World University Wrestling Championships
# 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 | 2006 | Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia | 30 |
| 8 | 2008 | Thessaloniki, Greece | 27 |
| 9 | 2010 | Turin, Italy | 32 |
| 10 | 2012 | Kuortane, Finland | 24 |
| 11 | 2014 | Pécs, Hungary | 27 |
| 12 | 2016 | Çorum, Turkey | 24 |
| 13 | 2018 | Goiânia, Brazil | 12 |
| 14 | 2020 | Nizhny Novgorod, Russia | - |

## 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 |
