List of World Championships medalists in wrestling (freestyle)
Games Gold Silver Bronze
1951 Helsinki Nurettin Zafer ( TUR ) Ilmari Ruikka ( FIN ) Henry Holmberg ( SWE )
1954 Tokyo Shozo Sasahara ( JPN ) Bayram Şit ( TUR ) Nikolay Musashvili ( URS )
1957 Istanbul Mustafa Dağıstanlı ( TUR ) Hossein Mollaghasemi ( IRI ) Norayr Musheghyan ( URS )
1959 Tehran Mustafa Dağıstanlı ( TUR ) Stancho Kolev ( BUL ) Muhammad Akhtar ( PAK )
1961 Yokohama Vladimir Rubashvili ( URS ) Yunus Pehlivan ( TUR ) Hamid Tavakkol ( IRI )
1962 Toledo Osamu Watanabe ( JPN ) Mohammad Khadem ( IRI ) Ewald Tauer ( FRG )
1963 Sofia Osamu Watanabe ( JPN ) Ebrahim Seifpour ( IRI ) Stancho Kolev ( BUL )
1965 Manchester Ebrahim Seifpour ( IRI ) Stancho Kolev ( BUL ) Takeo Morita ( JPN )
1966 Toledo Masaaki Kaneko ( JPN ) Bobby Douglas ( USA ) Nihat Kabanlı ( TUR )
1967 New Delhi Masaaki Kaneko ( JPN ) Yelkan Tedeyev ( URS ) Michael Young ( USA )
1969 Mar del Plata Takeo Morita ( JPN ) Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi ( IRI ) Zagalav Abdulbekov ( URS )
1970 Edmonton Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi ( IRI ) Kiyoshi Abe ( JPN ) Michael Young ( USA )
1971 Sofia Zagalav Abdulbekov ( URS ) Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi ( IRI ) Kiyoshi Abe ( JPN )
1973 Tehran Zagalav Abdulbekov ( URS ) Heinz Stahr ( GDR ) Mohammad Reza Navaei ( IRI )
1974 Istanbul Zevegiin Oidov ( MGL ) Doncho Zhekov ( BUL ) Vehbi Akdağ ( TUR )
1975 Minsk Zevegiin Oidov ( MGL ) Théodule Toulotte ( FRA ) Yang Jung-mo ( KOR )
1977 Lausanne Vladimir Yumin ( URS ) Jim Humphrey ( USA ) Miho Dukov ( BUL )
1978 Mexico City Vladimir Yumin ( URS ) Yang Jung-mo ( KOR ) Mohammad Rezaei ( IRI )
1979 San Diego Vladimir Yumin ( URS ) Miho Dukov ( BUL ) Andre Metzger ( USA )
1981 Skopje Simeon Shterev ( BUL ) Marian Skubacz ( POL ) Viktor Alekseyev ( URS )
Featherweight
62 kg : 1951–1961 63 kg : 1962–1967 62 kg : 1969–1995 63 kg : 1997–2001 60 kg : 2002–2013 61 kg : 2014–
This is a List of World Championships medalists in men's freestyle wrestling.