List_of_World_and_Olympic_Champions_in_Greco-Roman_wrestling
Listed are wrestlers who were World or Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling. Greco-Roman wrestling competition was held at the first modern Olympics in 1896. The Greco-Roman World Championships was first held in 1904. The World Championships takes place during non Olympic years. At the World Championships team scoring is kept, while no official team statistics are kept for the Olympics.
Olympic Champions and Olympic competition years in Greco-Roman wrestling are highlighted in gold.
1896
1898
1904
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| Year | Team | 75 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1904 |  |  Ahlqvist, Severin (1/1) | Arnold, Rudolf (1/1) |
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1905
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| Year | Team | 68 kg | 80 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1905 |  | Schibilski, Theodor (1/1) | Hein, Albert (1/1) | Jensen, Søren Marinus (1/2) |
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1906–1907
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| Year | Team | 75 kg | 85 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1906 | | Watzl, Rudolf (1/1) |  Weckman, Verner (1/2) | Jensen, Søren Marinus (2/2) |
| 1907 | | Übler, Christoph (1/1) | Christensen, Harald (1/1) | Egeberg, Hans (1/2) |
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1908–1909
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| Year | Team | 66 kg | 73 kg | 93 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1908 |  |  Porro, Enrico (1/1) | Martensson, Frithiof (1/1) | Weckman, Verner (2/2) |  Weisz, Richard (1/1) |
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| 1908 | | Diry, Robert (1/1) | Egeberg, Hans (2/2) |
| 1909 | | Toduschek, Alois (1/1) | Schmitz, Anton (1/1) |
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1910
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| Year | Team | 60 kg | 70 kg | 85 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1910 | | Wernicke, Karl (1/1) | Altroggen, Fritz (1/1) | Buchholz, Hermann (1/1) | Sperling, Gustav (1/1) |
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1911
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| Year | Team | 60 kg | 67 kg | 73 kg | 83 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1911 | | Hyvönen, Antti (1/1) | Tuominen, Nestori (1/1) | Väre, Emil (1/3) | Asikainen, Alfred (1/1) | Saarela, Yrjö (1/2) |
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1912
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| Year | Team | 60 kg | 67.5 kg | 75 kg | 82.5 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1912 | | Koskelo, Kaarlo (1/1) | Väre, Emil (2/3) | Johansson, Claes (1/2) | None awarded | Saarela, Yrjö (2/2) |
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1913
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| Year | Team | 67.5 kg | 75 kg | 82.5 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1913 | | Hegewald, Ewald (1/1) | Baumann, Georg (1/1) | Nilsson, Ernst (1/2) | Ahlgren, Anders (1/1) |
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1920
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| Year | Team | 60 kg | 67.5 kg | 75 kg | 82.5 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1920 |  | Friman, Oskari (1/3) | Väre, Emil (3/3) | Westergren, Carl (1/4) | Johansson, Claes (2/2) | Lindfors, Adolf (1/1) |
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| Year | Team | 60 kg | 67.5 kg | 75 kg | 82.5 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1920 |  |  Reitmeier, Franz (1/1) |  Radvány, Ödön (1/1) | Fischer, Viktor (1/1) | Heinl, Michael (1/1) | Bock, Heinrich (1/1) |
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1921–1928
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| Year | Team | 58 kg | 62 kg | 67.5 kg | 75 kg | 82.5 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1921 | | Ikonen, Väinö (1/1) | Anttila, Kalle (1/3) | Friman, Oskari (2/3) | Tamminen, Taavi (1/1) | Rosenqvist, Edil (1/2) | Salila, Johan (1/1) |
| 1922 | | Svensson, Fritiof (1/1) | Anttila, Kalle (2/3) | Westerlund, Edvard (1/2) | Westergren, Carl (2/4) | Rosenqvist, Edil (2/2) | Nilsson, Ernst (2/2) |
| 1924 | |  Pütsep, Eduard (1/1) | Anttila, Kalle (3/3) | Friman, Oskari (3/3) | Westerlund, Edvard (2/2) | Westergren, Carl (3/4) |  Deglane, Henri (1/1) |
| 1928 | | Leucht, Kurt (1/1) | Väli, Voldemar (1/1) | Keresztes, Lajos (1/1) | Kokkinen, Väinö (1/2) |  Moustafa, Ibrahim (1/1) | Svensson, Rudolf (1/2) |
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1932–1936
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| Year | Team | 56 kg | 61 kg | 66 kg | 72 kg | 79 kg | 87 kg | Unlimited Weight |
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| 1932 | | Brendel, Jakob (1/1) |  Gozzi, Giovanni (1/1) | Malmberg, Eric (1/1) | Johansson, Ivar (1/2) | Kokkinen, Väinö (2/2) | Svensson, Rudolf (2/2) | Westergren, Carl (4/4) |
| 1936 | | Lõrincz, Márton (1/1) |  Erkan, Yaşar (2/2) | Koskela, Lauri (1/1) | Svedberg, Rudolf (1/1) | Johansson, Ivar (2/2) | Cadier, Axel (1/1) | Palusalu, Kristjan (1/1) |
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1948–1968
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1969–1996
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1997–2001
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2002–2013
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2014–2017
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| Year | Team | 59 kg | 66 kg | 71 kg | 75 kg | 80 kg | 85 kg | 98 kg | 130 kg |
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| 2014 |  | Sourian, Hamid (7/7) |  Štefanek, Davor (1/2) | Labazanov, Chingiz (1/1) |  Julfalakyan, Arsen (1/1) | Bácsi, Péter (1/2) | Noumonvi, Mélonin (1/1) | Aleksanyan, Artur (1/5) |  López, Mijaín (7/9) |
| 2015 | | Borrero, Ismael (1/3) | Stäbler, Frank (1/3) |  Chunayev, Rasul (1/1) | Vlasov, Roman (3/5) | Çebi, Selçuk (3/3) |  Beleniuk, Zhan (1/3) | Aleksanyan, Artur (2/5) | Kayaalp, Rıza (2/5) |
| 2016 | | Borrero, Ismael (2/3) | Štefanek, Davor (2/2) | Korpasi, Balint (1/1) | Vlasov, Roman (4/5) | Abacharaev, Ramazan (1/1) | Chakvetadze, Davit (1/1) | Aleksanyan, Artur (3/5) | López, Mijaín (8/9) |
| 2017 | |  Fumita, Kenichiro (1/2) |  Ryu, Han-su (2/2) | Stäbler, Frank (2/3) | Nemeš, Viktor (1/1) | Manukyan, Maksim (1/1) | Başar, Metehan (1/2) | Aleksanyan, Artur (4/5) | Kayaalp, Rıza (3/5) |
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2018–2019
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| Year | Team | 55 kg | 60 kg | 63 kg | 67 kg | 72 kg | 77 kg | 82 kg | 87 kg | 97 kg | 130 kg |
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| 2018 | | Azizli, Eldaniz (1/3) | Emelin, Sergey (1/1) | Maryanyan, Stepan (1/1) | Surkov, Artem (1/1) | Stäbler, Frank (3/3) | Chekhirkin, Aleksandr (1/1) | Bácsi, Péter (2/2) | Başar, Metehan (2/2) | Evloev, Musa (1/3) | Semenov, Sergey (1/1) |
| 2019 | |  Tsurtsumia, Nugzari (1/1) | Fumita, Kenichiro (2/2) | Ota, Shinobu (1/1) | Borrero, Ismael (3/3) | Mantsigov, Abuyazid (1/1) | Lőrincz, Tamás (1/2) | Gobadze, Lasha (1/1) | Beleniuk, Zhan (2/3) | Evloev, Musa (2/3) | Kayaalp, Rıza (4/5) |
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2021
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| Year | Team | 60 kg | 67 kg | 77 kg | 87 kg | 97 kg | 130 kg |
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| 2021 | | Orta, Luis (1/2) | Geraei, Mohammad Reza (1/2) | Lőrincz, Tamás (2/2) | Beleniuk, Zhan (3/3) |  Evloev, Musa (3/3) | López, Mijaín (9/9) |
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2021–2023
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| Year | Team | 55 kg | 60 kg | 63 kg | 67 kg | 72 kg | 77 kg | 82 kg | 87 kg | 97 kg | 130 kg |
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| 2021 |  | Matsui, Ken (1/1) |  Ciobanu, Victor (1/1) | Dalkhani, Meisam (1/1) | Geraei, Mohammad Reza (2/2) | Amoyan, Malkhas (1/1) | Vlasov, Roman (5/5) | Huseynov, Rafig (1/2) | Datunashvili, Zurabi (1/2) | Saravi, Mohammad Hadi (1/1) | Yousefi, Ali Akbar (1/1) |
| 2022 | | Azizli, Eldaniz (2/3) |  Sharshenbekov, Zholaman (1/2) | Nađ, Sebastian (1/1) | Nemeš, Mate (1/1) | Arsalan, Ali (1/1) | Makhmudov, Akzhol (1/2) | Akbudak, Burhan (1/1) | Datunashvili, Zurabi (2/2) | Aleksanyan, Artur (5/5) | Kayaalp, Rıza (5/5) |
| 2023 | | Azizli, Eldaniz (3/3) | Sharshenbekov, Zholaman (2/2) | Abuladze, Leri (1/1) | Orta, Luis (2/2) | Ghanem, Ibrahim (1/1) | Makhmudov, Akzhol (2/2) | Huseynov, Rafig (2/2) | Cengiz, Ali (1/1) & Losonczi, Dávid (1/1) | Rosillo, Gabriel (1/1) | Mirzazadeh, Amin (1/1) |
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12 World Level Championships
Aleksandr Karelin, 1988–1999
9 World Level Championships
Mijaín López, 2005–2021
7 World Level Championships
Valery Rezantsev, 1970–1976
Hamid Sourian, 2005–2014
6 World Level Championships
Nikolai Balboshin, 1973–1979
5 World Level Championships
István Kozma, 1962–1968
Roman Rurua, 1966–1970
Viktor Igumenov, 1966–1971
Petar Kirov, 1968–1974
Aleksandar Tomov, 1971–1979
Gogi Koguashvili, 1993–1999
Hamza Yerlikaya, 1993–2005
Armen Nazaryan, 1996–2005
Roman Vlasov, 2011–2021
Rıza Kayaalp, 2011–2022
Artur Aleksanyan, 2014–2022
The list below includes unofficial championships won during the Olympic Games, although no official team statistics are kept during Olympic years.
54 World Level Championships
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7 World Level Championships
1908–1950
5 World Level Championships
/ 1904–1920
/ 1911–1924
4 World Level Championships
/ 1896–1928
3 World Level Championships
2001–2021
2006–2022
2 World Level Championships
1984–2007
2012–2014
1 World Level Championship
1907
1971
1996
2003
2005
2023
