Year-by-Year look at USA Women’s Freestyle at Worlds/Olympics
The following is a year-by-year look at how American women’s freestyle teams have fared at past World Championships and Olympic Games.
| Year-Olympics or Worlds | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1987-W | Clermont-Ferrand | – | – | – | – |
| 1988-O | Seoul, So. Korea | – | – | – | – |
| 1989-W | Martigny, Switz. | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1990-W | three sites $ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1991-W | two sites $ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1992-O | Barcelona, Spain | – | – | – | – |
| 1992-W | Villeubanne, Fra. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 1993-W | three sites $ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1994-W | three sites $ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1995-W | three sites $ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1996-O | Atlanta, Ga. USA | – | – | – | – |
| 1996-W | Sofia, Bulgaria | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 1997-W | three sites $ | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 1998-W | three sites $ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1999-W | three sites $ | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| 2000-O | Sydney, Australia | – | – | – | – |
| 2000-W | Sofia, Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 2001-W | two sites $ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| *2002-W | three sites $ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2003-W | two sites $ | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 2004-O | Athens, Greece | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2005-W | Budapest, Hun. | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 2006-W | Guangzhou, China | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2007-W | Baku, Azerbaijan | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 2008-O | Beijing, China | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| ‘08-W% | Tokyo, Japan | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2009-W | Herning, Denmark | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010-W | Moscow, Russia | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2011-W | Istanbul, Turkey | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2012-O | London, England | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| ‘12-W% | Strathcona, Can. | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 2013-W | Budapest, Hun. | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2014-W | Tashkent, Uzb. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2015 -W | Las Vegas, Nev. | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2016-O | Rio De Janiero | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016-W | Budapest, Hun. | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017-W | Paris, France | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2018-W | Budapest, Hun. | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2019-W | Nur-Sultan, Kaz. | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 2020-O | Tokyo, Japan @ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2021-W | Oslo, Norway | 2 | 3 | 3 | 7 |
| 2022-W | Belgrade, Serbia | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Totals | 26 | 39 | 35 | 99 | |
| Olympics | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |
| Worlds | 24 | 37 | 30 | 90 |
The first women’s championships were in 1987 and started with nine weights until 1996; six from 1997-2001; seven 2002-13 and eight starting in 2014 and to 10 in 2019. The women’s first Olympics was 2004 with four weights, compared to seven and later eight at the Worlds.
$ — Sites of Multiple World Championships: Tokyo, Japan (MFS)/Rome, Italy (GR)/Lulea, Sweden (WFS), 1990; Varna, Bulgaria (MFS-GR)/Tokyo, Japan (WFS), 1991; Toronto, Canada (MFS)/Stockholm, Sweden (GR)/Stavern, Norway (WFS), 1993; Istanbul, Turkey (MFS)/Tampere, Finland (GR)/Sofia, Bulgaria (WFS), 1994; Atlanta, Ga. (WFS)/Prague, C.R. (GR)/Moscow, Russia (WFS), 1995; Krasnoyarsk, Russia (MFS)/Wroclaw, Poland (GR)/Clermont-Ferrand, France (WFS), 1997; Tehran, Iran (MFS)/Gavle, Sweden (GR)/Poznan, Poland (WFS), 1998; Ankara, Turkey (MFS)/Athens, Greece (GR)/Boden Sweden (WFS), 1999; Sofia, Bulgaria (MFS-WFS)/Patras, Greece (GR), 2001; Tehran, Iran (MFS)/Moscow, Russia (GR)/Halkidam, Greece (WFS), 2002; New York City (MFS-WFS)/Creteil, France (GR), 2003.
@ — The 2020 Olympics were delayed until 2021 because of the pandemic.
Source: USA Wrestling/UWW
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