The Greatest Wrestler at the Olympic Games
Who is the greatest wrestler of all time based on Olympic Games performances? We have used a weighted total medal count of each wrestler from all modern Olympic Games to rank their overall performance, using data from all Olympics including the Pais 2024 Games. 
The best performing wrestler ever at the Olympic Games is Cuban Mijaín López with five gold medals from 2008 until 2024. In the female category, the best is Kaori Icho fromJapan, who won a gold in 2016 to take her tally to four golds in four Olympic Games. See the table below to see how other athletes are ranked.
See also the best athlete from each sport, and the best overall.
Top Olympic Games Wrestlers
Here are the top-ranked athletes from the sport of wrestling (both greco-roman and freestyle) for performances at all Olympiads, using the Topend Sports Weighted Ranking System to order the athletes, awarding points for both gold (6 points) and other medals (silver 2 pts, bronze 1 pt). Only the athletes with at least three gold medals are listed.
Table: The Top Ranked Athletes from Wrestling at the Olympic Games (1896-2024)
| rank | name | country | Gold | Silver | Bronze | total medals |
rating | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mijaín López | Cuba | M | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 30 |
| 2 | Kaori Icho | Japan | F | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 24 |
Related Pages
- List of the best athlete from each Olympic sport
- The greatest ever Olympic athlete
- About Olympic Medal Ranking Systems
- medal tables from all Olympic Games
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Old Comments
- Who cares about medals when Dan Gable wins gold without a single point scored on him.
- No way Kaori Icho should be in that mix (from Mikey, Jan 2013)
- No Very wrong, Iran has at least three or four wrestlers who are in the range of 3 gold and 2 silver or even undefeated, from the 1950s Olympics up to 2012 - this is very biased.
- Kurt angle or jake varner should be up there at least someone from USA if not it will be me up there one day (from Tony halcon, Oct 2012)
