World University Wrestling Championships

The World University Wrestling Championships, an international competition in Wrestling, have been held in alternate years since 1968 each time in a different host city.

Editions

Number	Year	Host city	N° of Countries
1	1968	Istanbul, Turkey	7
2	1996	Tehran, Iran	18
3	1998	Ankara, Turkey	16
4	2000	Tokyo, Japan	23
5	2002	Edmonton, Canada	27
6	2004	Łódź, Poland	26
7	2005	İzmir, Turkey
8	2006	Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	30
9	2008	Thessaloniki, Greece	27
10	2010	Turin, Italy	32
11	2012	Kuortane, Finland	24
12	2014	Pécs, Hungary	27
13	2016	Çorum, Turkey	24
14	2018	Goiânia, Brazil	12

Champions

Men's Freestyle

Year	Host city	55 kg	60 kg	66 kg	74 kg	84 kg	96 kg	120 kg	Team
2012	Kuortane, Finland	Khuresh Donduk-Ool	Vasyl Shuptar	Mustaf Kaya	Reza Afzali	Meisam Mostafa-Jokar	No Medal	Taha Akgül

Year	Host city	57 kg	61 kg	65 kg	70 kg	74 kg	79 kg	86 kg	92 kg	97 kg	125 kg	Team
2014	Pécs, Hungary	Fumitaka Morishita	Tuvshintulga Tumenbileg	Selahattin Kilicsallayan	Evgheni Nedealco	Tyler Caldwell	No Participant	Piotr Ianulov	No Participant	Fatih Yasarli	Tyrell Fortune	United States
2016	Çorum, Turkey	Younes Sarmasti	Viktor Rassadin	Meirzhan Ashirov	Nadirbeg Khizriev	Reza Afzali	No Participant	Mohammad Javad Ebrahimi	No Participant	Amir Mohammadi	Seyyed Reza Mousavi Kani	Iran
2018	Goiânia, Brazil	Yudai Fujita	Eduard Grigorev	Kei Yonezawa	Kirin Kinoshita	Muhammet Akdeniz	Tazhitin Akaev	Osman Göçen	Mustafa Sessiz	Asadula Ibragimov	Balint Borsos	Japan

Men's Greco-Roman

Year	Host city	55 kg	60 kg	66 kg	74 kg	84 kg	96 kg	120 kg	Team
2012	Kuortane, Finland	Max Nowry	Donior Islamov	Istvan Kozak	Hadi Alizadeh	Taleb Nematpour	Nikita Melnikov	Bashir Babajanzadeh

Year	Host city	59 kg	66 kg	71 kg	75 kg	80 kg	86 kg	98 kg	130 kg	Team
2014	Pécs, Hungary	Kanybek Zholchubekov	Jäger Krisztián	Tamás Lőrincz	László Szabó	Aslan Atem	Metehan Başar	Ivan Nemeth	Bálint Lám	Hungary
2016	Çorum, Turkey	Kanybek Zholchubekov	No Participant	Pavel Liakh	No Participant	Peter Nagy	No Participant	Fatih Baskoy	No Participant	Turkey

Year	Host city	55 kg	60 kg	63 kg	67 kg	72 kg	77 kg	82 kg	87 kg	97 kg	130 kg	Team
2018	Goiânia, Brazil	Ekrem Öztürk	Rodoslav Vasilev	Yusuke Kitaoka	Arten Manasov	Murat Dag	Fatih Cengiz	Burhan Akbudak	Ali Cengiz	Fatih Baskoy	Osman Yildirim	Turkey

Women's Freestyle

Year	Host city	55 kg	59 kg	63 kg	67 kg	72 kg	Team
2012	Kuortane, Finland	Iryna Husyak	Yurika Ito	Yuliya Ostapchuk	Yulia Prontsevich	Adeline Gray

Year	Host city	48 kg	53 kg	55 kg	58 kg	60 kg	63 kg	69 kg	75 kg	Team
2014	Pécs, Hungary	Jasmine Mian	Iulia Leorda	Chiho Hamada	Emese Barka	Mariia Liulkova	Danielle Lappage	Dorothy Yeats	Erica Wiebe	Canada
2016	Çorum, Turkey	Allyssa Cleaves Canada	Milana Dadasheva	Bediha Gün	Veronika Chumikova	Linda Morais	Anzhela Fomenko	Buse Tosun	Justina Di Stasio	Canada

Year	Host city	50 kg	53 kg	55 kg	57 kg	59 kg	62 kg	65 kg	68 kg	72 kg	76 kg	Team
2018	Goiânia, Brazil	Jade Dufour	Miho Igarashi	Elena Brugger	Ramóna Galambos	Laurence Beauregard	Linda Morais	Misuzu Enomoto	Indira Moores	Mei Shindo	Francy Rädelt	Canada

References

Sources

• 13th World University Wrestling Championship 2018
• 12th World University Wrestling Championship 2016
• 11th World University Wrestling Championship 2014