The 26-year-old freestyle wrestler Hassan Rahimi won the second ranking spot of the 57-kilogram weight class, standing behind Vladimir Khinchegashvili from Georgia.
Russian freestyle wrestler Viktor Lebedev, Jong Hak-jin from North Korea, Russian sportsman Ismail Musukaev and Mongolia’s Bekhbayar Erdenebat landed in the third to the sixth places.
Rahimi subdued Venezuelan, Belarusian, American, North Korean and Russian rivals (4-3, 7-0, 3-0, 5-3 and 5-1 respectively) to reach the final of the 12th edition of the World Wrestling Championships in Las Vegas on September 13, 2015 though he conceded a 4-5 defeat against Georgian sportsman Vladimer Khinchegashvili to stand on the silver podium.
Also in 65-kilogram weight group, Iran’s Meysam Nasiri was placed in the third spot on the ranking list after Frank Chamizo Marquez of Italy and Russia’s Soslan Ramonov who ranked first and second, respectively.
Nasiri snatched a gold medal at the 2016 Asian Wrestling Championships in Thailand after downing Nurlan Bekzhanov of Kazakhstan in the final round. He had executed a 10-0 technical fall over the Thai wrestler and breezed past the Uzbek rival 12-2 in the early stages before overcoming Batmagnai Batchuluun of Mongolia with technical fall 13-2 and defeating Japan’s Masakazu Kamoi 11-0 on route to the finals.
Iran men's freestyle wrestlers ranked in the UWW May rankings:
No. 2 at 57 kg – Hassan Rahimi
No. 3 at 65 kg –Meysam Nasiri
No. 4 at 125 kg – Parviz Hadi
No. 5 at 86 kg –Alireza Karimi
No. 6 at 126 kg – Komeil Ghasemi
No. 7 at 61 kg – Behnam Ehsanpour
No. 7 at 65 kg – Seyed Ahmad Mohammadi
No. 8 at 86 kg –Ehsan Lashgari
No. 9 at 74 kg – Hassan Yazdani
No. 9 at 97 kg – Reza Yazdani
No. 11 at 65 kg –Reza Atri
No. 15 at 74 kg – Mostafa Hosseinkhani
No. 17 at 61 kg – Mehran Nasiri
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