Tasnim Mahdi Aliyari from Iran won a bronze medal at the Greco-Roman competition of the World Wrestling Championship on Sunday.
Aliyari, who was scheduled to face Armenian Artur Aleksanyan, won the other 97kg bronze medal by forfeit.
It was Irans first medal in the Greco-Roman competition.
Serbian Mihail Kajala also won his first bronze world ...
MNA Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers Mohammadali Garaei at 77kg and Hossein Noori at 87kg have added two gold medals to Irans tally in the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia.
Mohammadali Garaei beat Akzhol Makhmudov from Kyrgyzstan in the final match of 77kg.
The Iranian wrestler defeated the Kyrgyz athlete, who is the former Asias champion ...
MNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani praised the performance of Iranian wrestlers who won titles of both freestyle and Greco-Roman at 2018 Cadet World Championships.
Appreciating wrestlers and coaches great efforts, Rouhani congratulated this victory to the Irans nation, young wrestlers and coaches and managers of the national wrestling ...
Press TV - The national Iranian cadet Greco-Roman wrestling team hasput in impressive displays of grappling skills atthe 2018 Cadet Wrestling World Championships in Croatia, and been crowned as the champion of theprestigious international sports event after more than two decades.
The young Iranian sportsmentallied 130 points to be awarded the ...
MNA The Iranian Junior Greco-Roman wrestlers have claimed the tile of 2018 Cadet Asian Championships in Uzbekistan with 4 gold medals, one silver and two bronzes.
The 2018 Cadet Asian Championships kicked off on Thursday, May 10, and wrapped up yesterday, May 11, in the capital city of Uzbekistan, Tashkent.
According to United World Wrestling ...
MNA Following UWWs decision to deny Ahvaz to host the 2018 Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling World Cup, Iran has officially opted out of the 2018 Freestyle World Cup in Iowa City, US.
The United World Wrestling (UWW) has agreed to Irans request for withdrawing from the 2018 Wrestling World Cup in US due to the UWW's decison to deny the southwestern Iranian ...
Press TV - Iranian freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestlers have exhibited remarkable grappling skills at the XXII Outstanding Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches Memorial, and earned five medals, two of which are gold ones, during theinternational sports event.
Iranian freestyler Kamran Qasempour snatched a gold medal after he overpowered Richard Perry ...
MNA Irans Greco-Roman team finished first in the Takhti Greco-Roman Cup with 12 medals in Mahshahr, Khuzestan province, January 25-26.
Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers have put out magnificent performances at the 38thedition of International Senior Greco-Roman Wrestling Tournament Takhti Cup, which was held in honor oflatelegendary Iranian freestyle ...
Press TV - The national Iranian cadet Greco-Roman wrestling team has finished as the overall vice champion of the 2017 Cadet World Championshipsin Greece.
On Wednesday evening, Mehran Seyed Jafar Saadatifard defeated Hungarian representative Istvan Takacs 2-0, and snatched a gold medal for Iran in the final bout of the 76-kilogram weight category ...
Press TV - Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler Hossein Niknejad has passed away after suffering a heart attack during a match at the National Veteran Wrestling Championship in the countrys northwestern city of Tabriz.
Niknejad, a former member of the Iran mens national Greco-Roman wrestling team, collapsed during a 69-kilogram matchat the indoor Shahid ...
IRNA According to the latest ranking of the United World Wrestling, by the end of July 31, an Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler is among the top three wrestlers in the world.
According to the ranking, Saeid Abdevali stood at the second place at 75kg.
Abdevali managed to grab the bronze medal of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.
The 2016 Summer Olympic ...
IRNA Iranian Greco-Roman junior wrestler Amin Kaviani Nejad snatched the third gold medal of Iran squad in World Championships 2017 which was held in Finland.
Kaviani Nejad in the weight category of 66 kg defeated Armenian rival and ranked first.
After being out to rest in the first round, he overpowered Finnish wrestler 4-0 in the second round....
Tasnim Iran claimed the title of the 2017 Asian Greco-Roman Wrestling Championship on Thursday.
The Iranian team won three gold medals and one bronze in the competition underway in New Delhi, India.
Ramin Taheri claimed a gold medal in the 80kg, beating South Korean Kim June-hyoung.
Mostafa Salehizadeh took the gold medal in the 98kg weight ...
MNA Irans senior Greco-Roman wrestling team defeated Turkey 7-1 on Friday and ranked third at the 2017 World Cup.
The Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers who had defeated Germany and Kazakhstan on Thursday, were defeated by Russians in their second encounter.
Russian beat Azerbaijan Republic and ranked the champion of this tournament.
The 2017 ...
IRNA The Greco-Roman World Cup 2017 competitions kicked off in Abadan, a city in the southwestern Iranian province of Khuzestan on Thursday.
The two-day world event is attended by eight premier Greco-Roman wrestling teams.
Iran, Russia, Kazakhstan and Germany are in the same group while another group consists of Turkey, Azerbaijan, Belarus and ...
TEHRAN, Sep. 14 (MNA) Three Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers have so far claimed three medals, including one gold, in the 2016 Cadet World Championships underway in Georgia.
The sportive event kicked off on Tuesday September 13 in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi where Iranian athletes snatched one gold and two silver medals.
Competing in 63kg ...
TEHRAN (Tasnim) Iran Wrestling Federation decided not to renew Mohammad Banas contract as head coach of Greco-Roman team.
Banas contract ran out at the end of 2016 Olympic Games.
Under guidance of Bana, Iran won just two bronze medals in the games.
Saeid Abdevali in the 75kg weight category and Ghasem Rezaei in 98kg claimed the bronze ...
RIO DE JANEIRO, Aug. 17 (MNA) Irans 98kg athlete Ghasem Rezaei who was a hope for gold medal ended up in Bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling competitions of Rio 2016 games.
Ghasem Rezaei who had an Olympics title as a gold medalist in 2012 London games had an off draw in first round. In second round he faced Luillys Prez from Venezuela who was an ...
In a shocking upsetfor the Islamic Republic of Irans contingent at the2016SummerOlympicsinRiode Janeiro, Brazil, Greco-Roman wrestler and medal hope Habibollah Akhlaghi has been eliminated at the high-status sporting event.
In the repchage round 2 on Monday evening, the 31-year-old Iranian sportsman lost to Germanys Denis Maksymilian Kudla (3-...