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Iran Greco-Roman wrestling team crowned champion at Zagreb Open Ranking Event

siavash — Tue, 11 Feb 2025 06:02:54 +0000

Iran Greco-Roman wrestling team crowned champion at Zagreb Open Ranking Event

TEHRAN (Iran News)Iran’s Greco-Roman wrestling team has secured first place at the Zagreb Open Ranking Event.

The Iranian team won two gold, three silver, and one bronze medal at the sporting event held in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia.

Gholam-Reza Farrokhi in the 82 kg category and Ali-Akbar Yousefi in the 130 kg category won gold medals.

Other Iranian athletes, Mehdi Ahadi (55 kg), Mohammad-Mehdi Keshtkar (63 kg), and Danial Sohrabi (72 kg), earned silver medals.

Additionally, Pouya Naserpour, in the 60 kg weight class, secured a bronze medal.

The Islamic Republic of Iran claimed the team title in men’s Greco-Roman with 147 points, surpassing the Republic of Azerbaijan (134 points), and Hungary (119 points).

The 2025 Zagreb Open Ranking Event took place from February 7 to 9, 2025.

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Aliakbari Joins ONE Championship in Wrestling

reporter 1222 — Wed, 05 Aug 2020 08:46:10 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – ONE Championship has signed former Greco-Roman wrestling world champion Amir Aliakbari to a contract.

The plan is for Aliakbari to debut in ONE at the end of October, Aliakbari’s manager, Ali Abdelaziz, told ESPN.

Aliakbari (10-1) has won five in a row, with his lone career loss coming to MMA legend Mirko Cro Cop. He is considered a difference-maker in the heavyweight division.

Last week, ONE signed 13-time Brazilian jiu-jitsu world champion Marcus “Buchecha” Almeida to his first MMA contract.

Aliakbari has finished seven of his 10 victories by TKO. The 32-year-old signed with the UFC last year, but he withdrew from the promotion because of a doping ban handed down by the international amateur wrestling governing body, as well as sanctions on his native Iran from the United States.

“My name is Amir Aliakbari,” Aliakbari said in a statement provided to ESPN. “This is the real Iron Sheik, the pride of Iran. The USA has one guy named Iron Sheik but he’s a fake — fake wrestler. I’m glad to sign with ONE Championship, I’m going to invade their heavyweight division, and fight (champion) Brandon Vera.”

“When I’m finished with him they’re not going to recognize him because I will disfigure his face. I believe I’m the best heavyweight in the world today. I’m unstoppable. I’m coming to ONE Championship and I’m bringing the entire Persian army with me — no one is safe.”

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Cuban Greco-Roman team left Tehran by World Cup cancelation

reporter 1222 — Mon, 02 Dec 2019 10:17:58 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Cuban national Greco-Roman wrestling team left Tehran in the early hours of Monday as World cup rounds were called canceled.

The 2019 Greco-Roman World Cup was slated to be held on Tehran on Nov. 28-29 but the United World Wrestling announced last Monday that the event has been ‘postponed’ until further notice. The body described security concerns in Iran as the main reason behind this decision.

Meanwhile, the Cuban Greco-Roman team had already entered Tehran on Monday and was scheduled to hold a joint camp with the Iranian team before participating in the World Cup. However, a few days after the announcement of UWW’s decision, Iranian teams coach Mohammad Bana shut down the training and sent players back to their homes.

The Iranian wrestling federation said that it has offered evidence of Iran’s safety to UWW, expressing hope that the event would be held in the coming days. However, UWW didn’t issue any statement to clarify the situation and only removed the event from its calendar on its website to raise speculations of total cancellation.

The federation hosted the Cuban team during the past week, even organizing some tours in Tehran for the team to get Cubans acquainted with some tourist sites and the Iranian culture.

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Greco-Roman World Cup Host for 2019: Iran

reporter 1222 — Wed, 27 Nov 2019 11:11:39 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran’s Ministry of Sport and Youth Affairs announced on Wednesday that the 2019 Greco-Roman World Cup host will surely be Iran.

“With the efforts of the National Olympic Committee, Iran’s Wrestling Federation and talks with President of Russian Wrestling Federation Mikhail Mamiashvili, and also contributions of Iranian Foreign Ministry and using capacities of Georgian, Japanese, and Russian envoys to Iran, the Greco-Roman World Cup host has been choosed as Tehran with a change in its date,” said the ministry.

The United World Wrestling announced on Sunday that the Greco-Roman World Cup, which was slated to take place in Tehran on Nov. 28-29, has been postponed till further notice, citing concerns over security situation as the reason behind the decision.

Meanwhile, the Iranian Wrestling Federation objected to the decision. “Everything is ready for an ideal hosting of the event; so I believe postponing the games is meaningless,” the federation’s spokesman Hassan Rangraz said on Monday in an interview with IRIB.

He said that the federation was trying to present the required clues and evidence to the international body to prove the country’s stable condition and its readiness to hold the event.

Also, President of Iran’s National Olympic Committee Reza Salehi Amiri officially protested to the decision in a letter to the president of the United World Wrestling (UWW) Nenad Lalović on Tuesday.

Rangraz said on Wednesday that “we will definitely host the World Cup but we are waiting to receive information [from UWW] about the exact date of the event.”

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Abdevali collects Iran’s first medal in 2019 World Wrestling C’ships

reporter 1222 — Tue, 17 Sep 2019 05:51:13 +0000

In the 82kg category of men’s Greco-Roman event, Abdvali repeated his bronze medal in world competitions with a 7-0 victory over Ukraine’s Iurii Sckruiba 7-0. The other bronze went to China’s Qian Haitao.

Georgia’s Lasha Gobadze overpowered Azerbaijan’s Rafig Huseynov 5-3 in the final of this weight category.

Here are results of Greco-Roman event on Sunday according to United World Wrestling:

55kg (20 entries)

Gold – Nugzari TSURTSUMIA (GEO) df. Khorlan ZHAKANSHA (KAZ) by TF, 9-0, :58

Bronze – Eldaniz AZIZLI (AZE) df. Max NOWRY (USA) by TF, 8-0, :38

Bronze – Shota OGAWA (JPN) df. CAO Liguo (CHN) by TF, 11-2, 2:34

63kg (18 entries)

Gold – Shinobu OTA (JPN) df. Stepan MARYANYAN (RUS), 10-4

Bronze – Slavik GALSTYAN (ARM) df. Meysam DALKHANI (IRI), 7-5

Bronze – Almat KEBISPAYEV (KAZ) df. Tynar SHARSHENBEKOV (KGZ) by TF, 9-0, 2;32

72kg (25 entries)

Gold – Abulazid MANTSIGOV (RUS) df. Aram VARDANYAN (UZB) by TF, 9-0, :54

Bronze – Aik MNATSAKANIAN (BUL) df. Michael WIDMAYER (GER), 3-3

Bronze – Balint KORPASI (HUN) df. LEE Jiyeon (KOR) by TF, 9-0, 4:43

82kg (23 entries)

Gold – Lasha GOBADZE (GEO) df. Rafig HUSEYNOV (AZE), 5-3

Bronze – QIAN Haitao (CHN) df. Nurbek KHASHIMBEKOV (UZB) by Fall, :51 (4-4)

Bronze – Saied ABDVALI (IRI) df. Iurii SCKRUIBA (UKR), 7-0

The 2019 Senior Wrestling World Championships kicked off on September 14 at the Barys Arena in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

The 9-day Wrestling World Championships is the first qualification event for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. The top six finishers in each Olympic weight category in Nur-Sultan will secure an Olympic qualification for their nation, according to the United World Wrestling. The remaining qualification spots will be earned at continental competitions and a “Last Chance Qualifier” during the 2020 competition calendar.

The event started with Greco-Roman on Saturday and will be followed by women’s wrestling and concluding with men’s freestyle.

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Iran wins two golds at 2019 Greco-Roman Junior World C’ship

reporter 1222 — Sun, 18 Aug 2019 07:50:07 +0000

Iran’s Mohammad Naghousi edged past Russia’s Damir Rakhimov in the final of 77kg to earn the world title.

The other gold was gained by Aliakbar Yousofi who overpowered USA’s Cohlton Michael Schultz in the final match of 130kg.

Shahin Eidi Badaghi and Poya Soulat Dadmarz also won two bronze medals for Iran in 65kg and 55kg.

At the end of Saturday matches, Iran stands second with 90 points following Russia which has collected 97 points. The competition will continue today in the next five weight categories.

The 2019 edition of World Junior Championships kicked off on August 12 in Estonia’s Tallinn in freestyle, Greco-Roman and women’s categories. The event will end on August 18.

Here are the full results of Saturday matches as reported by the United World Wrestling:

Team Scores (After Day 6)

GOLD – Russia (97 points)

SILVER – Iran (90 points)

BRONZE – Georgia (56 points)

Fourth – Turkey (42 points)

Fifth – United States (41 points)

55kg

GOLD – Anvar ALLAKHIAROV (RUS) df. Zaur ALIYEV (AZE), 9-4

BRONZE – Ken MATSUI (JPN) df. Nurmukhammet ABDULLAEV (KGZ), 13-12

BRONZE – Poya Soulat DAD MARZ (IRI) df. Tigran MINASYAN (ARM), 2-0

63kg

GOLD – Abu AMAEV (RUS) df. Leri ABULADZE (GEO), 5-3

BRONZE – Shahin Eidi BADAGHI MOFRAD (IRI) df. Nikalas Petrov SULEV (BUL), 3-2

BRONZE – Alston Jon NUTTER (USA) df. Kamil CZARNECKI (POL), via fall

77kg

GOLD – Mohammad NAGHOUSI (IRI) df. Damir RAKHIMOV (RUS), 2-1

BRONZE – Dmytro VASETSKYI (UKR) df. Exauce MUKUBU (NOR) , 3-2

BRONZE – Sajan SAJAN (IND) df. Abdurrahman KALKAN (TUR), 11-1

87kg

GOLD – Ilia ERMOLENKO (RUS) df. Giorgi KATSANASHVILI (GEO), 2-0

BRONZE – Bedirhan TAN (TUR) df. Jacob Edward LOGAARD (SWE), 3-0

BRONZE – Ihar YARASHEVICH (BLR) df. Hasan FOROUZANDEH GHOJEHBEIGLOU (IRI), 4-4

130kg

GOLD – Aliakbar YOUSOFIAHMADCHALI (IRI) df. Cohlton Michael SCHULTZ (USA), 2-1

BRONZE – Dariusz VITEK (HUN) df. Lu ZHANG (CHN), 3-2

BRONZE – Muhammet Hamza BAKIR (TUR) df. Robinzon ESADZE (GEO), 5-1

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Iran cadet Greco-Roman wrestlers win world title for 4th time

reporter 1222 — Mon, 05 Aug 2019 06:10:52 +0000

At the end of 2019 cadet World Championships today in Sofia, Bulgaria, the Iranian Teenage Greco-Roman wrestlers became champions after collecting 4 gold medals.

Amirreza Dehbozorgi (48kg) Saeed Esmaili (51kg), Reza Saki (71kg) and Shahrokh Mikaili (110kg) were the four Greco-Roman wrestlers who won four gold medals for Iran.

Iran won the world championships with 148 points, followed by Azerbaijani and Russian teams in the second and third places with 123 and 99 points, respectively.

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Iran wins title of 2019 Cadet Asian GR Wrestling C’ship

reporter 1222 — Sat, 06 Jul 2019 05:30:35 +0000

Iranian wrestlers earned four gold, two silver and one bronze medal. Amirreza Dehbozorgi (48kg), Saeid Esmaeili (51kg) and Saeid Karimizadeh (92kg), and Hojjat Rezaei (65kg) were the gold-winners of Iran in the event.

Danial Sohrabi (60kg) and Reza Saki (70kg) gained silver medals of their categories while Iran’s sole bronze medal was gained by Shahrokh Mikaeilizadeh (110kg).

Iran claimed the event’s title with 181 points while Kazakhstan and India ranked next.

Cadet Asian Wrestling Championships kicked off in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan on July four. The competition will continue today with freestyle event where Iranian wrestlers will also compete for the podium. The event will wrap up on Sunday.

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Iran finishes 2nd at Greco Roman wrestling in Kazakhstan

reporter 1222 — Tue, 28 May 2019 06:31:15 +0000

The Bolat Turlykhanov Memorial Greco Roman tournament was held on 25-26 May 2019 in Kazakhstan’s Almaty with participation of 181 wrestlers from Iran, Kazakhstan, Armenia, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, Belarus, Ukraine, Kyrgyzstan, Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, Moldova and Mongolia in six weight categories.

At the end of the tournament, the Iranian team garnered five medals and finished second after Russia.

Medal winners for Iran included Alireza Nejati (gold, 60kg), Ramin Taheri (silver, 87kg), Mohammad Javad Rezaei (bronze, 67kg), Pezhman Pashtam (bronze, 77kg), and Shahab Ghoure-Jalili (bronze, 130kg).

Host country Kazakhstan claimed the third place of the tournament.

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Official rejects mediatory nature of Oman talks with Iran

reporter 1222 — Wed, 22 May 2019 12:02:06 +0000

Vaezi told reporters on Wednesday that as long as US officials continue with the same pressure policy and violation of their commitments, holding negotiations with them makes no sense.

“Recently, we’ve seen various countries trying to preserve the nuclear deal and at the same time prevent conflicts in the region,” Vaezi said. “Given the significance of the JCPOA, they wish for the situation to develop in a way to gain Iran’s approval. But these efforts do not mean that there will be negotiations between Iran and the US.”

Asked about the recent remarks by Iraqi officials on sending delegations to US and Iran to help ease tension between the two sides, Vaezi said “Iran and Iraq have close ties. We won’t tell them not to send delegations. But we will listen to what they have to say and respond accordingly.”

He also maintained that the talks between Iranian and Omani foreign ministers held recently in Tehran had nothing to do with mediation between Iran and the US.

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