Jul 16, 2016, 9:19 AM

Wrestling roster released for Rio Olympics

Wrestling roster released for Rio Olympics

TEHRAN, Jul. 16 (MNA) – Technical council of national Iranian wrestling teams has announced the roster for participating in 2016 Rio Summer Olympic Games.

A meeting of the technical council of national Greco-Roman and Freestyle wrestling teams was held on Friday afternoon with attendance of Deputy Minister of Youth and Sport and head of National Team Support Committee Nasrollah Sajjadi as well as other members.

The meeting determined members of Iran’s wrestling squad for Rio Olympic extravaganza.

Selections were made according to results of national team qualifying competitions as well as wrestlers’ records and prior experience of participating in international arenas.

The names of the elected senior Iranian Freestyle athletes are as follow:

57kg: Hassan Rahimi

65kg: MEysam Nasiri

74kg: Hassan Yazdani

85kg: Alireza Karimi Machiani

97kg: Reza Yazdani (in case of recovery from injury before competitions) or Amir Mohammadi

125kg: Komeil Ghasemi

The names of the elected senior Iranian Greco-Roman athletes are as follow:

59kg: Hamid Sourian

66kg: Omid Norouzi

75kg: Saeid Abduwali

85kg: Habibollah Akhlaghi or Ramin Taheri

98kg: Ghasem Rezaei

130kg: Bashir Babajanzadeh

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