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World Junior Wrestling Championships
World Junior Wrestling Championships
Status	Active
Genre	Sporting event
Date(s)	Mid-year
Frequency	Annual
Country	Varying
Inaugurated	1969
Organised by	UWW

The World Junior Wrestling Championships (U20) is the main wrestling championships in the Junior age category (between 18 and 20 years old), organised by United World Wrestling (UWW).^[1] This event was held twice in 1979 and 1980.^[2]^[3]

Rename

The past name for the competition was the Junior World Championships.^[4] In November 2021, the UWW renamed the Junior Worlds to U20 and Cadet Worlds to U17.

Editions

1980 in Stockholm probably was in U15 (Schools) in 13 + 13 weights
1992 (LL, GR) and 1993 (LF) was counted one edition
Not held in 2002 and 2004
Shared bronze medal awarded since 2005
1969 – 1977 / 1983 – 1995 : Espoir World Championships

#	Year	Host city	Host country	Events
Junior
1	1969	Boulder, Colorado	United States	20
2	1971	Tokyo	Japan	20
3	1973	Miami Beach / Unknown	United States (LL) / Unknown (GR)	20
4	1975	Haskovo / Unknown	Bulgaria (LL) / Unknown (GR)	20
5	1977	Las Vegas / Unknown	United States (LL) / Unknown (GR)	20
6	1978	Colorado Springs / Unknown	United States (LL) / Unknown (GR)	20
7	1979-1	Colorado Springs / Unknown	United States (LL) / Unknown (GR)	20
7	1979-2	Ulaanbaatar / Haparanda	Mongolia (LL) / Sweden (GR)	20
8	1980	Stockholm	Sweden	26
8	1980	Colorado Springs	United States	20
9	1981	Vancouver / Unknown	Canada / Unknown (GR)	20
10	1982	Colorado Springs	United States	20
11	1983	Oak Lawn	United States	20
12	1984	Washington	United States	20
13	1986	Schifferstadt	Germany	20
14	1988	Wolfurt / Dijon	Austria (LL , GR) / France (LF)	29
15	1990	Istanbul / Unknown	Turkey (LL) / Unknown (GR)	20
16	1991	Barcelona	Spain (GR)	10
17	1992	Cali	Colombia (LL,GR)	20
18	1993	Goetzis	Austria (LF)	8
19	1994	Budapest	Hungary	20
20	1996	Moscow / Walbrzych	Russia (LL) / Poland (GR)	20
21	1997	Helsinki / Turku	Finland (LL) / Finland (GR)	20
22	1998	Las Vegas / Cairo / Fredrikstad	United States (LL) / Egypt (GR) / Norway (LF)	28
23	1999	Bucharest / Sydney	Romania (GR , LF) / Australia (LL)	26
24	2000	Nantes	France	26
25	2001	Tashkent / Martigny	Uzbekistan (LL , GR) / Switzerland (LF)	26
Unit Host
26	2003	Istanbul	Turkey	24
27	2005	Vilnius	Lithuania	24
28	2006	Guatemala City	Guatemala	24
29	2007	Beijing	China	24
30	2008	Istanbul	Turkey	24
31	2009	Ankara	Turkey	24
32	2010	Budapest	Hungary	24
33	2011	Bucharest	Romania	24
34	2012	Pattaya	Thailand	24
35	2013	Sofia	Bulgaria	24
36	2014	Zagreb	Croatia	24
37	2015	Salvador da Bahia	Brazil	24
38	2016	Mâcon	France	24
39	2017	Tampere	Finland	24
40	2018	Trnava	Slovakia	30
41	2019	Tallinn	Estonia	30
42	2021	Ufa	Russia	30
U20
43	2022	Sofia	Bulgaria	30
44	2023	Amman	Jordan	30
45	2024	Pontevedra	Spain	30
46	2025	Sofia	Bulgaria	30

LL : Freestyle / GR : Greco-Roman / LF : Women's Freestyle

All-time medal table

Junior / U20 World Championship Medal Count (2000–2024)


Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	126	73	102	301
2	Japan	82	18	55	155
3	Iran	75	52	64	191
4	Azerbaijan	39	33	68	140
5	United States	38	47	82	167
6	Turkey	33	38	80	151
7	Georgia	24	33	45	102
8	Ukraine	20	28	67	115
9	Kazakhstan	12	27	39	78
10	China	12	15	27	54
11	Armenia	10	20	26	56
12	India	9	22	52	83
–	Individual Neutral Athletes	9	7	15	31
13	Uzbekistan	8	12	21	41
14	Kyrgyzstan	8	11	26	45
15	Sweden	7	3	22	32
16	Hungary	6	6	33	45
17	France	6	5	6	17
18	Germany	5	18	23	46
19	Bulgaria	5	10	19	34
20	Belarus	5	9	23	37
21	Mongolia	5	9	21	35
22	Canada	5	4	12	21
23	Cuba	4	7	4	15
24	Moldova	3	8	15	26
25	Poland	1	7	20	28
26	South Korea	1	5	8	14
27	Lithuania	1	3	5	9
28	Egypt	1	2	6	9
29	Italy	1	2	4	7
30	Serbia	1	2	1	4
31	Latvia	1	1	3	5
32	Israel	1	1	1	3
33	Colombia	1	1	0	2
33	Netherlands	1	1	0	2
35	Finland	1	0	10	11
36	Turkmenistan	1	0	1	2
37	Romania	0	10	12	22
38	Vietnam	0	3	0	3
39	Greece	0	2	7	9
40	Norway	0	2	5	7
41	Austria	0	2	1	3
42	Mexico	0	1	4	5
43	Ecuador	0	1	2	3
43	Switzerland	0	1	2	3
45	Brazil	0	1	1	2
	Chinese Taipei	0	1	1	2
	Croatia	0	1	1	2
48	North Korea	0	1	0	1
	Spain	0	1	0	1
	Venezuela	0	1	0	1
51	Tunisia	0	0	4	4
52	Estonia	0	0	3	3
52	Slovakia	0	0	3	3
54	South Africa	0	0	2	2
55	Algeria	0	0	1	1
	Bahrain	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Guatemala	0	0	1	1
	Honduras	0	0	1	1
	Sri Lanka	0	0	1	1
Totals (60 entries)		568	568	1,060	2,196

Serbia consist of Serbia and Montenegro and Yugoslavia.
was competed in 2023,2024.

Team rankings

Year	1	2	3	1	2	3	1	2	3
Year	Men's Freestyle			Men's Greco-Roman			Women's Freestyle
1969	United States	Soviet Union	Japan	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Sweden	No Competition
1971	Iran	United States	Japan	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	United States	No Competition
1973	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Japan	Soviet Union	Romania	Bulgaria	No Competition
1975	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Romania	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Sweden	No Competition
1977	Soviet Union	United States	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Poland	No Competition
1978	United States	Iran	Greece	United States	West Germany	Canada	No Competition
1979-1	United States	West Germany	Japan	West Germany	United States	Netherlands	No Competition
1979-2	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Mongolia	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Sweden	No Competition
1980	United States	Japan	Mexico	West Germany	Yugoslavia	Sweden	No Competition
1981	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Japan	Soviet Union	Hungary	Bulgaria	No Competition
1982	United States	Bulgaria	South Korea	Soviet Union	United States	West Germany	No Competition
1983	Soviet Union	United States	South Korea	Soviet Union	West Germany	Turkey	No Competition
1984	United States	West Germany	South Korea	South Korea	West Germany	China	No Competition
1986	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	North Korea	Soviet Union	Cuba	Romania	No Competition
1988	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	North Korea	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	South Korea	France	China	Norway
1990	Soviet Union	Iran	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Bulgaria	Hungary	No Competition
1991	No Competition			Soviet Union	Hungary	Turkey	No Competition
1992	South Korea	Turkey	Bulgaria	Cuba	Turkey	Russia	No Competition
1994	Russia	Iran	Turkey	Turkey	Russia	South Korea	No Competition
1996	Cuba	Russia	Iran	Russia	Ukraine	Turkey	No Competition
1997	Iran	Turkey	Russia	Russia	Turkey	Belarus	No Competition
1998	Russia	United States	Iran	Russia	Turkey	Iran	Russia	Japan	Poland
1999	Russia	Iran	South Korea	Russia	Germany	Greece	Japan	Russia	Ukraine
2000	Russia	Iran	Kazakhstan	Ukraine	Russia	Kazakhstan	Japan	Germany	United States
2001	Russia	Georgia	Iran	Russia	Iran	Turkey	Japan	Russia	Germany
2003	Russia	Iran	Turkey	Turkey	Georgia	Russia	China	Russia	United States
2005	Russia	Iran	Bulgaria	Turkey	Iran	Uzbekistan	Japan	Ukraine	United States
2006	Russia	Iran	Turkey	Turkey	Russia	Hungary	Japan	Russia	Belarus
2007	Russia	Iran	Turkey	Russia	Iran	Turkey	China	Russia	United States
2008	Russia	Iran	Georgia	Turkey	Iran	Kyrgyzstan	Russia	Turkey	Japan
2009	Russia	Iran	Azerbaijan	Iran	Azerbaijan	Turkey	Russia	Ukraine	Japan
2010	Russia	Turkey	Georgia	Russia	Azerbaijan	Ukraine	Russia	China	Japan
2011	Russia	Georgia	Iran	Georgia	Russia	Armenia	Japan	Russia	United States
2012	Russia	Iran	Georgia	Azerbaijan	Russia	Turkey	Japan	China	Belarus
2013	Russia	Turkey	Iran	Russia	Armenia	Iran	Japan	Russia	Bulgaria
2014	Iran	United States	Russia	Azerbaijan	Georgia	Russia	Japan	Russia	Azerbaijan
2015	Iran	Azerbaijan	Russia	Georgia	Azerbaijan	Turkey	Japan	Azerbaijan	Russia
2016	Russia	Azerbaijan	Turkey	Georgia	Russia	Iran	Japan	China	Ukraine
2017	United States	Russia	Iran	Iran	Russia	Turkey	Japan	Russia	China
2018	Russia	United States	Iran	Iran	Russia	Armenia	Japan	Russia	China
2019	Russia	United States	Iran	Russia	Iran	Turkey	Japan	Russia	Ukraine
2021	Iran	Russia	United States	Russia	Iran	Azerbaijan	United States	Russia	India
2022	Iran	United States	India	Iran	Azerbaijan	Ukraine	Japan	India	United States
2023	Iran	United States	India	Iran	Georgia	Armenia	India	Japan	United States
2024	United States	Iran	Japan	Iran	Kazakhstan	Turkey	Japan	India	United States

Espoir

#	Year	Host city	Host country	Events
Unit and Various Host
1	1983	Anaheim / Kristiansund	United States (LL) / Norway (GR)	20
2	1985	Colorado Springs	United States	20
3	1987	Burnaby	Canada	20
4	1989	Ulaanbaatar / Budapest	Mongolia (LL) / Hungary (GR)	20
5	1991	Unknown / Unknown	Unknown / Unknown	20
6	1993	Athens	Greece	20
7	1995	Tehran	Iran	20

LL : Freestyle / GR : Greco-Roman
After 1995 Junior and Espoir was merged.

References

^ "Junior World Championships". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^ "Athletes & Results". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 25 January 2022.
^ "International Wrestling Database".
^ "Junior World Championships 2015 wrestling results".

External links

UWW

[1] "Junior World Championships". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[2] "Athletes & Results". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 25 January 2022.

[3] "International Wrestling Database".

[4] "Junior World Championships 2015 wrestling results".

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