Hassan Yazdani in the Toughest Weight Class at World Championships!

A U.S. wrestling specialist site named the 97 kg category as a star-studded and certainly tough weight at the World Championships.

According to ambassador Arjan; According to Ambassador Arjan, in a new report, the American website Flowrestling examined the conditions of the 97 kg freestyle wrestling in the 2026 World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan, and introduced this weight as one of the most attractive and star-studded competitions of this period; Where the American Kyle Snyder has to compete with 3 other Olympic champions, Abdol Rashid Saadaleyev, Ahmed Tajuddinov and Hassan Yazdani, to defend his title.

Referring to the presence of 4 Olympic champions and several world champions in this weight, this report emphasizes that the competition to win the gold medal is not limited to big names only, and wrestlers such as Arash Yoshida from Japan, Givi Macharashvili from Georgia, Magomedkhan Magomedov from the Republic of Azerbaijan and Rizabek Aitmokhan from Kazakhstan can also change the equations of this weight.

This American website also mentioned Hassan Yazdani's weight change and wrote: Iran's representative Hassan Yazdani is one of the prominent figures of this weight class, with a history of winning the 2016 Rio Olympics and winning 3 world gold medals. Yazdani's presence in the 97 kg weight, after years of competing in the 86 kg weight, is one of the important topics of this tournament, and it should be seen how he will perform in the new weight.

Abdul Rashid Saadaleyev, the Russian star of freestyle wrestling and the holder of 2 Olympic gold medals, is considered one of the most important contenders. Saadaleyev won the gold medal at the 2016 Rio Olympics in the weight of 86 kg and at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics in the weight of 97 kg and has 6 world championship titles in his career.

Ahmed Tajuddinov, representative of Bahrain, is another main contender for this weight. He reached the finals in the 2023 World Championships by defeating Snyder and then won the world championship title. Tajeddinov defeated Snyder again at the Paris Olympics and won the Olympic gold medal.

In another part of its report, the Flowrestling site mentioned Arash Yoshida from Japan, who won the bronze medal at the 2025 World Championships and defeated Snyder at the 2026 Zagreb Open. With these results, Yoshida has shown that he has the ability to compete with adults weighing 97 kg.