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What a week in Greece for the 2025 U17 World Championships! There were plenty of memorable moments as Team USA combined to earn 17 medals across the three styles. The men’s freestyle squad won the team title and the women’s team finished as the runner’s-up. While Greco-Roman did not challenge for a title, they did put three wrestlers on the podium. Over the week of action, we saw plenty of history being made by American athletes and even some from other countries. Below we have three different sections. One for each of the three tournaments. They are loaded with facts, trends, and “firsts” for the 2025 U17 World Championships. Greco-Roman The American Greco squad had three medalists for the first time since the tournament has existed in its current form. The US had two medalists in 2024, making this the first time we’ve had multiple medalists in back-to-back years. The American team had a streak snapped of three consecutive tournaments with a gold medalist. This is the first time that we’ve gone without a finalist since 2019 (there was no tournament in 2020). Two of the three medalists for the United States hail from California (Kikiniou, Calkins). Of the 12 Americans who have placed at this tournament in Greco since 2013, four are from Cali. Those two plus Cade Olivas and Cody Merrill. Uzbekistan had a staggering four champions. The last time they produced one champion was in 2022 and the last time they had multiple Greco champions was in 2018. Coming into this tournament, Uzbekistan has only seen four wrestlers win Greco titles since this event was reinstated in 2011. Now that total has doubled. Kazakhstan’s title by Kuanyshbek Zhangazhol (45 kg) was their first Greco gold medal since 2019 (also at 45 kg). For the third straight tournament, Azerbaijan has been responsible for the champion at 60 kg. Each time a different wrestler has won the gold (Ali Nazarov/25, Aykhan Javado/24, Roman Karimov/23). Hardeep won the gold for India at 110 lbs. It’s only the second gold medal for India in U17 Greco since this tournament was revived. Suraj at 55 kg in 2022 is the other. Janes Nazaryan won the 65 kg gold medal. He’s just the third Armenian wrestler to strike gold in U17 Greco, with the last being Gaspar Terteryan at 60 kg in 2022. Norway’s Abu Saga earned a bronze medal at 51 kg. The last time a Norwegian wrestler medaled in Greco at this event was Harvaard Joergensen in 2014 (bronze at 50 kg). Tajikistan’s Makhdi Barotov earned a bronze medal at 55 kg. He is just the third wrestler from Tajikistan to earn a medal at this event and the first since 2019. For the second time in three years, Greece has put a wrestler in a gold medal matchup. Prior to 2023, they did not have a finalist in U17 Greco in this version of the event. Women’s Freestyle Last week, Morgan Turner became the first American woman to win multiple U17 world titles. A day later, Taina Fernandez joined her in the club. Fernandez is the only one who has gone back-to-back, as Turner’s first title came in 2023. Turner also joins Marina Doi as the only American women to earn three medals at the U17 World Championships. Doi has all three medals which she won between 2011-13. The American team had multiple champions for only the third time in their history with this event. 2018 (Shilson/Kilty) and 2021 (Pastoriza, K. Gomez, Elor) are the others. Though they came in second place, the American women were the only country with seven medalists in women’s freestyle. Without projecting anything into the future, this American squad already features three multiple-time medalists. Turner/Fernandez/Jaclyn Bouzakis. Shokhista Shonazarova became the first woman from Uzbekistan to win a U17 world title. Hanano Oya’s title for Japan at 46 kg continued their streak of at least one champion every year they’ve participated since this tournament’s return in 2011. The tournament did not occur in 2020 and Japan did not place in 2021. The one champion for Japan ties them with last year’s squad for a low number of champions in one tournament. Madkhiya Usmanova became Kazakhstan’s first U17 women’s champion since 2013 when they had two. She’s the fourth overall champion for Kazakhstan. Surprisingly, China came into this year with only two U17 champions in their history. They left with three more gold medals. Hungary had a low-key good showing. They had three medalists after having none in 2023 or 2024. The last time they put multiple women on the podium was in 2021. Greece only has two total medals total from the U17 women’s tournament. Both have been won by Maria Gkika, who was a silver medalist last year and took bronze in front of the home crowd. Germany put a pair of women on the medal stand (Feenja Hermann bronze/65 kg and Ayla Sahin silver/69 kg). The last time Germany had multiple medalists was in 2014. Men’s Freestyle The American squad went unbeaten on Sunday to vault over Iran for the team title. Sunday saw the Americans win three gold medals and a bronze - while beating Iran head-to-head two times in championship action. The Americans finished with four gold medals. They’ve hit that mark two other times during this version of the tournament. 2017 (McHenry, Lewan, A. Brooks, Kerkvliet) and 2022 (Munaretto, Lilledahl, Sealey, Hopke). Sammy Sanchez became just the fifth American to win two gold medals at the U17 tournament. He joins Kurt McHenry, Yianni Diakomihalis, Gable Steveson, and Dom Munaretto. Sanchez was the only multiple-time champion in the tournament for any country. In his finals match, he defeated a returning world champion. (Ulugbek Rashidov - Uzbekistan/51 kg/’24). Keegan Bassett joins his older brother, Bo, as the only American brothers to win U17 titles. Since 2019, the United States has produced the gold medalist at 45 kg in all but one tournament (2023). That run includes Marc-Anthony McGowan (2019), Bo Bassett (2021), Dom Munaretto (2022), Sammy Sanchez (2024), and Keegan Bassett (2025). Bassett’s title now puts Pennsylvania in the lead with five champions in this version of the tournament. Coming into this tournament, they were tied with Illinois and Minnesota with four. Ariah Mills is the first Georgia native (the state, not the country) to win this tournament. Iran had a successful tournament, finishing second with seven medalists; however, they went 0-5 in gold medal matches. Artur Kostiuk’s gold medal for Ukraine at 80 kg is the first for a Ukrainian wrestler at this tournament since Andrii Dzhelep did so in 2016. Ayubjon Bozorzoda’s bronze medal at 71 kg makes him the first wrestler from Tajikistan to medal in men’s freestyle at the U17 championships. Kyrgyzstan had a pair of bronze medalists at the 2025 tournament. A year ago, they had four medalists in Jordan. It marks the first time that they’ve had multiple medalists in back-to-back tournaments. The men’s freestyle tournament only saw 12 different countries earn medals. The women’s freestyle and Greco-Roman tournaments had 14. (And that is counting Belarus/Russia separately, not as a part of the UWW team).