The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Wrestling - Freestyle Welterweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 17 Medals
TURKEY - 7 Medals
RUSSIA - 6 Medals

Freestyle Welterweight Freestyle Flyweight Freestyle Featherweight
Freestyle Lightweight Freestyle Bantamweight 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
 Charles Ericksen - United States
 William Beckmann - United States
 Jerry Winholtz - United States
1924
 Hermann Gehri - Switzerland
 Eino Leino - Finland
 Otto Muller - Switzerland
1928
 Arvo Haavisto - Finland
 Lloyd Appleton - United States
 Maurice Letchford - Canada
1932
 Jack van Bebber - United States
 Daniel MacDonald - Canada
 Eino Leino - Finland
1936
 Frank Lewis - United States
 Thure Andersson - Sweden
 Joseph Schleimer - Canada
1948
 Yasar Dogu - Turkey
 Richard Garrard - Australia
 Leland Merrill - United States
1952
 William Smith - United States
 Per Berlin - Sweden
 Abdollah Mojtabavi - Iran
1956
 Mitsuo Ikeda - Japan
 Ibrahim Zengin - Turkey
 Vakhtang Balavadze - Soviet Union
1960
 Douglas Blubaugh - United States
 Ismail Ogan - Turkey
 Muhammed Bashir - Pakistan
1964
 Ismail Ogan - Turkey
 Guliko Sagaradze - Soviet Union
 Mohammed Ali Sanatkaran - Iran
1968
 Mahmut Atalay - Turkey
 Daniel Robin - France
 Tomoriin Artag - Mongolia
1972
 Wayne Wells - United States
 Jan Karlsson - Sweden
 Adolf Seger - West Germany
1976
 Jiichiro Date - Japan
 Mansour Barzegar - Iran
 Stanley Dziedzic - United States
1980
 Valentin Raychev - Bulgaria
 Jamtsyn Davaajav - Mongolia
 Dan Karabin - Czechoslovakia
1984
 David Schultz - United States
 Martin Knosp - West Germany
 Saban Sejdi - Yugoslavia
1988
 Kenny Monday - United States
 Adlan Varayev - Soviet Union
 Rahmat Sukra - Bulgaria
1992
 Park Jang-Soon - South Korea
 Kenny Monday - United States
 Amir Reza Khadem - Iran
1996
 Buvaisar Saitiev - Russia
 Park Jang-Soon - South Korea
 Takuya Ota - Japan
2000
 Brandon Slay - United States
 Moon Eui-Jae - South Korea
 Adem Bereket - Turkey
2004
 Buvaisar Saitiev - Russia
 Gennadiy Laliyev - Kazakhstan
 Iván Fundora - Cuba
2008
 Buvaisar Saitiev - Russia
 Murad Gaidarov - Belarus Gheorghiță Ştefan - Romania
Kiril Terziev - Bulgaria
2012
 Jordan Burroughs - United States
 Sadegh Goudarzi - Iran
 Gábor Hatos - Hungary
Denis Tsargush - Russia
2016
 Hassan Yazdani - Iran
 Aniuar Geduev - Russia
 Jabrayil Hasanov - Azerbaijan
Soner Demirtaş - Turkey
2020
 Zaurbek Sidakov - Russian Olympic Committee Mahamedkhabib Kadzimahamedau - Belarus Kyle Dake - United States
Bekzod Abdurakhmonov - Uzbekistan

Women's  Men's  Medal Total
Through 2016 Rio Games
YEAR
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
2016
 Sara Dosho - Japan
 Nataliya Vorobyova - Russia
 Elmira Syzdykova - Kazakhstan
Jenny Fransson - Sweden

Medal Total
RANK
 COUNTRY
 GOLD
 SILVER
 BRONZE
 TOTAL
1
 United States
 10
 3
 4
 17
2
 Turkey
 3
 2
 2
 7
3
 Russia
 3
 2
 1
 6
4
 Iran
 1
 2
 3
 6
5
 Japan
 3
 0
 1
 4
6
 Sweden
 0
 3
 1
 4
7
 South Korea
 1
 2
 0
 3
8
 Finland
 1
 1
 1
 3
9
 Bulgaria
 1
 0
 2
 3
10
 Soviet Union
 0
 2
 1
 3
11
 Canada
 0
 1
 2
 3
12
 Switzerland
 1
 0
 1
 2
13
 Belarus 0
 2
 0
 2
14
 Mongolia
 0
 1
 1
 2
15
 Kazakhstan
 0
 1
 1
 2
16
 West Germany
 0
 1
 1
 2
17
 Russian Olympic Committee
 1
 0
 0
 1
18
 Australia
 0
 1
 0
 1
19
 France
 0
 1
 0
 1
20
 Uzbekistan
 0
 1
 0
 1
21
 Pakistan
 0
 0
 1
 1
22
 Cuba
 0
 0
 1
 1
23
 Azerbaijan
 0
 0
 1
 1
24
 Romania
 0
 0
 1
 1
25
 Uzbekistan
 0
 0
 1
 1
26
 Czechoslovakia
 0
 0
 1
 1
27
 Yugoslavia
 0
 0
 1
 1