List of Cadet, Junior, Espoir and U-23 World Champions in men's Greco-Roman wrestling

The age limitations for many of the Cadet and Junior World Championships are no longer easily ascertainable, and in many cases the ages listed below are unverified estimates. There were two Junior World Championships held in 1979 and 1980.

In the lists below, champions whose names are colored in gold, silver, or bronze went also won the corresponding senior-level medal at the World Championships or Olympic Games in Greco-Roman wrestling. Champions colored blue also represented their country at the senior level in the World Championships or Olympic Games in Greco-Roman wrestling.

World Juniors Wrestling Championships[]

The World Juniors Wrestling Championships is main Wrestling Championships in World. This games was played twice in 1979 and 1980.^[1]

Edition Year Host city Host country Events 1 Colorado Springs  United States 20 2 Tokyo  Japan 20 3 Miami Beach  United States (LL) 10 Unknown Unknown (GR) 10 4 Haskovo  Bulgaria (LL) 10 Unknown Unknown (GR) 10 5 Las Vegas  United States (LL) 10 Unknown Unknown (GR) 10 6 Colorado Springs  United States (LL) 10 Unknown Unknown (GR) 10 7 Colorado Springs  United States (LL) 10 Unknown Unknown (GR) 10 8 Ulaanbaatar  Mongolia (LL) 10 Haparanda  Sweden (GR) 10 9 Stockholm  Sweden 26 10 Colorado Springs  United States 20 11 Vancouver  Canada 10 Unknown Unknown (GR) 10 12 Colorado Springs  United States 20 13 Oak Lawn  United States 20 14 Washington  United States 20 15 Schifferstadt  Germany 20 16 Wolfurt  Austria (LL, GR) 20 Dijon  France (LF) 9 17 Istanbul  Turkey (LL) 10 Unknown Unknown (GR) 10 18 Barcelona  Spain (GR) 10 19 Cali  Colombia 20 20 Goetzis  Austria (LF) 8 21 Budapest  Hungary 24 22 Moscow  Russia (LL) 10 Walbrzych  Poland (GR) 10 23 Helsinki  Finland (LL) 10 Turku  Finland (GR) 10 24 Las Vegas  United States (LL) 10 Cairo  Egypt (GR) 10 Fredrikstad  Norway (LF) 8 25 Bucharest  Romania (GR, LF) 17 Sydney  Australia (LL) 9

Edition Year Host city Host country Events 26 Nantes  France 26 27 Tashkent  Uzbekistan (LL, GR) 18 Martigny   Switzerland (LF) 8 28 Istanbul  Turkey 24 29 Vilnius  Lithuania 24 30 Guatemala City  Guatemala 24 31 Beijing  China 24 32 Istanbul  Turkey 24 33 Ankara  Turkey 24 34 Budapest  Hungary 24 35 Bucharest  Romania 24 36 Pattaya  Thailand 24 37 Sofia  Bulgaria 24 38 2014 Zagreb  Croatia 24 39 2015 Salvador da Bahia  Brazil 24 40 2016 Mâcon  France 24 41 2017 Tampere  Finland 24 42 2018 Trnava  Slovakia 30 43 2019 Tallinn  Estonia 30 44 2021 Ufa  Russia 30

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

List of 15 and Under World Champions in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling[]

Cadet Worlds, 1980 (15 and under)[]

Year
1980					Jukka Loikas	Lars Lagerborg	Vinod Kumar

Cadet Worlds, 1983 (15 and under)[]

Year
1983

List of 16 and Under World Champions in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling[]

Cadet Worlds, 1987-1996 (16 and under)[]

Year
1987
1988	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1989						Son Sang-pil				Nándor Gelénesi
1990	Şeref Eroğlu	István Majoros				Liubal Colás
1991			Piotr Jabłoński	Szulcsanyi			Tamás Berzicza	Árpád Ritter			Jason Gleasman
1992		Bayram Özdemir				Nazmi Avluca	Tarieli Melelashvili		Hamza Yerlikaya		Mirian Giorgadze
1993						Karen Mnatsakanyan		Levon Geghamyan
1994			Tahir Zahidov
1995			Tahir Zahidov							Yury Patrikeyev	Andrei Chekhauskoi
1996				Uran Kalilov		Parviz Zeidvand

List of 17 and Under World Champions in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling[]

Cadet Worlds, 1997-1998 (17 and under)[]

Year
1997
1998	Julian Kwit						Selçuk Çebi		Balázs Kiss

Cadet Worlds, 1999 (17 and under)[]

Year
1999							Selçuk Çebi

Youth Olympic Games, 2010 (17 and Under)[]

Year
2010	Murad Bazarov	Elman Mukhtarov	Urmatbek Amatov

Cadet Worlds, 2011–2013 (17 and under)[]

Year
2011	Ramaz Zoidze		Mirambek Ainagulov	Ramin Taheri	Elman Mukhtarov	Payam Bouyeri		Denis Kudla	Elias Kuosmanen
2012								Islam Abbasov
2013					Etienne Kinsinger			Islam Abbasov

Youth Olympic Games, 2014 (17 and Under)[]

Year
2014		Ilkhom Bakhromov		Islambek Dadov

Cadet Worlds, 2014–2017 (17 and Under)[]

Year
2014
2015						Aivengo Rikadze	Aleksandr Komarov		Artur Sargsyan	Amin Mirzazadeh
2016				Leri Abuladze			Akzhol Makhmudov	Aleksandr Komarov
2017			Ken Matsui

Youth Olympic Games, 2018 (17 and Under)[]

Year
2018

Cadet Worlds, 2018- (17 and Under)[]

Year
2018
2019
2020	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
2021

List of 18 and Under World Champions in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling[]

Junior Worlds, 1969 (18 and Under)[]

Year
1969			Krasimir Stefanov			Ruben Karapetyan

Junior Worlds, 1971 (18 and Under)[]

Year
1971						Anatoly Bykov

Junior Worlds, 1978 (18 and Under)[]

Year
1978				Bigelback	Norcia	Mead	Delaney			Mascharin

Junior Worlds, 1980 (18 and Under)[]

Year
1980

Junior Worlds, 1980(18 and Under)[]

Year
1980	Daniel Aceves

Cadet Worlds, 1982 (18 and under)[]

Year
1982								Georg Marchl

Junior Worlds, 1983-1984 (18 and Under)[]

Year
1983	Huh Byung-ho				Claudio Passarelli					Panagiotis Poikilidis
1984		Huh Byung-ho		Markus Pittner						Fabio Valguarnera

Junior Worlds, 1986 (18 and Under)[]

Year
1986	An Han-bong	Pedro Roque			Attila Repka		Anton Arghira			Héctor Milián

Junior Worlds, 1988–1995 (18 and Under)[]

Year
1988	Samvel Danielyan			Juan Marén			Park Myung-suk			Sergei Mureiko
1989	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1990		Mkhitar Manukyan	Marian Sandu	Yuriy Melnichenko
1991	Ibad Akhmedov			Mkhitar Manukyan	Konstantinos Arkoudeas		Martin Lidberg		Nándor Gelénesi	Giuseppe Giunta
1992		Pappu Yadav	Şeref Eroğlu			Liubal Colás			Aleksey Cheglakov
1993	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1994	Roberto Monzón	Bayram Özdemir		Choi Duk-hoon	Vugar Aslanov			Levon Geghamyan	Hamza Yerlikaya	Dmitry Debelka
1995	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1996			Roberto Monzón					Oleksandr Daragan	Davyd Saldadze

List of 20 and Under World Champions in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling[]

Junior Worlds, 1973–1977 (20 and Under)[]

Year
1973	Constantin Alexandru			Nelson Davidyan	Anatoly Bykov	Lejawa	Frank Andersson			Nikolov
1975		Asionyan			Suren Nalbandyan		Frank Andersson	Loss
1977	Benur Pashayan	Mladen Mladenov	Piwowapow				Boev	Petrov	Roman Bierla	Beloglasov

Junior Worlds, 1979 (20 and Under)[]

Year
1979		Benur Pashayan								Rangel Gerovski
1979	Mark Fuller					Crews				Reinert

Junior Worlds, 1981 (20 and Under)[]

Year
1981	Mark Fuller					Borislav Velichkov	Ernesto Razzino		Sanuk	Igor Rostorotsky

Junior Worlds, 1982 (20 and Under)[]

Year
1982								Georg Marchl
1983	Huh Byung-ho				Claudio Passarelli					Panagiotis Poikilidis

Espoir Worlds, 1984-1995 (20 and Under)[]

Year
1983				Rosen Vasilev		Mikhail Mamiashvili			Ioan Grigoraş
1984	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1985			Arutik Rubenian						Ivaylo Yordanov	Aleksandr Karelin
1986	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1987	Oleg Kucherenko		Aghasi Manukyan		Mnatsakan Iskandaryan			Reynaldo Peña		Aleksandr Karelin
1988	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1989					Nestor Almanza	Yvon Riemer			Heiko Balz	Sergei Mureiko
1990	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1991	Il Kim	Samvel Danielyan		Yuriy Melnichenko			Murat Kardanov	Sergey Matviyenko		Yuri Evseitchik
1992	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1993		Armen Nazaryan			Biser Georgiev	Khvicha Bichinashvili	Martin Lidberg	Aleksey Cheglakov	Bakur Gogitidze	Jason Gleasman
1994	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
1995		Behnam Tayyebi		Şeref Eroğlu	Tarieli Melelashvili	Tamás Berzicza	Viachaslau Makaranka			Dmitry Debelka

Junior Worlds, 1997–1998 (20 and Under)[]

Year
1997		Behnam Tayyebi					Sándor Bárdosi
1998		Uran Kalilov		Sardar Pashaei	Maksim Semenov		Yuriy Vitt

Junior Worlds, 1999–2001 (20 and Under)[]

Year
1999		Aleksey Shevtsov		Varteres Samurgashev		Aleksey Mishin		Garrett Lowney	Yury Patrikeyev
2000		Asset Imanbayev		Armen Vardanyan	Volodymyr Shatskykh			Khasan Baroyev	Georgiy Tsurtsumia
2001	Roman Amoyan	Asset Imanbayev	Şeref Tüfenk	Farid Mansurov			Masoud Hashemzadeh		Khasan Baroyev

Junior Worlds, 2002–2017 (20 and Under)[]

Year
2002	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
2003	Rovshan Bayramov		Nurbakyt Tengizbayev	Şeref Tüfenk		Denis Forov	Ramaz Nozadze
2004	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
2005	Elbek Tazhyieu	Hamid Sourian	Davor Štefanek		Davoud Abedinzadeh	Janarbek Kenjeev		Jalmar Sjöberg
2006		Zaur Kuramagomedov	Islambek Albiev			Selçuk Çebi		İsmail Güzel
2007		Aleksandar Kostadinov	Rahman Bilici		Arsen Julfalakyan	Amir Aliakbari
2008	Kanybek Zholchubekov	Aleksandar Kostadinov	Rahman Bilici	Saeid Abdevali	Elvin Mursaliyev			Rıza Kayaalp
2009			Hasan Aliyev	Saeid Abdevali		Babak Ghorbani	Yasmany Lugo	Rıza Kayaalp
2010	Eldaniz Azizli	Stepan Maryanyan	Kamran Mammadov	Chingiz Labazanov	Roman Vlasov	Artur Aleksanyan	Islam Magomedov
2011				Chingiz Labazanov		Revaz Nadareishvili	Islam Magomedov
2012		Eldaniz Azizli	Zaur Kabaloev					Bálint Lám
2013			Karen Aslanyan	Abuyazid Mantsigov	Karapet Chalyan		Musa Evloev	Sergey Semenov
2014			Elman Mukhtarov	Shmagi Bolkvadze	Furkan Bayrak	Islam Abbasov		Sergey Semenov
2015			Sergey Emelin	Ramaz Zoidze		Ali Cengiz	Nikoloz Kakhelashvili
2016		Dato Chkhartishvili		Ramaz Zoidze	Tamerlan Shadukayev	Islam Abbasov
2017		Kerem Kamal			Kamal Bey	Aleksandr Komarov

Junior Worlds, 2018– (20 and Under)[]

Year
2018		Kerem Kamal		Malkhas Amoyan			Aleksandr Komarov	Mohammad Hadi Saravi	Arvi Savolainen	Amin Mirzazadeh
2019		Kerem Kamal							Gabriel Rosillo	Ali Akbar Yousefi
2020	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
2021

List of 23 and Under World Champions in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling[]

U-23 Worlds, 2017[]

Year
2017		Shmagi Bolkvadze		Fatih Cengiz	Burhan Akbudak	Erik Szilvássy		Sergey Semenov

U-23 Worlds, 2018–[]

Year
2018	Nugzari Tsurtsumia	Kenichiro Fumita		Mohamed Ibrahim	Cengiz Arslan			Semen Novikov
2019	Shota Ogawa	Armen Melikyan	Meisam Dalkhani	Mohamed Ibrahim	Mohammad Reza Geraei		Milad Alirzaev	Semen Novikov	Arvi Savolainen	Ali Akbar Yousefi
2020	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
2021			Leri Abuladze	Hasrat Jafarov			Aivengo Rikadze	Aleksandr Komarov	Artur Sargsian	Amin Mirzazadeh

See also[]

• List of World and Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman wrestling
• List of Cadet, Junior, and Espoir World Champions in men's freestyle wrestling

References[]

• FILA Database