Other Wrestling Nations?

[witchbrow]

I know the US and Russia are very good internationally in wrestling. What are some other countries out there that are good at it?

 

[Pahlavan**]

Iran has some of the best in the world.

 

[fourfif**]

Iran has some of the best in the world.

beat me to it.

 

[halotestin**]

Eastern Europe has some great wrestling nations... also Sweden is one of the best greco-roman nations in olympic history..

 

[D4rthKitty]

Iran probably has the best wrestling in the world

Italy is pretty damn good

For some reason I want to say Egypt, but that does not seem completely right

 

[YeahBee]

Eastern Europe has some great wrestling nations... also Sweden is one of the best greco-roman nations in olympic history..

we are so good that they have to cheat to keep us from winning:icon_chee

 

[自尊心]

this is all-time olympic medal table for greco-roman

1 Soviet Union
2 Sweden
3 Finland
4 Hungary
5 Turkey
6 Bulgaria
7 South Korea
8 Romania
9 Italy
10 Poland


and for freestyle

1 United States
2 Soviet Union
3 Japan
4 Turkey
5 Russia
6 Finland
7 Sweden
8 Bulgaria
9 Iran
10 South Korea

 

[206warrior]

this is all-time olympic medal table for greco-roman

1 Soviet Union
2 Sweden
3 Finland
4 Hungary
5 Turkey
6 Bulgaria
7 South Korea
8 Romania
9 Italy
10 Poland


and for freestyle

1 United States
2 Soviet Union
3 Japan
4 Turkey
5 Russia
6 Finland
7 Sweden
8 Bulgaria
9 Iran
10 South Korea

eh?

 

[自尊心]

eh?

yeah that table differentiated russia (after fall of ussr) and ussr

:icon_neut

because u know, soviet union is not just russia... its russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova, georgia, kazakhstan, uzbekistan... etc

 

[206warrior]

yeah that table differentiated russia (after fall of ussr) and ussr

:icon_neut

because u know, soviet union is not just russia... its russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova, georgia, kazakhstan, uzbekistan... etc

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

 

[J Sho]

hmm, all time list maybe a little misleading, US have only 7 medals of all colours (inc 3 gold) from last 3 olympics, the Russians have 10 golds from the last 3 olympics, let alone other medals.

List of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

List of Olympic medalists in freestyle wrestling - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Gorgenflex]

At least there are some Canadian wins in freestyle. Canada doesn't really practice Greco so I'm not surprised of the lack of medalists. But I can say from experience there are quite a few enthusiasts in Canada.