle Anderberg - Sweden
 Jay Thomas Evans - United States
 Jahanbakht Towfigh - Iran
1956
 Imam-Ali Habibi - Iran
 Shigeru Kasahara - Japan
 Alimberg Bestayev - Soviet Union
1960
 Shelby Wilson - United States
 Vladimir Synyavsky - Soviet Union
 Enyu Valchev - Bulgaria
1964
 Enyu Valchev - Bulgaria
 Klaus Rost - United Team of Germany Iwao Horiuchi - Japan
1968
 Abdollah Movahed - Iran
 Enyu Valchev - Bulgaria
 Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter - Mongolia
1972
 Dan Gable - United States
 Kikuo Wada - Japan
 Ruslan Ashuraliyev - Soviet Union
1976
 Pavel Pinigin - Soviet Union
 Lloyd Keaser - United States
 Yasaburo Sugawara - Japan
1980
 Saypulla Absaidov - Soviet Union
 Ivan Yankov - Bulgaria
 Saban Sejdi - Yugoslavia
1984
 You In-Tak - South Korea
 Andrew Rein - United States
 Jukka Rauhala - Finland
1988
 Arsen Fadzayev - Soviet Union
 Park Jang-Soon - South Korea
 Nate Carr - United States
1992
 Arsen Fadzayev - Unified Team
 Valentin Getzov - Bulgaria
 Kosei Akaishi - Japan
1996
 Vadim Bogiyev - Russia
 Townsend Saunders - United States
 Zaza Zazirov - Ukraine
2000
 Daniel Igali - Canada
 Arsen Gitinov - Russia
 Lincoln McIlray - United States
2004
 Elbrus Tedeyev - Ukraine
 Jamill Kelly - United States
 Makhach Murtazaliev - Russia
2008
 Ramazan Sahin - Turkey
 Andriy Stadnik - Ukarine
 Sushil Kumar - India
Otar Tushishvili - Georgia
2012
 Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu - Japan
 Sushil Kumar - India
 Akzhurek Tanatarov - Kazakhstan
Liván López - Cuba
2016
 Soslan Ramonov - Russia
 Toghrul Asgarov - Azerbaijan
 Frank Chamizo - Italy
Ikhtiyor Navruzov - Uzbekistan
2020
 Takuto Otoguro - Japan Haji Aliyev - Azerbaijan Gadzhimurad Rashidov - Russian Olympic Committee
Bajrang Punia - India

Women  Men  Medal Total
Through 2020 Tokyo Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
2004
 Saori Yoshida - Japan
 Tonya Verbeek - Canada
 Anna Gomis - France
2008
 Saori Yoshida - Japan
 Xu Li - China
 Jackeline Renteria - Colombia
Tonya Verbeek - Canada
2012
 Saori Yoshida - Japan
 Tonya Verbeek - Canada
 Jackeline Rentería - Colombia
Yuliya Ratkevich - Azerbaijan
2016
 Kaori Icho - Japan
 Valeria Koblova - Russia Marwa Amri - Tunisia
Sakshi Malik - India
2020
 Risako Kawai - Japan Iryna Kurachkina - Belarus Helen Maroulis - United States
Evelina Nikolova - Bulgaria


Medal Total  Men  Women
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 United States
 4
 6
 4
 14
2
 Japan
 7
 2
 3
 12
3
 Soviet Union
 3
 1
 2
 6
4
 Bulgaria 1
 3
 2
 6
5
 Finland
 1
 1
 4
 6
6
 Russia 2
 2
 1
 5
7
 Sweden
 1
 2
 1
 4
8
 Canada
 1
 2
 1
 4
9
 Great Britain
 1
 1
 2
 4
10
 India 0
 1
 3
 4
11
 Iran
 2
 0
 1
 3
12
 France
 1
 1
 1
 3
13
 Ukraine
 1
 1
 1
 3
14
 Azerbaijan 0
 2
 1
 3
15
 Turkey
 2
 0
 0
 2
16
 Hungary
 1
 1
 0
 2
17
 South Korea
 1
 1
 0
 2
18
 Colombia
 0
 0
 2
 2
19
 Estonia
 1
 0
 0
 1
20
 Unified Team
 1
 0
 0
 1
21
 Germany
 0
 1
 0
 1
22
 China
 0
 1
 0
 1
23
 Belarus
 0
 1
 0
 1
24
 United Team of Germany 0
 1
 0
 1
25
 Switzerland
 0
 0
 1
 1
26
 Mongolia
 0
 0
 1
 1
27
 Georgia
 0
 0
 1
 1
28
 Kazakhstan
 0
 0
 1
 1
29
 Cuba
 0
 0
 1
 1
30
 Tunisia
 0
 0
 1
 1
31
 Italy
 0
 0
 1
 1
32
 Uzbekistan
 0
 0
 1
 1
33
 Yugoslavia
 0
 0
 1
 1

Russian Olympic Committee
 0
 0
 1
 1