Here's a list of the best wrestling countries. Methodology used is medals won at the Olympics and World Championships in freestyle and greco-roman since 1993. 1993 was the first year that had all of the new countries from the former Soviet Union. Since then, 38 countries have won wrestling medals. Top ten countries in order are: Russia, America, Cuba, Iran, Turkey, South Korea, Bulgaria, Ukraine, Georgia and Germany.
This is a list of rank, total medals, total points based on 3 points for gold, 2 for silver and 1 for bronze and average weight in kg of all medal winners since 1993. Rank tie breakers are based on gold, silver then bronze medals won.
rank, country, total medals, total points, average weight
1 Russia 117, 267, 83.5
2 America 67, 139, 83.2
3 Cuba 62, 120, 77.5
4 Iran 50, 99, 76.1
5 Turkey 41, 84, 86.8
6 South Korea 38, 77, 62.9
7 Bulgaria 30, 62, 68.0
8 Ukraine 36, 59, 77.3
9 Georgia 27, 46, 81.6
10 Germany 27, 44, 79.6
11 Kazakhstan 21, 41, 72.5
12 Uzbekistan 19, 38, 82.9
13 Armenia 16, 35, 62.9
14 Poland 18, 35, 79.6
15 Belarus 20, 33, 86.3
16 Hungary 17, 31, 91.4
17 Sweden 14, 30, 90.9
18 Azerbaijan 12, 26, 60.1
19 Canada 8, 16, 61.8
20 Finland 8, 14, 73.4
21 Egypt 6, 12, 85.0
22 Moldova 6, 12, 100.2
23 France 6, 11, 71.3
24 Japan 8, 11, 61.8
25 North Korea 6, 9, 55.7
26 Romania 6, 9, 66.8
27 Israel 5, 8, 84.4
28 China 4, 7, 59.8
29 Mongolia 4, 6, 57.5
30 Czech Republic 3, 5, 84.3
31 Kyrgyzstan 4, 5, 78.8
32 Greece 4, 4, 78.8
33 Estonia 1, 3, 96.0
34 Macedonia 2, 3, 85.0
35 Denmark 2, 3, 74.0
36 Turkmenistan 1, 2, 55.0
37 Slovakia 1, 1, 84.0
38 Italy 1, 1, 62.0
