USA Tops Women's Team Standings at World Wrestling Championships, Turkish Women Win No Medals

The women's team title at the 2026 World Wrestling Championships, held in the Kazakh capital Astana, went to the United States. With the competitions at Barys Arena completed, the USA finished on top with 137 points. Japan took second with 135 points, and China placed third with 121 points.

Among the standout individual performers was Japan's Yui Susaki, 27, who competed at 50 kg. Susaki won all of her bouts without conceding a point, earning her fifth gold medal at the world championships. India's Manisha Bhanwala won gold at 59 kg, becoming the first woman wrestler to be a world champion in her country's history.

The picture for Türkiye was less bright. The Turkish women's national team failed to win a medal at the championships. Kadriye Aksoy Koçak competed at 76 kg and Tuba Demir at 55 kg, and both finished fifth. Türkiye last won a women's medal at a world championship featuring Olympic weight categories in 2019. At the 2025 World Championships held in Croatia last year, the women's national team had won one silver and one bronze medal.

The championships are being contested in freestyle events and will conclude on Sunday, November 1.