Irani

Good points!

Iran finally lost in a final, so they end up with 3 gold, 1 silver, 2 bronze, and first place

To answer your question, first some history. Iran has always had a tradition of Freestyle wrestling, Greco Roman wrestling is actually called "foreign wrestling" in Persian. I remember when Iran got it's first gold in Greco Roman by a street vendor in the late 1960's, early 1970s when I lived here, how shocked everyone was. Fast forward to 1983 when another Iranian named Mohammad Bana won a silver in the world championship, and a gold in the Asian championship. He later became the coach of the Iran team, and did a great job of building team. That increased interest in GR wrestling, the traditional regions that were strong in FS wrestling, did not show much interest in wrestling, but regions that historically did not participate in wrestling became very interested in wrestling. Places in the south such as Khuzestan and Fars now represent most of the GR wrestling talent from Iran, Thanks for the info about Khalili's Russian opponent. I guess we will soon find out. Youssefi vs Haines should be a good one

Freestyle U23 brackets are out Youssefi draws Haines from the US Khalili draws a Russian at 70 Other draws look ok

To be fair, most superstars like Zare and Yazdani are already medaling at seniors by the time they are 21-22, and do not need U23 to validate themselves. I am not convinced U23 medals are necessarily a predictable of future performance. I think U17 may be more relevant

Based on my estimate, with 3 golds, one bronze, one guy in the finals tomorrow and one more potential bronze, Iran has sealed the team championship

I exchanged texts with LJB He is still banned, but can log in, read PMs and read the forums. He wanted you to know that he reads your comments and appreciates your kind words. He also said every time he reads your comments about GR he goes crazy

Unfortunately, he was banned from there, and in all honesty, the way they responded to my comments after they banned him was the reason I left. One of their moderators was very quick to pull the trigger if anyone said anything bad about an Indiana wrestler or alumnus.

I hereby declare the Black family as the royal family of USA GR wrestling. Max and Otto, as far as I know, may become the only US brothers to medal at the same U23 world championship, and LJB leads the nation in number of times banned from forums Congratulations to the Black family.

Iran in good position to win first place in GR

Farrokhi and Hedayati get gold in the U23 GR Mohammadi in the finals, Shamsipour and Mohsennejad have each have a shot at bronze

Iran GR wrestlers off to a descent start at the U23. Two are in the semi Finals, and two are alive for repechage راهیابی فرخی و هدایتی به نیمه‌نهایی امیدهای جهان

Amouzad vs Ghassempour https://www.instagram.com/reel/DP6BuFSjDV1/?igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==

Movahed’s last match this was Movahed in 1972. He won this match 13-2 but tore his bicep muscle and was unable to go on. https://www.instagram.com/share/BAlwmXTFHS he would have had to face Dan Gable and given that Movahed was at the end of his career and failed to win gold in 1971 for the first time in 7 years, Movahed would have most likely lost

Iran u23 entries confirmed https://www.instagram.com/share/_fkQ_tGmy