Iranian Wrestlers

Iran’s Geraei, Zare named best wrestlers of 2021

TEHRAN, Dec. 08 (MNA) – The two Iranian wrestlers Mohammad Reza Geraei and Amir Zare have been named United World Wrestling’s Breakthrough Performance of the Year award winners, according to UWW.

Iran freestyle runner-up at World Military Wrestling C'ship

TEHRAN, Nov. 23 (MNA) – Iran's freestyle wrestling team won 4 gold, 4 silver, and two bronze medals and gained 210 points to finish runner-up in the 35th World Military Wrestling Championship.

Iran freestyle team 2nd in 2021 U23 World Wrestling C'ships

TEHRAN, Nov. 08 (MNA) – Russia freestyle team outplaced Iran to win the title of the 2021 U23 World Wrestling Championships.

Leader praises Iran Greco-Roman wrestling team for victories

TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) – Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei praised the Iranian Greco-Roman wrestling national team for gaining second place in the 2021 World Wrestling Championship.

Raeisi congrats Iranian wrestlers on victories in 2021 WWC

TEHRAN, Oct. 11 (MNA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi in a message congratulated the Greco-Roman wrestling team athletes for winning the 2nd best world status at 2021 Oslo World Wrestling Championship.

Headlines of Iran's Persian dailies on October 10

TEHRAN, Oct. 10 (MNA) – Mehr News Agency takes a look at the headlines of Iran’s Persian-language dailies on Sunday, October 10.

Iran Greco-Roman wrestlers win bronze medals in World C'ships

TEHRAN, Oct. 09 (MNA) –Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers won two bronze medals at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships on Friday.

Ghasempour wins Iran’s 3rd gold at World Wrestling C'ships

TEHRAN, Oct. 04 (MNA) – Iran freestyle wrestlers Kamran Ghasempour won Iran’s third gold medal in the 2021 World Wrestling Championships.

Raeisi felicitates Iran wrestlers on winning gold in WWC

TEHRAN, Oct. 04 (MNA) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raeisi congratulated Hassan Yazdani and Amir Hossein Zare on winning the gold medal at the World Freestyle Wrestling Championships (WWC) in Norway.

4 Iranians advance to semis of world wrestling c'ships

TEHRAN, Oct. 03 (MNA) – On the second day of the 2021 World Wrestling Championships underway in Norway, four Iranian free-style wrestlers advanced to the semifinals of the competitions.

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.