Americans had invited the Iranian freestylers at four junior weight categories of 55kg, 60kg, 74kg and 84kg as well as two senior weight categories of 74kg and 86kg to vie at freestyle wrestling dual meet between defending team world champion Iran and the United States.
Accordingly, Bimeh Razi team left Tehran for New York to represent Iran in the one-day sport event.
Bimeh Razi had previously won the second annual World Wrestling Clubs Cup held in Tehran in September 2015.
The Americans had said in their invitation that the event will be a great opportunity to line up the two wrestling powers Iran and America leading to a beautiful event for lovers of wrestling in the world to recall the ‘Wrestling Month’ in May of 2013 which helped to keep wrestling in the Olympics.
The names of the selected senior Iranian Freestyle athletes are as follow:
55kg: Kheirollah Ghahramani (Junior)
60kg: Peyman Biabani (Junior)
74kg: Ahmad Bazri (Junior)
84kg: Mojtaba Galij (Junior)
74kg: Peyman Yarahmadi (Senior)
86kg: Meysam Mostafajokar (Senior)
Coaches: Gholamreza Mohammadi, Mohammad Talaei and Akbar Dodangeh
Supervisor: Reza Layegh
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