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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