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- Andrew Binner
- Wrestling is in the Geraei family's blood. Geraei grew up in the central Iranian city of Shiraz as one of three siblings, two of whom would become accomplished Greco-Roman wrestlers.
- Overcoming an ill-timed injury to win Olympic gold. Winning an Olympic gold medal in a combat sport is difficult enough with full fitness and perfect preparation.
- Finding resourceful solutions during Covid. The Covid-19 pandemic disrupted the Olympic preparations of athletes around the world, but few countries were hit as hard as Iran.
- Continuing Iran's fine wrestling legacy. Iran has won 24 gold medals in the modern Olympic Games. Almost half of them (11) have been won in wrestling, and as such Geraei joins an exclusive group of particularly-revered athletes in the Asian nation.
Jun 16, 2021 · TEHRAN, Iran (June 17) --- Iran finished the '16 Olympic Games with five medals (one gold, one silver and one bronze in freestyle and two bronze in Greco-Roman). From the five Rio Olympic medal winners, superstar Hassan YAZDANI (IRI) is the only returning Olympic representative.
5 min By Andrew Binner. Hassan Aliazam YAZDANICHARATI Wrestling. Freestyle wrestling is Iran’s national sport, so when Hassan Yazdani pinned down the 74kg gold medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, he became an instant national hero.
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Wrestling is the first sport in Iran and Iranians have the highest Olympic medal for wrestling. [6] in Iran two notable styles are for wrestling: Koshti Pahlavani , literally "heroic wrestling" (practiced throughout Iran)
May 16, 2023 · Sports Iran. Everything for wrestling: Sarina Salehi's Olympic dream. Jens Krepela. 05/16/2023. Sarina Salehi has high goals. As a girl in Iran, Olympic wrestling was forbidden, so she fled with...
66 kg. Alireza Dabir ( Persian: علیرضا دبیر, born September 16, 1977) is the President of Islamic Republic of Iran Wrestling Federation from July 2019. He is an Iranian champion freestyle wrestler. Dabir won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, [1] as well as the World Championship in 1998. He was a runner-up in 1999 ...
2 min By Ken Browne. (2021 Getty Images) Olympic champion Mohammadreza Geraei will fight for his maiden Greco-Roman wrestling World title after an incredible day at the 2021 World Championships in Oslo on Saturday (9 October).
