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World Champions in freestyle heavyweight (97 kg)
1951
:
Bertil Antonsson
(
SWE
)
1954
:
Arsen Mekokishvili
(
URS
)
1957
:
Hamit Kaplan
(
TUR
)
1959
:
Lyutvi Ahmedov
(
BUL
)
1961
:
Wilfried Dietrich
(
FRG
)
1962
:
Aleksandr Ivanitsky
(
URS
)
1963
:
Aleksandr Ivanitsky
(
URS
)
1965
:
Aleksandr Ivanitsky
(
URS
)
1966
:
Aleksandr Ivanitsky
(
URS
)
1967
:
Aleksandr Medved
(
URS
)
1969
:
Shota Lomidze
(
URS
)
1970
:
Vladimir Gulyutkin
(
URS
)
1971
:
Shota Lomidze
(
URS
)
1973
:
Ivan Yarygin
(
URS
)
1974
:
Vladimir Gulyutkin
(
URS
)
1975
:
Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh
(
MGL
)
1977
:
Aslanbek Bisultanov
(
URS
)
1978
:
Harald Büttner
(
GDR
)
1979
:
Ilya Mate
(
URS
)
1981
:
Roland Gehrke
(
GDR
)
1982
:
Ilya Mate
(
URS
)
1983
:
Aslan Khadartsev
(
URS
)
1985
:
Leri Khabelov
(
URS
)
1986
:
Aslan Khadartsev
(
URS
)
1987
:
Leri Khabelov
(
URS
)
1989
:
Akhmed Atavov
(
URS
)
1990
:
Leri Khabelov
(
URS
)
1991
:
Leri Khabelov
(
URS
)
1993
:
Leri Khabelov
(
RUS
)
1994
:
Arawat Sabejew
(
GER
)
1995
:
Kurt Angle
(
USA
)
1997
:
Kuramagomed Kuramagomedov
(
RUS
)
1998
:
Abbas Jadidi
(
IRI
)
1999
:
Sagid Murtazaliev
(
RUS
)
2001
:
Giorgi Gogshelidze
(
RUS
)
2002
:
Eldar Kurtanidze
(
GEO
)
2003
:
Eldar Kurtanidze
(
GEO
)
2005
:
Khadzhimurat Gatsalov
(
RUS
)
2006
:
Khadzhimurat Gatsalov
(
RUS
)
2007
:
Khadzhimurat Gatsalov
(
RUS
)
2009
:
Khadzhimurat Gatsalov
(
RUS
)
2010
:
Khetag Gazyumov
(
AZE
)
2011
:
Reza Yazdani
(
IRI
)
2013
:
Reza Yazdani
(
IRI
)
2014
:
Abdusalam Gadisov
(
RUS
)
2015
:
Kyle Snyder
(
USA
)
2017
:
Kyle Snyder
(
USA
)
2018
:
Abdulrashid Sadulaev
(
RUS
)
2019
:
Abdulrashid Sadulaev
(
RUS
)
2021
:
Abdulrashid Sadulaev
(
RWF
)
2022
:
Kyle Snyder
(
USA
)
2023
:
Akhmed Tazhudinov
(
BRN
)
1951–1961 :
+87 kg
1962–1967 :
+97 kg
1969–1995 :
100 kg
1997–2001 :
97 kg
2002–2013 :
96 kg
2014–present :
97 kg
Category
:
World Wrestling Championships navigational boxes
