List of World Championships medalists in wrestling (freestyle)
Welterweight
73 kg: 1951–1961 78 kg: 1962–1967 74 kg: 1969–1995 76 kg: 1997–2001 74 kg: 2002–

List of World Championships medalists in wrestling (freestyle)

Section Title: Welterweight
Table Section Text: 73 kg: 1951–1961 78 kg: 1962–1967 74 kg: 1969–1995 76 kg: 1997–2001 74 kg: 2002–

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze

1951 Helsinki	Celal Atik (TUR)	Aleksanteri Keisala (FIN)	Abdollah Mojtabavi (IRI)

1954 Tokyo	Vakhtang Balavadze (URS)	Mohammad Ali Fardin (IRI)	Yutaka Kaneko (JPN)

1957 Istanbul	Vakhtang Balavadze (URS)	İsmail Ogan (TUR)	Murtaza Murtazov (BUL)

1959 Tehran	Emam-Ali Habibi (IRI)	Vakhtang Balavadze (URS)	İsmail Ogan (TUR)

1961 Yokohama	Emam-Ali Habibi (IRI)	Mikhail Bekmurzov (URS)	Yutaka Kaneko (JPN)

1962 Toledo	Emam-Ali Habibi (IRI)	Petko Dermendzhiev (BUL)	James Ferguson (USA)

1963 Sofia	Guram Sagaradze (URS)	Petko Dermendzhiev (BUL)	İsmail Ogan (TUR)

1965 Manchester	Guram Sagaradze (URS)	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran (IRI)	Yasuo Watanabe (JPN)

1966 Toledo	Mahmut Atalay (TUR)	Guram Sagaradze (URS)	Hossein Tahami (IRI)

1967 New Delhi	Daniel Robin (FRA)	Guram Sagaradze (URS)	Tatsuo Sasaki (JPN)

1969 Mar del Plata	Zarbeg Beriashvili (URS)	Wayne Wells (USA)	Seiji Yamagata (JPN)

1970 Edmonton	Wayne Wells (USA)	Mohammad Farhangdoust (IRI)	Danzandarjaagiin Sereeter (MGL)

1971 Sofia	Yury Gusov (URS)	Mohammad Farhangdoust (IRI)	Ludovic Ambruș (ROU)

1973 Tehran	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	Jan Karlsson (SWE)

1974 Istanbul	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	Yancho Pavlov (BUL)	Victor Zilberman (ISR)

1975 Minsk	Ruslan Ashuraliyev (URS)	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	Jiichiro Date (JPN)

1977 Lausanne	Stan Dziedzic (USA)	Mansour Barzegar (IRI)	Aleksandar Nanev (BUL)

1978 Mexico City	Leroy Kemp (USA)	Mohammad Hossein Mohebbi (IRI)	Pyotr Marta (URS)

1979 San Diego	Leroy Kemp (USA)	Martin Knosp (FRG)	Nikolay Petrenko (URS)

1981 Skopje	Martin Knosp (FRG)	Valentin Raychev (BUL)	Leroy Kemp (USA)

1982 Edmonton	Leroy Kemp (USA)	Dan Karabin (TCH)	Yury Vorobiev (URS)

1983 Kiev	Dave Schultz (USA)	Taram Magomadov (URS)	Martin Knosp (FRG)

1985 Budapest	Raúl Cascaret (CUB)	Dave Schultz (USA)	Lodoin Enkhbayar (MGL)

1986 Budapest	Raúl Cascaret (CUB)	Adlan Varayev (URS)	Dave Schultz (USA)

1987 Clermont-Ferrand	Adlan Varayev (URS)	Dave Schultz (USA)	Uwe Westendorf (GDR)

1989 Martigny	Kenny Monday (USA)	Arsen Fadzayev (URS)	Lodoin Enkhbayar (MGL)

1990 Tokyo	Rahmat Sofiadi (BUL)	Nasir Gadzhikhanov (URS)	Amir Reza Khadem (IRI)

1991 Varna	Amir Reza Khadem (IRI)	Kenny Monday (USA)	Nasir Gadzhikhanov (URS)

1993 Toronto	Park Jang-soon (KOR)	Dave Schultz (USA)	Alberto Rodríguez (CUB)

1994 Istanbul	Turan Ceylan (TUR)	Victor Peicov (MDA)	Behrouz Yari (IRI)

1995 Atlanta	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	Alexander Leipold (GER)	Alberto Rodríguez (CUB)

1997 Krasnoyarsk	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	Alexander Leipold (GER)	Miroslav Gochev (BUL)

1998 Tehran	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	Moon Eui-jae (KOR)	Alexander Leipold (GER)

1999 Ankara	Adam Saitiev (RUS)	Alexander Leipold (GER)	Adem Bereket (TUR)

2001 Sofia	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	Moon Eui-jae (KOR)	Joe Williams (USA)

2002 Tehran	Mehdi Hajizadeh (IRI)	Magomed Isagadzhiev (RUS)	Volodymyr Syrotyn (UKR)

2003 New York City	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	Murad Gaidarov (BLR)	Gennadiy Laliyev (KAZ)

2005 Budapest	Buvaisar Saitiev (RUS)	Árpád Ritter (HUN)	Nikolay Paslar (BUL)

Joe Williams (USA)

2006 Guangzhou	Ibragim Aldatov (UKR)	Ali Asghar Bazri (IRI)	Donny Pritzlaff (USA)

Soslan Tigiev (UZB)

2007 Baku	Makhach Murtazaliev (RUS)	Ibragim Aldatov (UKR)	Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev (AZE)

Iván Fundora (CUB)

2009 Herning	Denis Tsargush (RUS)	Chamsulvara Chamsulvarayev (AZE)	Ramesh Kumar (IND)

Sadegh Goudarzi (IRI)

2010 Moscow	Denis Tsargush (RUS)	Sadegh Goudarzi (IRI)	Gábor Hatos (HUN)

Abdulkhakim Shapiyev (KAZ)

2011 Istanbul	Jordan Burroughs (USA)	Sadegh Goudarzi (IRI)	Ashraf Aliyev (AZE)

Davit Khutsishvili (GEO)

2013 Budapest	Jordan Burroughs (USA)	Ezzatollah Akbari (IRI)	Ali Shabanau (BLR)

Rashid Kurbanov (UZB)

2014 Tashkent	Denis Tsargush (RUS)	Sosuke Takatani (JPN)	Liván López (CUB)

Jordan Burroughs (USA)

2015 Las Vegas	Jordan Burroughs (USA)	Pürevjavyn Önörbat (MGL)	Narsingh Pancham Yadav (IND)

Aniuar Geduev (RUS)

2017 Paris	Jordan Burroughs (USA)	Khetag Tsabolov (RUS)	Ali Shabanau (BLR)

Soner Demirtaş (TUR)

2018 Budapest	Zaurbek Sidakov (RUS)	Avtandil Kentchadze (GEO)	Jordan Burroughs (USA)

Bekzod Abdurakhmonov (UZB)

Sentence(s)

Jordan Burroughs won gold medals at the world championships in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 and bronze medals at the world championships in 2014 and 2018.

final_sentence: Jordan Burroughs won gold medals at the world championships in 2011, 2013, 2015, and 2017 and bronze medals at the world championships in 2014 and 2018.