World Wrestling Championships
Rank Wrestler Country Weights From To Gold Silver Bronze Total
1 Saori Yoshida Japan 55 kg / 53 kg 2002 2015 13 - - 13
2 Kaori Icho Japan 63 kg / 58 kg 2002 2015 10 - - 10
3 Hitomi Obara ( Sakamoto ) Japan 51 kg / 48 kg 2000 2011 8 - - 8
4 Christine Nordhagen Canada 70 kg / 68 kg / 75 kg 1993 2001 6 1 1 8
5 Yayoi Urano Japan 75 kg / 70 kg / 65 kg 1990 1996 6 1 - 7
6 Kyōko Hamaguchi Japan 75 kg / 72 kg 1997 2010 5 2 3 10
7 Zhong Xiue China 44 kg / 47 kg / 46 kg 1991 1999 5 2 - 7
8 Shoko Yoshimura Japan 44 kg 1987 1996 5 1 3 9
9 Adeline Gray United States 67 kg / 72 kg / 75 kg / 76 kg 2011 2019 5 - 2 7
10 Liu Dongfeng China 75 kg 1991 1997 5 - 1 6
10 Stanka Zlateva Bulgaria 72 kg 2006 2011 5 - 1 6
12 Nikola Hartmann Austria 61 kg / 62 kg 1993 2000 5 - - 5
Multiple gold medalists -- Women 's freestyle
The World Wrestling Championships are the Amateur Wrestling World Championships organized by the United World Wrestling. The Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling tournament began in 1904, and the Men's Freestyle Wrestling tournament began in 1951. The Women's Freestyle championships were first staged in 1987.