Mehmadi is Iran's only finalist in the 5-weight wrestling category under the age of 23 in the world

Abolfazl Mehmadi is Iran's only finalist in the first five weights of under 23-year-old wrestlers in the world.

According to Ambassador Arjan, on the first day of the 2026 World Under-23 Championship in Las Vegas, Abolfazl Mehmadi became a finalist in 82 kg, but Mohammad Kamali in 67 kg and Mohammad Hadi Saidi in 97 kg went to the classification meeting.

Also, Mohammad Ashiri in 60 kg and Ahmadreza Mohsennejad were eliminated from the competition round.

The results of the three semi-final matches are as follows:

In the weight of 67 kg, Mohammad Kamali defeated Bustamante from Chile in the first round with a score of 9:0. In the next stage, he won against Manev from Bulgaria with a score of 9-0 and went to the quarter finals. In this stage, he passed the barrier of Arslanbek Salimov from Poland with a score of 8-0 and reached the semi-finals. In this stage, Kamali lost to Zakrif from Russia with a score of 13:2 and made it to the ranking match.

In the weight of 82 kg, after a break in the first round, Abolfazl Mehmadi defeated Mikladze from Georgia with a score of 4:1 in the second round and made his way to the quarter finals. In this stage, Mehmedi defeated Mihael Lukacs from Croatia with a score of 9-0 and reached the semi-finals. In this stage, he won against Arapkhanov from Russia with a score of 5-0 and was named the first finalist of the national wrestling team.

But in the weight of 97 kg, Mohammad Hadi Saidi defeated Zambrano from Ecuador in the first round with a score of 8:0. In the second round, he beat Chatsaturov from Greece with a score of 6-1 and reached the quarterfinals. Saidi defeated Wojciech Ivanovski from Poland with a result of 5:3 and went to the semi-final match. In this stage, he lost against Ihor Yakushenko from Ukraine with a score of 4:1 and made it to the ranking match.