Iran wrestling news

[Lucho]

3 hours ago, Truzzcat said:

Persian sports made a really cool post about the average age for the 4 power house nations at worlds, I did not realize how young Irans team is this year. Average age 24.0 Usa was 24.3 Japan was 23.6 Russia was 26.2.

Is that for freestyle? Apart from Ghasempour, Emami and Amir Mohammad Yazdani think most of them are still eligible for u23 worlds. It's kinda crazy to think about. In saying that though Japan and US both have young teams so it's not that much different.

[Lucho]

I think our greco team is also quite young too. Maybe Saravi and Mirzazadeh being the only guys not u23 eligible.

[Irani]

Habibi, Iran’s first Olympic gold medalist, 3 times world champion and UWW hall of famer, passed away.

https://www.khabarvarzeshi.com/news/517505/امامعلی-حبیبی-درگذشت

[Irani]

Beautiful 5 point throw

[Irani]

Based on my very unreliable calculations, Iran should win the GR championship.

Iran has one guy wrestling for gold, and one guy wrestling for bronze.  Azerbaijan has one guy trying to get into a bronze match.

[GrandOlm]

It's interesting to me how much volatility there has been in Greco Roman wrestling. 

If this tournament had existed in the 1920-40s, there would have been a lot of Swedish, Finnish, and German medalists. 

From the 50-80s Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland would have medaled a lot. 

Now these countries are either completely irrelevant or third rate at best. Iran and Azerbaijan have slotted in as the new stand outs. 

[Irani]

49 minutes ago, GrandOlm said:

It's interesting to me how much volatility there has been in Greco Roman wrestling. 

If this tournament had existed in the 1920-40s, there would have been a lot of Swedish, Finnish, and German medalists. 

From the 50-80s Bulgaria, Romania, and Poland would have medaled a lot. 

Now these countries are either completely irrelevant or third rate at best. Iran and Azerbaijan have slotted in as the new stand outs. 

 Very true

i still remember how shocked we were when Iran got the first gold world medalist in GR in the early 70s.

[D3 for LU]

6 hours ago, Irani said:

Habibi, Iran’s first Olympic gold medalist, 3 times world champion and UWW hall of famer, passed away.

https://www.khabarvarzeshi.com/news/517505/امامعلی-حبیبی-درگذشت

I'm sorry for your loss... big history and 1st Olympic champion in wrestling for country, yes indeed!

Representing Iran...
Olympic Games

Gold medal – first place    1956 Melbourne    67 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place    1959 Tehran    73 kg
Gold medal – first place    1961 Yokohama    73 kg
Gold medal – first place    1962 Toledo    78 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place    1958 Tokyo    67 kg

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Edited 3 hours ago by D3 for LU

[Irani]

1 hour ago, D3 for LU said:

I'm sorry for your loss... big history and 1st Olympic champion in wrestling for country, yes indeed!

Representing Iran...
Olympic Games

Gold medal – first place    1956 Melbourne    67 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place    1959 Tehran    73 kg
Gold medal – first place    1961 Yokohama    73 kg
Gold medal – first place    1962 Toledo    78 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place    1958 Tokyo    67 kg

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Thanks yoindoenyoirnkind words

he was one of my favorites 

[Irani]

Looks like Iran won the team championship 

I don’t think too many people will be happy with 1 gold 2 silvers and a bronze or two