Iranian Wrestlers

Iran Greco-Roman Wrestling runner-up at Junior World

TEHRAN, Aug. 22 (MNA) – Iran Greco-Roman wrestling team became runner-up at the Junior World Championships in Ufa, Russia.

2021 World Junior C’ships:

Iran freestyle wrestlers win 2 gold, 1 bronze

TEHRAN, Aug. 18 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle wrestlers managed to win two gold and one bronze medal in the 2021 edition of the World Junior Championships underway in Russia.

Tokyo Olympics:

Hassan Yazdani settles for silver

TEHRAN, Aug. 05 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle wrestler Hassan Yazdani received the silver medal of the men’s 86kg category at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Geraei wins Iran's 2nd gold in Tokyo Olympics

TEHRAN, Aug. 04 (MNA) – Greco-Roman wrestler Mohammadreza Geraei won the gold medal of men's 67kg category at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics on Wednesday.

Iran Greco-Roman team finishes 3rd in Turkish tournament

TEHRAN, Jun. 20 (MNA) – Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers won seven medals at the 2021 Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan in Istanbul, Tukey, June 18-20, and finished third.

Iran junior wrestlers win 5 gold medals at Turkey event

TEHRAN, May 30 (MNA) – Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers snatched five gold and a bronze medal in the 2021 edition of Champions event in Turkey’s Istanbul.

Iran wins Asian freestyle wrestling title

TEHRAN, Apr. 19 (MNA) – The freestyle team of Iran claimed the title of the Asian Wrestling Championships in Kazakhstan’s Almaty.

Asian Olympic Qualifiers:

Iran freestylers win two gold, one silver

TEHRAN, Apr. 12 (MNA) – Iran’s freestyle wrestlers collected two gold and one silver medal at the Asian Olympic Qualifiers.

Iran wrestling teams to participate in Bulgarian event

TEHRAN, Apr. 03 (MNA) – Iran will dispatch freestyle and Greco-Roman teams to an international event in Bulgaria dubbed ‘Dan Kolov - Nikola Petrov’.

Alireza Karimi wins silver at Matteo Pellicone

TEHRAN, Mar. 07 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle wrestler Alireza Karimi won a silver medal at Matteo Pellicone in Italy’s Rome.

Iranian wrestlers snatch 4 medals from Ukrainian tourn.

TEHRAN, Feb. 28 (MNA) – Iranian wrestlers managed to win four medals at the XXIV Outstanding Ukrainian Wrestlers and Coaches Memorial in Kiev.

Iranian wrestler reaches semi-finals at Individual World Cup

TEHRAN, Dec. 16 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle wrestler Rahman Amouzad Khalili advanced to the semi-finals of the 2020 Individual World Cup, which is underway in Belgrade, Serbia.

Iranian, Serbian wrestling federations sign MoU

TEHRAN, Oct. 14 (MNA) – Iranian Wrestling Federation signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Serbian Wrestling Federation on Tuesday.

Briefing on Iran's daily developments

TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) – The following are Iran’s developments in the past 24 hours.

Wrestler Nouri discharged from hospital after beating COVID19

TEHRAN, Jul. 13 (MNA) – Greco Roman wrestler Hossein Nouri has been discharged from Masih Daneshvari Hospital after gaining partial recovery from the COVID-19.

Iran's Yazdani wins UWW's Fantasy Wrestling Tournament

TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) – Gaining 53 percent of the 164,000 fans' votes of the UWW’s Freestyle Fantasy Wrestling Tournament, Iranian wrestler Hassan Yazdani finished the event beating his Azerbaijani rival Haji Aliyev.

Wrestler Alireza Karimi undergoes successful knee surgery

TEHRAN, Apr. 19 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle wrestler who was suffering a torn-ACL injury undergone a successful surgery this morning in a hospital in Tehran.

Alireza Karimi continues individual training following gradual recovery

TEHRAN, Mar. 09 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle wrestling star Alireza Karimi who injured some three months ago is now continuing his individual training as he hopes to secure his berth to the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

Iran retains Asian freestyle wrestling title

TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle team gained the title of the 2020 Asian Wrestling Championships with a total of eight medals and 168 points.

Iran freestyle wrestlers grab four medals in Asian C’ships

TEHRAN, Feb. 22 (MNA) – Iranian wrestlers grabbed one gold, one silver and two bronze medals on the first day of the 33rd Asian Wrestling Championships.

Mohammadian bulldozes all rivals, incl. Olympic champion, to win Matteo Pellicone

TEHRAN, Jan. 18 (MNA) – Iran’s freestyle wrestler of 97kg category Mohammadhossein Mohammadian gained commanding victories against all his rivals on Friday to win the gold medal of the Matteo Pellicone in Italy.

Four Iranian freestyle wrestlers to compete for Olympics’ ticket in Italy

TEHRAN, Jan. 14 (MNA) – Iran’s freestyle wrestling team will depart Tehran for Rome on Wednesday to participate in Matteo Pellicone competition.

Iran’s Alireza karimi sidelined for three months due to knee ligament injury

TEHRAN, Dec. 28 (MNA) – 2019 World silver medalist, Alireza Karimi, has suffered a knee ligament injury which may affect his presence in the upcoming Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

Iran’s Goleij selected as best U23 freestyle wrestler of 2019

TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (MNA) – Mojtaba Goleij of Iran has been selected by the United World Wrestling as the best U23 freestyle wrestler in the world in 2019.

Two medals for Iran at Alans wrestling tournament

TEHRAN, Dec. 09 (MNA) – Iranian freestyle wrestlers snatched two medals in the 2019 edition of Alans International Tournament in Russia.

Iran to participate in Alrosa cup with two wrestlers

TEHRAN, Nov. 27 (MNA) – Two freestyle wrestlers will represent Iran in the 2019 edition of Grand Prix Moscow Alrosa in Russia.

Iranian wrestlers bags 1 gold, 1 bronze in U23 World C’ships

TEHRAN, Oct. 30 (MNA) – Iran’s freestyle team gained one gold and one bronze medal on Tuesday night in 2019 edition of the U23 World Wrestling Championships in Hungary.