The Sports Almanac

Summer Olympics
Wrestling - Freestyle Welterweight

MEDAL TOTAL LEADERS

UNITED STATES - 18 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 2024 Paris 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
2024
Razambek Zhamalov - Uzbekistan
Daichi Takatani - Japan
Kyle Dake - United States
Chermen Valiev - Albania

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
5
18
2
Turkey
3
2
2
7
3
Russia
3
2
1
6
4
Iran
1
2
3
6
5
Japan
3
1
1
5
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
Uzbekistan 1
0
1
2
14
Belarus 0
2
0
2
15
Mongolia
0
1
1
2
16
Kazakhstan
0
1
1
2
17
West Germany
0
1
1
2
18
Russian Olympic Committee
1
0
0
1
19
Australia
0
1
0
1
20
France
0
1
0
1
21
Uzbekistan
0
1
0
1
22
Pakistan
0
0
1
1
23
Cuba
0
0
1
1
24
Azerbaijan
0
0
1
1
25
Romania
0
0
1
1
26
Albania
0
0
1
1
27
Czechoslovakia
0
0
1
1
28
Yugoslavia
0
0
1
1