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