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Iranian wrestlers claim 3 silver medals at Russia’s Kutuzov tournament

siavash — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 07:50:13 +0000

Iranian wrestlers claim 3 silver medals at Russia’s Kutuzov tournament

TEHRAN (Iran News) Omid Arami, Meisam Delkhani, and Mohammad Hadi Seydi each earned silver medals in the 60 kg, 63 kg, and 97 kg weight categories, respectively.

The tournament had kicked off in the Russian city on Friday.

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Yazdani Eyeing ‘Nothing but Gold’ at World Wrestling Championship

reporter 1222 — Mon, 19 Oct 2020 06:32:54 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian freestyle wrestling sensation Hassan Yazdani said his main objective is “nothing but to win the gold medal” at the upcoming World Wrestling Championship.

The world championship is to kick off in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, on December 12.

Yazdani, 25, a gold medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympics, last appeared in an international competition in September 2019, where he claimed a second world 86kg gold in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.

A knee surgery and then the coronavirus pandemic – which has seen the majority of global sporting events still being halted since February – sidelined the Iranian for nearly 10 months before he returned to competitive wrestling in early October – representing Bazar-e Bozorg at Iran Premier Wrestling League.

“The league was a major boost for all Iranian wrestlers, both financially and fitness wise, as I tested my own vigor. A wrestling bout could put you some 20 days ahead [of your schedule],” said the four time world gold medalist.

Yazdani, who is back in training with at national team, added, “Wrestling competitions were suspended for seven months due to the coronavirus and we all had to train individually. Fortunately, I’m in good conditions and hope to reach full fitness until the world championship.”

Hailing the Iranian federation’s efforts in providing all hygiene requirements at the national team training camp, Yazadani said, “We observe all health protocols during training and all athletes are forbidden from leaving the camp.”

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Iranian Wrestlers Grab Medals at Asian Championships

reporter 1222 — Wed, 19 Feb 2020 07:37:20 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Four Greco-Roman wrestlers from Iran claimed medals in Day One of the Asian Wrestling Championships on Tuesday.

Pouya Nasserpour defeated Jasurbek Ortikboef from Uzbekistan 8-0 in the 55kg weight category and won a gold medal.

Meysam Dalkhani was defeated against Yernur Fidakhmetov from Kazakhstan 2-0 in the 63kg bronze medal match.

In the 77kg, Pejman Poshtam lost to Tamerlan Shadukayev from Kazakhstan 10-1 in the final and grabbed a silver.

Amin Mirzadeh earned a 9-0 win over Korean Minseok Kim in the 130kg final and seized Iran’s second gold.

The governing body of the sport, the United World Wrestling, has announced that this edition will be considered to determine rankings for the 2020 Olympic Games.

Iran has sent 10 wrestlers to the competition.

The event has a total of 30 weight classes, 10 each in Freestyle Men, Women, and Greco Roman.

Asian Wrestling Championships are being held in New Delhi, India from February 18 to 23.

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Larijani lauds women wrestlers winning world title

reporter 1222 — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 07:59:45 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani commended the Iranian women wrestlers team for claiming the world title for the first time.

Larijani congratulated the team of women wrestlers and the Iranian nation on this victory, hoping that such achievements would continue in the future.

Iranian women’s wrestler team claimed the title of the 2019 world championships on Monday, gaining one gold, one silver and one bronze medal, and a total of 93 points.

This is the first time that Iran claims the title of the event. The Kyrgyz Republic and Kazakhstan ranked next with 89 and 63 points respectively.

The event was held in the Kazakh capital of Nur-Sultan under the official name of ‘Belt Wrestling World Championships’ where wrestlers competed in two disciplines of alysh and Kazakh Kuresi from Dec. 20 to 23.

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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 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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Iran runner-up at Freestyle World Cup

reporter 1222 — Sun, 17 Mar 2019 11:30:02 +0000

Iran, which participated in the event with its U23 team, conceded a 9-1 loss to the host and finished the event as vice-champion.

Here are results of the final match between Iran and Russia, according to the United World Wrestling website:

57kg: Aryian TIUTRIN (RUS) defeats Alireza SARLAK (IRI), 11-2

61kg: Ramazan FERZALIEV (RUS) df. Iman Mokhtar SADEGHIKOUKANDEH (IRI), 8-2

65kg: Viktor RASSADIN (RUS) df. Morteza Hassanali GHIASI CHEKA (IRI), 10-2

70kg: David BAEV (RUS) df. Meisam Abolfazl NASIRI (IRI), 6-1

74kg: Zaurbek SIDAKOV (RUS) df. Reza Alireza AFZALIPAEMAMI (IRI), 6-0

79kg: Magomed Eldarovitch RAMAZANOV (RUS) df. Mojtaba Yousefali ASGHARI OSMAVANDANI (IRI), 4-0

86kg: Dauren KURUGLIEV (RUS) df. Mersad Mohsen MARGHZARI (IRI), 10-0

92kg: Mohammadjavad Mohammadebrahim EBRAHIMIZIVLAEI (IRI) df. Magomed Guseynovitch KURBANOV (RUS), 2-1

97kg: Vladislav BAITCAEV (RUS) df. Ali Khalil SHABANIBENGAR (IRI), 2-1

125kg: Zelimkhan KHIZRIEV (RUS) df. Amin Hossein TAHERI (IRI), 10-0

The United States won Japan 6-4 in the bronze contest.

Earlier in the group stage, Iranian wrestlers hammered Mongolia 9-1 before defeating the reigning champion, the United States, 5-5 on classification points and then Georgia 8-2.

The event was held from March 16 to 17 at Yakutsk, Russia.

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Iran, China GR teams to hold joint training camp in Tehran

reporter 1222 — Wed, 16 Jan 2019 06:30:04 +0000

National Greco-Roman wrestling teams of Iran and China will start a joint training camp in Tehran this week.

The Chinese team, comprised of 15 wrestlers and coaches, will arrive in Tehran on Wednesday for doing preparation ahead of International Takhti Cup in Iran.

The two teams will conduct joint training sessions before departing to Khuzestan province for the international tournament.

The 39th edition of International Takhti Cup kicks off on January 24 in Andimeshk, southwest Khuzestan province.

Up to now, 8 international teams of China, Kazakhstan, Croatia, Serbia, Armenia, Palestine, Georgia, and Egypt have announced that they will participate in the two-day event.

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