Men's

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competition began in the

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in 1904.

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began holding

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in men's freestyle in 1951. During Olympic years, FILA suspends the World Championships. Tsarist Russia did not send freestyle wrestlers to the Olympics for the country authorities didn't recognize the sport back then (only Greco-Roman or French wrestling as it was known then was widely practised and contested in the Russian Empire.) The Soviet Union began competing in freestyle wrestling at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. The Soviet Union boycotted the Olympics in 1984. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most former Soviet republics competed as a single Unified Team in 1992, and competed separately thereafter.

List of results by the Soviet Union and Russia in Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the Olympics and World Championships

1904

1908

1920

1924–1936

1948–1968

1969–1996

1997–2001

2002–2013

2014–2017

*Note- 61 kg and 70 kg were non-Olympic weights and were therefore wrestled at the 2016 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary on December 10–11, 2016.

2018–

Statistics

Medalists by weight, 1904–2010

Medalists by era

Average performances by era

References

FILA DatabaseUSA Wrestling Olympic Team HistoryUSA Wrestling World Team History
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