They Are The Champions: 2022 Wrestling Worlds

Who Won the 2022 World Wrestling Championships?

The 2022 World Wrestling Championships concluded today in Belgrade, Serbia after 891 matches and nine days of competition across 30 men's freestyle, women's freestyle, and men's Greco-Roman events. Originally scheduled for Krasnoyarsk as host, the championships were moved to Serbia in respect for anti-doping-related sanctions in place at the time against Russia.

Team USA and Team Japan topped the medal table with seven golds each, but the Americans led the overall count 15 medals to 13 for the Japanese. Team Iran finished with ten overall, while Teams Turkey and Azerbaijan had seven each.

Note: The Paris 2024 Olympics will only feature six weight classes for each of the three disciplines, versus the 10 each in Worlds' competition. The Olympic weight classes are:

• 57kg, 65kg, 74kg, 86kg, 97kg, and 125kg (men's freestyle)
• 50kg, 53kg, 57kg, 62kg, 68kg, and 76kg (women's freestyle)
• 60kg, 67kg, 77kg, 87kg, 97kg, and 130kg (men's Greco-Roman)

See below for a photo recap of all 30 of the 2022 champions, including in the non-Olympic classes. Congratulations to all the winners! Complete results and news can be found at uww.org.

​(all photos from UWW unless noted)

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Men's Freestyle Wrestling World Champions

Jordan Burroughs' 79kg win gave him his sixth world title, and the honor of the most-decorated Team USA wrestler (Tony Rotundo)

At 57kg, Russian-born Zelimkhan Abakarov won Team Albania's first world title

Rei Higuchi took the 61kg title

Rahman Amouzad Khalili won at 65kg

Taisihi Narikuni won a gold at 70kg

With a 74kg gold, Kyle Dake won his fourth straight world title

David Taylor won at 86kg for his 2nd Worlds title

Kamran Ghasempour successfully defended his title at 92kg

Kyle Snyder wrapped up the competition with his third gold at 97kg

Taha Akgül won his third 125kg title - but the 1st since 2015 - and his seventh overall Worlds medal

Women's Freestyle Wrestling World Champions

Mayu Mukaida won the 55kg class to kick off the women's finals and Team Japan's women's medal rush, and win her third title.

Yui Sasaki is the 50kg champion

Dominique Parrish won Team USA's first gold of the event with her 53kg title

Tsugumi Sakarai won her 2nd title at 57kg

Anastasia Nichita won the 59kg class

Nonoka Ozaki won the 62kg class.

Miwa Morikawa won the 65kg class.

Tamyra Mensah-Stock now has her 2nd world tile at 68kg

Amit Elor now has a senior world title at 72kg along with a junior one

Yasemin Adar won her 2nd title at 76kg

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling World Champions

Mate Nemeš scored an upset win for 67kg gold

Eldaniz Azizli won the 55kg gold

At 60kg, Zholaman Sharshenbekov won Kyrgyrstan's second tournament gold

At 63kg, Sebastian Nađ added a third gold to Team Serbia's event tally

Ali Arsalan won an emotional 72kg gold

Akzhol Makhmudov won the 77kg class for Kyrgyzstan's first-ever men's gold

Burhan Akbudak won the 82kg class

Zurab Datunashvili won his second straight 87kg title

Artur Aleksanyan won at 97kg

Riza Kayaalp took the 130kg crown for his fifth (!) world title