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Alireza Karimi knee surgery successful

reporter 1222 — Sun, 19 Apr 2020 12:46:03 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Alireza Karimi, the Iranian freestyle wrestler who was suffering a torn-ACL injury undergone a successful knee surgery this morning in a hospital in Tehran.

Dr. Sohrab Keyhani said that the knee surgery has gone excellent, hoping that Alireza Karimi could get back to the mat in the determined time.

“He had a complete torn ACL and performing surgery was a good decision,” he said. According to physicians, Karimi needs seven months to gain full recovery.

He suffered a knee injury in late December 2019 at the World Wrestling Clubs Cup held in Bojnurd, northeast Iran. Doctors had been using a non-aggressive PRP therapy combined with special training to treat his injury so that he could reach the 2020 Olympics. In early March, he announced his return to the mat and continuation of his training in his hometown Karaj.

However, as the 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been postponed for a year, the medical team of the wrestling federation was mulling over whether to perform surgery or not.

Karimi needs to win the required points in qualifying events to secure his ticket to Tokyo.

Iranian freestyle team has so far gained three out of six quotas for the Olympics. The qualifying events have been postponed for 2021.

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Iran crowned in 2020 Asian wrestling

reporter 1222 — Mon, 24 Feb 2020 04:53:18 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran was crowned the champion at the 2020 Asian Freestyle Wrestling Championships in New Delhi, India, collecting eight medals – including two golds.

Sunday’s triumph came after Iran had dominated the Greco-Roman contests, claiming the top spot with nine medals – five golds in 2020 Asian wrestling tournament.

Iran finished atop the freestyle standings with 168 points, followed by India (159pts), Kazakhstan (146pts) and Japan (140pts).

Mohammad-Javad Ebrahimi – representing Iran in the 92kg weight class – demolished Takuma Otsu of Japan 11-0 and notched up the country’s second gold of the freestyle contests.

Another Iran-Japan final earlier in the day had seen Ahmad Bazri concede a loss to Japanese Shutaro Yamada and take the silver.

Parviz Hadi – having suffered a semifinal defeat against Yusup Batirmurzaev of Kazakhstan – bounced back to beat Tajikistan’s Farkhod Anakulov 10-0 and took a 125kg bronze.

South Korean Nam Koung-jin snatched the other bronze of the class while Batirmurzaev went on to beat Khuderbulga Dorjkhand of Mongolia 10-0 for the gold.

Mostafa Hosseinkhani, meanwhile, beat Mongolian Sumiyabazar Zandanbud 5-0 for the 74kg joint-bronze – alongside Daichi Takatani of Japan.

Daniyar Kaisanov of Kazakhstan claimed the gold of the category with a 3-1 defeat of the host’s Jitender Jitender.

On the first day of the freestyle event, Iranians had bagged four medals.

Mojtaba Goleij beat the host’s Satywart Kadian 10-0 to claim the 97kg gold, while Amirhossein Ali-Hosseini settled for the 70kg silver after he fell to a 10-6 defeat against Ilyas Bekbulatov of Uzbekistan.

Ali Savadkouhi (79kg) and Amirhossein Maqsoudi (65kg) finished their campaigns with a couple of bronze medals after overcoming Kazakhstani wrestlers Galymzhan Usserbayev and Daulet Niyazbekov respectively.

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Iranian Women Grab Medals at 2019 Belt Wrestling

reporter 1222 — Mon, 23 Dec 2019 06:35:50 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Fatemeh Fattahi and Zahra Yazdani, two Iranian women wrestlers claimed two medals at the 2019 Belt Wrestling World Championships on Saturday.

One of the Iranian women Fattahi lost to Meerim Momunova from Kyrgyzstan in the final match of the 60kg at Belt Wrestling.

Yazdani also won a bronze medal at the 55kg weight class.

Iran has participated in the competition with six female wrestlers.

Belt Wrestling is a form of wrestling that is one of the oldest historically recorded sports. It involves contestants aiming to knock each other over by grappling with a belt.

The competitions are underway in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from December 20 to 23.

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