2005 World Wrestling Championships
Host city	Budapest, Hungary
Dates	26 September – 2 October 2005
Stadium	László Papp Budapest Sports Arena
Champions
Freestyle	Russia
Greco-Roman	Hungary
Women	Japan
← 2003 2006 →

The 2005 World Wrestling Championships were held at the László Papp Budapest Sports Arena in Budapest, Hungary. The event took place from September 26 to October 2, 2005.

Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Russia	5	1	3	9
2	Japan	4	1	1	6
3	Bulgaria	2	2	1	5
	China	2	2	1	5
5	Turkey	2	0	2	4
6	Cuba	1	3	2	6
7	Georgia	1	1	1	3
	Iran	1	1	1	3
9	United States	1	0	6	7
10	Belarus	1	0	2	3
11	Uzbekistan	1	0	0	1
12	Hungary	0	4	3	7
13	South Korea	0	2	0	2
14	Ukraine	0	1	3	4
15	Canada	0	1	2	3
16	Denmark	0	1	0	1
	France	0	1	0	1
18	Germany	0	0	2	2
	Kazakhstan	0	0	2	2
	Mongolia	0	0	2	2
	North Korea	0	0	2	2
22	Armenia	0	0	1	1
	Czech Republic	0	0	1	1
	Finland	0	0	1	1
	Kyrgyzstan	0	0	1	1
	Norway	0	0	1	1
	Romania	0	0	1	1
Totals (27 entries)		21	21	42	84

Team ranking

Rank	Men's freestyle		Men's Greco-Roman		Women's freestyle
	Team	Points	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Russia	54	Hungary	41	Japan	61
2	Cuba	39	Russia	27	China	52
3	Georgia	33	Turkey	26	United States	42
4	Ukraine	27	Cuba	25	Canada	41
5	Bulgaria	26	Bulgaria	24	Russia	30
6	Iran	22	South Korea	23	Ukraine	25
7	Hungary	20	Ukraine	23	Mongolia	17
8	United States	20	Belarus	20	Hungary	14
9	Mongolia	18	Kazakhstan	20	Germany	13
10	Kazakhstan	16	Iran	19	Belarus	12

Medal summary

Men's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Dilshod Mansurov  Uzbekistan	Radoslav Velikov  Bulgaria	Jon Hyon-guk  North Korea
			Bayaraagiin Naranbaatar  Mongolia
60 kg details	Alan Dudaev  Russia	Yandro Quintana  Cuba	Martin Berberyan  Armenia
			Morad Mohammadi  Iran
66 kg details	Makhach Murtazaliev  Russia	Serafim Barzakov  Bulgaria	Otar Tushishvili  Georgia
			Geandry Garzón  Cuba
74 kg details	Buvaisar Saitiev  Russia	Árpád Ritter  Hungary	Joe Williams  United States
			Nikolay Paslar  Bulgaria
84 kg details	Revaz Mindorashvili  Georgia	Yoel Romero  Cuba	Magomed Kurugliyev  Kazakhstan
			Taras Danko  Ukraine
96 kg details	Khadzhimurat Gatsalov  Russia	Eldar Kurtanidze  Georgia	Aleksey Krupnyakov  Kyrgyzstan
			Vasyl Tesmynetskyi  Ukraine
120 kg details	Aydın Polatçı  Turkey	Alexis Rodríguez  Cuba	Ottó Aubéli  Hungary
			Tolly Thompson  United States

Men's Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg details	Hamid Sourian  Iran	Park Eun-chul  South Korea	István Majoros  Hungary
			Yermek Kuketov  Kazakhstan
60 kg details	Armen Nazaryan  Bulgaria	Ali Ashkani  Iran	Eusebiu Diaconu  Romania
			Petr Švehla  Czech Republic
66 kg details	Nikolay Gergov  Bulgaria	Kim Min-chul  South Korea	Alain Milián  Cuba
			Kim Kum-chol  North Korea
74 kg details	Varteres Samurgashev  Russia	Mark Madsen  Denmark	Marko Yli-Hannuksela  Finland
			Konstantin Schneider  Germany
84 kg details	Alim Selimau  Belarus	Aleksey Mishin  Russia	Sándor Bárdosi  Hungary
			Nazmi Avluca  Turkey
96 kg details	Hamza Yerlikaya  Turkey	Lajos Virág  Hungary	Vasily Teploukhov  Russia
			Justin Ruiz  United States
120 kg details	Mijaín López  Cuba	Mihály Deák-Bárdos  Hungary	Siarhei Artsiukhin  Belarus
			Yekta Yılmaz Gül  Turkey

Women's freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
48 kg details	Ren Xuecheng  China	Iryna Merleni  Ukraine	Carol Huynh  Canada
			Makiko Sakamoto  Japan
51 kg details	Hitomi Sakamoto  Japan	Vanessa Boubryemm  France	Tsogtbazaryn Enkhjargal  Mongolia
			Wen Juling  China
55 kg details	Saori Yoshida  Japan	Su Lihui  China	Natalia Golts  Russia
			Tonya Verbeek  Canada
59 kg details	Ayako Shoda  Japan	Marianna Sastin  Hungary	Sally Roberts  United States
			Lene Aanes  Norway
63 kg details	Kaori Icho  Japan	Jing Ruixue  China	Sara McMann  United States
			Volha Khilko  Belarus
67 kg details	Meng Lili  China	Martine Dugrenier  Canada	Elena Perepelkina  Russia
			Katie Downing  United States
72 kg details	Iris Smith  United States	Kyoko Hamaguchi  Japan	Anita Schätzle  Germany
			Svetlana Saenko  Ukraine

Participating nations

621 competitors from 81 nations participated.