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List of Cadet, Junior, and Espoir World Champions in men's freestyle wrestling

The age limitations for many of the Cadet and Junior World Championships are no longer easily ascertainable, and in many cases the ages listed below are unverified estimates. There were two Junior World Championships held in 1979 and 1980.

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In the lists below, champions whose names are colored in gold, silver, or bronze, represent the highest placing medal they would win later on at the corresponding senior level World Championships or Olympic Games in freestyle wrestling. Champions colored in blue, are those who did not medal but would later represent their country at the senior level in the World Championships or Olympic Games in freestyle wrestling.

Year	46 kg	54 kg	63 kg	76 kg	100 kg
2010	Aldar Balzhinimayev	Yuki Takahashi	Azamatbi Pshnatlov	Rasul Kalaycı	Ali Magomedibirov

Year	46 kg	54 kg	63 kg	76 kg	100 kg
2014	Ismail Gadzhiev	Mukhamed Kuatbek	Teymur Mammadov	Yamasaki Yajyuro	Hajizada Igbal

Year	48 kg	55 kg	65 kg	80 kg	110 kg
2018	Umidjon Jalolov	Robert Kelly Howard	Turan Bayramov	Akhmedkhan Tembotov	Sergey Kozyrev

Year	50 kg	54 kg	58 kg	63 kg	69 kg	76 kg	85 kg	97 kg	130 kg
1999	Timothy Hill	Rene Montero Rosales	Mehdi Nikmanesh	Nicolai Paslar	Kwon-Sub Choi	Bahram Abedi	Vadim Laliev	Georgi Gogshelidze	Artyom Achigev
2000	Dilshod Mansurov	Alexander Kontoev	Abil Ibragimov	Iosef Momsedlidze	Murat Umarov	Majid Ramezani	Sazhid Sazhidov	Oleg Kallagov	Ivan Ischenko
2001	Amiran Elbakidze	Dilshod Mansurov	Ulan Nadyrbek Uulu	Shalva Muziashvili Abajevi	Ramesh Kumar	Sergey Vitkovski	Khadjimourat Gatsalov	Mohammad Hossein Khaleghifar	Palwinder Singh Cheema

Year	50 kg	55 kg	60 kg	66 kg	74 kg	84 kg	96 kg	120 kg
2002	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
2003	Farzan Bahrami	Ersin Çetin	Makhach Murtazaliev	Geandry Garzon Caballero	Sergey Vitkovski	Georgi Tibilov	Magomed Ibragimov	Hadi Pouralijan
2004	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held	No competition held
2005	Iliaz Ozumbekov	Besik Kudukhov	Vakiv Kaziev	Shamil Batirov	Mihail Ganev	Georgy Ketoyev	Amir Abbas Moradi Ganji	Beylal Makhov
2006	Ahmet Peker	Djamal Otarsultanov	Mehdi Taghavi	Darsam Dzaparov	Kakhaber Khubezhty	Imants Lagodskis	Alan Lokhov	Beylal Makhov
2007	Dashpuntsag Tulga	Djamal Otarsultanov	Mehdi Taghavi	Bubba Jenkins	Denis Tsargush	Abdul Ammaev	Valerii Andriitsev	Bakhtiyar Akhmedov
2008	Ahmet Peker	Nariman Israpilov	Masoud Esmaeilpour	Magomedmurad Gadzhiev	Magomed Zubairov	Abdusalam Gadisov	Alen Zasyeyev	Soslan Gaglojev
2009	Ahmet Peker	Hassan Rahimi	Timur Tsabolov	Jabrail Hasanov	Saeid Tavakkol	Selim Yasar	Erfan Amiri	Dom Bradley
2010	Zikrula Dadaev	Vladimer Khinchegashvili	Gadzhi Abdulaev	Alan Gogaev	Davit Khutsishvili	Andrey Valiev	Shamil Akhmedov	Muradin Kushkhov
2011	Magomed Magomedaliev	Vladimer Khinchegashvili	Toghrul Asgarov	Khetag Tsabolov	Tamerlan Akhmedov	Dato Marsagishvili	Hamed Talebi	Jaber Sadeghzadeh
2012	Magomed Magomedaliev	Erdenebatyn Bekhbayar	Behnam Ehsanpour	Magomed Kurbanaliev	Zaur Makiev	Mohammad Javad Ebrahimi	Mehran Mirzaei	Magomedgadzhi Nurasulov
2013	Süleyman Atlı	Younes Sarmasti	Akhmednabi Gvartzatilov	Selahattin Kılıçsallayan	Alan Zaseev	Vladislav Valiev	Kyle Snyder	Geno Petriashvili
2014	Khasan Hussein Badrudinov	Azamat Tuskaev	Iman Sadeghi	Hassan Yazdani	Zelimkhan Khadjiev	Alireza Karimi	Georgi Gogaev	Amar Dhesi
2015	Spencer Lee	Mahir Amiraslanov	Iman Sadeghi	Teymur Mammadov	Gadzhi Nabiev	Mojtaba Goleij	Nurmagomed Gadzhiev	Said Gamidov
2016	Spencer Lee	Afgan Khashalov	Peiman Biabani	Enes Uslu	Mark Hall	Arsenali Musalaliev	Hossein Shahbazigazvar	Kazbek Khubulov
2017	Shahin Mukhtarov	Daton Fix	Abdula Akhmedov	David Baev	Mark Hall	Artur Naifonov	Shamil Ali Musaev	Gable Steveson

Year	57 kg	61 kg	65 kg	70 kg	74 kg	86 kg	97 kg	125 kg
2017	Reineri Andreu	Rinya Nakamura	Nachyn Kuular	Richard Anthony Lewis	Gadzhi Nabiev	Alikhan Zhabrailov	Mojtaba Goleij	Geno Petriashvili

World Junior Wrestling Championships
List of Cadet, Junior and U-23 World Champions in men's Greco-Roman wrestling
List of World and Olympic Champions in men's freestyle wrestling
United States results in men's freestyle wrestling
Soviet and Russian results in men's freestyle wrestling
Iranian results in men's freestyle wrestling
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