Alireza Karimi knee surgery successful
Alireza Karimi, the Iranian freestyle wrestler who was suffering a torn-ACL injury undergone a successful surgery this morning in a hospital in Tehran.
Alireza Karimi on recovery track
Alireza Karimi who injured some three months ago is now continuing his individual training as he hopes to get recovery to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Iran’s Karimi seizes bronze at Wrestling World C’ships
Alireza Karimi Machiani from Iran won a bronze medal at the men’s senior freestyle Wrestling World Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Monday. He beat his Georgian rival Dato Marsagishvili 12-1 at the 92kg. The other bronze at this category was snatched by Japan’s Atsushi Matsumoto, edging Mongolian Turtogtokh Luvsandorj 6-5. J’den Cox from the U.S., […]
Freestyler Karimi seizes gold for Iran at Asiad
TEHRAN – Alireza Karimi Machiani snatched a gold medal in the freestyle wrestling at the 2018 Asian Games on Sunday. The Iranian wrestler defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Magomed Musaev 6-0 in the men’s 97kg. Karimi beat Japanese Takeshi Yamaguchi 11-0 in quarter-final and defeated Uzbekistan’s Magomed Ibragimov 4-2 in the semi-final. Magomed Ibragimov and South Korean Kim […]
Iranian wrestler Karimi banned for six months
Iranian wrestler Alireza Karimi has been handed a six months ban for deliberately losing a bout to avoid facing an opponent from Zionist regime. United World Wrestling (UWW) has confirmed the sanction and also handed a two year penalty to his coach Hamidreza Jamshidi. An investigation was launched in December after it was alleged that Karimi […]