The Kyrgyzstan’s Bayaman Erkinbayev belt wrestling (alysh) tournament will kick off on March 15 in Kyrgyzstan capital of Bishkek and will come to a close on March 18.
The names of the selected Iranian alysh practitioners to take part in the event are as follow:
55kg: Zahra Yazdani
60kg: Zahra Mahmoudi
65kg: Hanieh Ghodratipour
70kg: Samaneh Khojasteh
75kg: Zahra Majdi
+75kg: Asieh Shojaei
Head coach: Farasat Mobtadi
Alysh is a sport like wrestling and judo in which athletes wear a special dress with a wide belt like that worn by judo players; the sport has a 300-year-old history in Iran and it is the most popular one in the provinces of Mazandaran, Gilan, Khuzestan and Semnan.
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