Soviet and Russian results in men's freestyle wrestling

List of Results by the Soviet Union and Russia in Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the Olympics and World Championships

Men's freestyle wrestling competition began in the Olympics in 1904. FILA began holding World Championships in men's freestyle in 1951.

During Olympic years, FILA suspends the World Championships.

Tsarist Russia did not send freestyle wrestlers to the Olympics. The Soviet Union began competing in freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics. The Soviet Union boycotted the Olympics in 1984. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, most former Soviet republics competed as a single Unified Team in 1992, and competed separately thereafter.