Geraei lost to 2019 world bronze medal winner Mate Nemes of Serbia 5-4.
He defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Amantur Ismailov 9-0 in Round of 16 and beat Korean wrestler Ryu Han-su 5-1 in quarterfinals.
The 2020 Olympic gold medal winner posted an unusual technical fall over Joni Khetsuriani from Georgia in the semifinals.
Geraei made the unusual choice of challenging a call in which he scored the points, but it paid off by giving him even more than he expected for an 8-0 technical fall.
It was Iran's first medal in the competition.
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