All-Time USA Men’s Freestyle at World Championships and Olympic Games
The following is a year-by-year look at how USA Wrestling men’s freestyle has performed in World Championships and Olympic Games.
| Year-Olympics or Worlds | Location | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| 1896-O | Athens, Greece | – | – | – | – |
| 1900-O | Paris, France | – | – | – | – |
| 1904-O | St. Louis, Mo. | 7 | 7 | 7 | 21 |
| 1908-O | London, England | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 1912-O | Stockholm, Swe. ^ | – | – | – | – |
| 1920-O | Antwerp, Belgium | 1 | 2 | 3 | 6 |
| 1924-O | Paris, France | 4 | 1 | 1 | 6 |
| 1928-O | Amsterdam, Hol. | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1932-O | Los Angeles, Ca. | 3 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| 1936-O | Berlin, W. Germ. | 1 | 3 | 0 | 4 |
| 1948-O | London, England | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| 1952-O | Helsinki, Finland | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| 1956-O | Melbourne, Aust. | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1960-O | Rome, Italy | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| 1961-W | Yokohama, Jap. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1962-W | Toledo, Ohio | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1963-W | two sites $ | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 1964-O | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1965-W | two sites $ | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 1966-W | Toledo | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| 1967-W | two sites $ | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1968-O | Mexico City | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 1969-W | Mar del Plata, Arg. | 2 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| 1970-W | Edmonton, Can. | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| 1971-W | Sofia, Bulgaria | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1972-O | Munich, W. Germ. | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1973-W | Tehran, Iran | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1974-W | two sites $ | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1975-W | Minsk, Soviet U. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1976-O | Montreal, Can. | 1 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| 1977-W | two sites $ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 1978-W | Mexico City, Mex. | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 1979-W | San Diego, Cal. | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| •1980-O | Moscow, Soviet U. | – | – | – | – |
| 1981-W | two sites $ | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 1982-W | two sites $ | 1 | 0 | 3 | 4 |
| 1983-W | Kiev, Soviet U. | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| #1984-O | Los Angeles, Ca. | 7 | 2 | 0 | 9 |
| 1985-W | two sites $ | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| 1986-W | Budapest, Hun. | 1 | 4 | 2 | 7 |
| 1987-W | Clermont-Ferrand | 2 | 3 | 3 | 8 |
| 1988-O | Seoul, So. Korea | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 1989-W | Martigny, Switz. | 2 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| 1990-W | three sites $ | 1 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
| 1991-W | two sites $ | 3 | 3 | 0 | 6 |
| 1992-O | Barcelona, Spain | 3 | 2 | 1 | 6 |
| 1992-W | Villeubanne, Fra. | – | – | – | – |
| 1993-W | three sites $ | 4 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| 1994-W | three sites $ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 1995-W | three sites $ | 4 | 0 | 2 | 6 |
| 1996-O | Atlanta, Ga. USA | 3 | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| 1996-W | Sofia, Bulgaria | – | – | – | – |
| 1997-W | three sites $ | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| 1998-W | three sites $ | 1 | 0 | 2 | 3 |
| 1999-W | three sites $ | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 2000-O | Sydney, Australia | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2000-W | Sofia, Bulgaria | – | – | – | – |
| 2001-W | two sites $ | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| *2002-W | three sites $ | – | – | – | – |
| 2003-W | two sites $ | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2004-O | Athens, Greece | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| 2005-W | Budapest, Hun. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2006-W | Guangzhou, China | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| 2007-W | Baku, Azerbaijan | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2008-O | Beijing, China | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| ‘08-W% | Tokyo, Japan | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009-W | Herning, Denmark | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| 2010-W | Moscow, Russia | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011-W | Istanbul, Turkey | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2012-O | London, England | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| ‘12-W% | Strathcona, Can. | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013-W | Budapest, Hun. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2014-W | Tashkent, Uzb. | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| 2015 -W | Las Vegas, Nev. | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2016-O | Rio De Janiero | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2016-W | Budapest, Hun. | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017-W | Paris, France | 2 | 2 | 2 | 6 |
| 2018-W | Budapest, Hun. | 3 | 1 | 3 | 7 |
| 2019-W | Nur-Sultan, Kaz. | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 |
| 2020-O | Tokyo, Japan @ | 2 | 1 | 2 | 5 |
| 2021-W | Oslo, Norway | 3 | 3 | 1 | 7 |
| 2022-W | Belgrade, Serbia | 4 | 4 | 0 | 8 |
| Totals | 105 | 92 | 84 | 281 | |
| Olympics | 52 | 37 | 29 | 118 | |
| Worlds | 53 | 55 | 55 | 163 |
$ — Sites of Multiple World Championships: Sofia, Bulgaria (MFS)/Helsingborg, Sweden (GR), 1963; Manchester, England (MFS)/Tampere, Finland (GR) 1965; New Delhi, India (MFS)/Bucharest, Romania (GR), 1967; Istanbul, Turkey (MFS)/Katowice, Poland (GR), 1974; Lausanne, Switzerland (MFS)/Goteburg, Sweden (GR), 1977; Skoplje, Yugoslavia (MFS)/Oslo, Norway (GR), 1981; Edmonton, Canada (MFS)/Katowice, Poland (GR), 1982; Budapest, Hungary (MFS)/Kobaltn, Norway (GR), 1985; 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.
• — Team USA did not compete in the 1980 Moscow Games because of the U.S. boycott.
# — Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc nations boycotted the 1984 Los Angeles Games.
* — The men’s freestyle team did not compete at the 2002 Worlds in Tehran, Iran, due to a credible threat.
@ — The 2020 Olympics were delayed until 2021 because of the pandemic.
^ — Only Greco-Roman was contested in the 1912 Stockholm, Sweden Olympics.
Eligible weights in men’s freestyle and Greco consisted of eight from 1960-68; ten from 1969-96; eight from 1997-2001; seven from 2002-13, eight starting in 2014 and back to 10 in 2019. In 2016, the UWW also sponsored a World Championships in the two weights (in each style) that were not included in the 2016 Olympics. 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. Source: USA Wrestling/UWW
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