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2022 World Juniors Wrestling Championships
Host city	Sofia, Bulgaria
Dates	15–21 August 2022
Stadium	Armeets Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Iran
Greco-Roman	Iran
Women	Japan
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The 2022 World Junior Wrestling Championships (U20) was the 45th edition of the World Junior Wrestling Championships and was held in Sofia, Bulgaria between 15 and 21 August 2022.

Competition schedule

All times are (UTC+3)

Medal table

  *   Host nation (Bulgaria)

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Japan	9	1	5	15
2	Iran	7	3	6	16
3	Azerbaijan	5	1	3	9
4	United States	3	4	4	11
5	India	1	4	11	16
6	Armenia	1	2	1	4
7	Ukraine	1	1	4	6
8	Uzbekistan	1	0	3	4
9	France	1	0	2	3
10	Germany	1	0	1	2
11	Kazakhstan	0	4	3	7
12	Georgia	0	3	2	5
13	Turkey	0	2	6	8
14	Kyrgyzstan	0	2	4	6
15	Hungary	0	1	2	3
16	Moldova	0	1	1	2
17	Romania	0	1	0	1
18	Estonia	0	0	1	1
	Tunisia	0	0	1	1
Totals (19 entries)		30	30	60	120

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	159	Iran	174	Japan	230
2	United States	132	Azerbaijan	119	India	160
3	India	112	Ukraine	93	United States	124
4	Azerbaijan	100	Armenia	83	Turkey	89
5	Georgia	98	Turkey	81	Ukraine	84
6	Turkey	78	Kazakhstan	78	Kazakhstan	71
7	Japan	60	Georgia	58	Hungary	56
8	France	57	Moldova	53	Kyrgyzstan	51
9	Ukraine	56	Kyrgyzstan	50	Poland	30
10	Uzbekistan	54	Uzbekistan	44	Uzbekistan	32

Medal overview

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Jore Volk  United States	Merey Bazarbayev  Kazakhstan	Abhishek Dhaka  India
			Ahmad Mohammadnejad  Iran
61 kg	Yuto Nishiuchi  Japan	Armin Habibzadeh  Iran	Khamzat Arsamerzouev  France
			Mohit Kumar  India
65 kg	Umidjon Jalolov  Uzbekistan	Ziraddin Bayramov  Azerbaijan	Sujeet Kalkal  India
			Yoshinosuke Aoyagi  Japan
70 kg	Kanan Heybatov  Azerbaijan	Mitchell Mesenbrink  United States	Mulayam Yadav  India
			Hossein Mohammadaghaei  Iran
74 kg	Dzhabrail Gadzhiev  Azerbaijan	Ryunosuke Kamiya  Japan	Jafar Chuliboyev  Uzbekistan
			Sagar Jaglan  India
79 kg	Sobhan Yari  Iran	Mushegh Mkrtchyan  Armenia	Mukhammad Abdullaev  Kyrgyzstan
			Otari Adeishvili  Georgia
86 kg	Rakhim Magamadov  France	Bennett Berge  United States	İsmail Küçüksolak  Turkey
			Aref Ranjbari  Iran
92 kg	Amir Hossein Firouzpour  Iran	Andro Margishvili  Georgia	Adlan Viskhanov  France
			Sergey Sargsyan  Armenia
97 kg	Ben Kueter  United States	Rıfat Eren Gıdak  Turkey	Amir Ali Azarpira  Iran
			Neeraj Bhardwaj  India
125 kg	Amir Reza Masoumi  Iran	Mahendra Gaikwad  India	Adil Mısırcı  Turkey
			Merab Suleimanashvili  Georgia

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Nihad Guluzade  Azerbaijan	Denis Mihai  Romania	Taiga Onishi  Japan
			Nuristan Suiorkulov  Kyrgyzstan
60 kg	Saeid Esmaeili  Iran	Suren Aghajanyan  Armenia	Sumit Dalal  India
			Nihat Mammadli  Azerbaijan
63 kg	Iman Mohammadi  Iran	Baiaman Karimov  Kyrgyzstan	Oleh Khalilov  Ukraine
			Chiezo Maruyama  Japan
67 kg	Kanan Abdullazade  Azerbaijan	Nika Broladze  Georgia	Danial Sohrabi  Iran
			Din Mukhamed Koshkar  Kazakhstan
72 kg	Gurban Gurbanov  Azerbaijan	Alexandru Solovei  Moldova	Amir Abdi  Iran
			Irfan Mirzoiev  Ukraine
77 kg	Deni Nakaev  Germany	Yüksel Sarıçiçek  Turkey	Samandar Bobonazarov  Uzbekistan
			Alexandrin Guțu  Moldova
82 kg	Alireza Mohmadi  Iran	Achiko Bolkvadze  Georgia	Alperen Berber  Turkey
			Rohit Dahiya  India
87 kg	Vigen Nazaryan  Armenia	Abolfazl Choubani  Iran	Maksat Sailau  Kazakhstan
			Lachin Valiyev  Azerbaijan
97 kg	Ali Abedi  Iran	Iussuf Matsiyev  Kazakhstan	Nurmanbet Raimaly Uulu  Kyrgyzstan
			Richard Karelson  Estonia
130 kg	Mykhailo Vyshnyvetskyi  Ukraine	Fardin Hedayati  Iran	Temurbek Nasimov  Uzbekistan
			Aden Attao  United States

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
50 kg	Umi Ito  Japan	Audrey Jimenez  United States	Gultakin Shirinova  Azerbaijan
			Priyanshi Prajapat  India
53 kg	Antim Panghal  India	Altyn Shagayeva  Kazakhstan	Katie Gomez  United States
			Ayaka Kimura  Japan
55 kg	Moe Kiyooka  Japan	Albina Rillia  Ukraine	Tuba Demir  Turkey
			Róza Szenttamási  Hungary
57 kg	Ruka Natami  Japan	Sofia Macaluso  United States	Sito Sito  India
			Oleksandra Khomenets  Ukraine
59 kg	Sakura Motoki  Japan	Viktória Borsos  Hungary	Madina Aman  Kazakhstan
			Ebru Dağbaşı  Turkey
62 kg	Nonoka Ozaki  Japan	Sonam Malik  India	Iryna Bondar  Ukraine
			Adaugo Nwachukwu  United States
65 kg	Mahiro Yoshitake  Japan	Priyanka Priyanka  India	Khadija Jlassi  Tunisia
			Dilnaz Sazanova  Kyrgyzstan
68 kg	Ami Ishii  Japan	Nurzat Nurtaeva  Kyrgyzstan	Sophia Schäfle  Germany
			Nesrin Baş  Turkey
72 kg	Amit Elor  United States	Anastassiya Panassovich  Kazakhstan	Reetika Hooda  India
			Sumire Niikura  Japan
76 kg	Ayano Moro  Japan	Priya Malik  India	Tristan Kelly  United States
			Veronika Nyikos  Hungary

Participating nations

562 wrestlers from 49 countries:

1.  Algeria (5)
2.  Armenia (19)
3.  Austria (3)
4.  Azerbaijan (20)
5.  Belgium (3)
6.  Brazil (3)
7.  Bulgaria (24) (Host)
8.  Canada (11)
9.  Chile (3)
10.  Croatia (4)
11.  Czech Republic (7)
12.  Egypt (13)
13.  Spain (2)
14.  Estonia (5)
15.  Finland (5)
16.  France (8)
17.  United Kingdom (1)
18.  Georgia (20)
19.  Germany (11)
20.  Greece (13)
21.  Guatemala (2)
22.  Hungary (17)
23.  India (30)
24.  Iran (20)
25.  Israel (3)
26.  Italy (11)
27.  Japan (27)
28.  Kazakhstan (30)
29.  Kyrgyzstan (22)
30.  South Korea (7)
31.  Kosovo (2)
32.  Lithuania (7)
33.  Moldova (15)
34.  Mexico (6)
35.  Mongolia (4)
36.  Norway (6)
37.  Poland (18)
38.  Romania (15)
39.  South Africa (6)
40.  Serbia (4)
41.  Switzerland (5)
42.  Sweden (8)
43.  Tajikistan (2)
44.  Chinese Taipei (6)
45.  Tunisia (2)
46.  Turkey (30)
47.  Ukraine (28)
48.  United States (30)
49.  Uzbekistan (19)

References

1. "World Championships".
2. "#WrestleSofia U20 World Championships entry list".

External links

• Database
• Official results

• 2022 in sport wrestling
• 2022 in Bulgarian sport
• International wrestling competitions hosted by Bulgaria
• Sport in Sofia
• World Junior Wrestling Championships
• August 2022 sports events in Bulgaria