Wrestling at the Summer World University Games
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 has been an Universiade optional sport since the 1973 edition in Moscow, USSR. After that, wrestling was an optional sport in the 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.

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Winner	Second	Third
VII	1973	Moscow	Soviet Union	Soviet Union	United States	Romania
IX	1977	Sofia	Bulgaria	Bulgaria	Soviet Union	Romania
XI	1981	Bucharest	Romania	Soviet Union	Romania	Japan
XXIII	2005	İzmir	Turkey	Japan	Turkey	United States
XXVII	2013	Kazan	Russia	Russia	Japan	Azerbaijan

Games	Year	Host city	Host country	Winner	Second	Third
XXVII	2013	Kazan	Russia	Russia	Turkmenistan	Kyrgyzstan

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)	14	5	6	25
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	Canada (CAN)	2	2	5	9
14	Kyrgyzstan (KGZ)	2	1	6	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)		120	120	182	422

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