Wrestling at the Summer Universiade
Events	21 (men: 14; women: 7)
Games
1959 1960 1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1970 1970 1973 1972 1975 1975 1977 1978 1979 1981 1983 1985 1987 1989 1991 1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2003 2005 2007 2009 2011 2013 2015 2017 2019 2021 2025

Wrestling is an Universiade optional sport since the 1973 in Moscow, USSR. After this, wrestling was optional sport at 1977, 1981, 2005 and 2013 editions. Currently, two styles are competed: freestyle and Greco-Roman. At the 2013 edition, belt wrestling was also part of the program.

Editions

Games	Year	Host city	Best nation
VII	1973	Moscow, USSR	Soviet Union
IX	1977	Sofia, Bulgaria	Bulgaria
XI	1981	Bucharest, Romania	Soviet Union
XXIII	2005	Izmir, Turkey	Japan
XXVII	2013	Kazan, Russia	Russia

Medal table

Last updated after the 2013 Summer Universiade

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Soviet Union (URS)	30	16	9	55
2	Russia (RUS)	24	8	9	41
3	Japan (JPN)	15	5	6	26
4	Romania (ROM)	11	13	12	36
5	Bulgaria (BUL)	8	12	10	30
6	United States (USA)	5	6	13	24
7	Turkey (TUR)	5	5	4	14
8	Mongolia (MGL)	5	3	10	18
9	Iran (IRI)	2	9	6	17
10	Ukraine (UKR)	2	6	13	21
11	Azerbaijan (AZE)	2	4	4	10
12	Turkmenistan (TKM)	2	3	7	12
13	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	2	2	7	11
14	Canada (CAN)	2	2	5	9
15	Cuba (CUB)	2	0	3	5
16	Kazakhstan (KAZ)	1	2	10	13
17	Georgia (GEO)	1	0	6	7
18	North Korea (PRK)	1	0	2	3
19	Israel (ISR)	1	0	1	2
20	Armenia (ARM)	0	4	4	8
	Yugoslavia (YUG)	0	4	4	8
22	South Korea (KOR)	0	3	7	10
23	Belarus (BLR)	0	3	5	8
24	Poland (POL)	0	3	3	6
25	Moldova (MDA)	0	2	5	7
26	Hungary (HUN)	0	2	3	5
27	Uzbekistan (UZB)	0	1	4	5
28	East Germany (GDR)	0	1	3	4
29	Tajikistan (TJK)	0	1	2	3
30	Germany (GER)	0	1	0	1
31	Estonia (EST)	0	0	1	1
	Finland (FIN)	0	0	1	1
	France (FRA)	0	0	1	1
	India (IND)	0	0	1	1
	Latvia (LAT)	0	0	1	1
	Serbia (SRB)	0	0	1	1
Totals (36 entries)		121	121	183	425

Current events

References

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