The 2024 U20 World Championships are currently underway in Pontevedra, Spain featuring wrestling’s future stars. The Greco-Roman portion of the tournament took place place from September 2-4 and you can see the below article for the final team standings and a breakdown of the team race.

Iran Wins Official Team Title - USA Finishes In 6th

Iran took home the official U20 Greco team tile winning 6 total medals - 4 golds, 1 silver, and 1 bronze. Russia technically scored more points than Iran but Russian athletes are competing as "Individual Neutral Athletes" due to sanctions put on the Russian Wrestling Federation. Because of those sanctions, the Russian team was not eligible to win the team title.

Team USA finished in 6th place with 3 total medals - 2 silvers (Isaiah Cortez and Otto Black) and 1 bronze (Aden Attao). Along with those medals, Team USA secured valuable team points from Cory Land (60 kg) and Aydin Rix-McElhinney (77 kg) to help them secure the 6th place team finish.

Final Team Standings:

Team points are calculated according to UWW’s top 10 placement points for world championship team scoring: 25, 20, 15, 15, 10, 10, 8, 6, 4, 2. 

*Russia and Belarus are not in the official team rankings because they are competing as “Individual Neutral Athletes.” However, we chose to include them in the above standings to show how those countries are performing at U17 Worlds.

USA's Men's Greco-Roman U20 World Team

55 kg: Isaiah Cortez - SILVER

60 kg: Cory Land - 8th Place

63 kg: Otto Black - SILVER

67 kg: Joel Adams - Eliminated

72 kg: Patrick Brackett - Eliminated

77 kg: Aydin Rix-McElhinney - 9th Place

82 kg: Arian Khosravy - Eliminated

87 kg: Ryder Rogotzke - Eliminated

97 kg: Soren Herzog - Eliminated

130 kg: Aden Attao - BRONZE