One Gold and Two Bronze Chances for Freestyle Wrestling Hopefuls

On the first day of the World Freestyle Wrestling Hopefuls Championship, Rangraz's students created chances to win one gold and two bronze medals.

According to "Verzeh Se", the under-23 world championship wrestling competitions were held this morning in five weights of 60, 67, 72, 82 and 97 kg in Las Vegas, USA.

At the end of the semi-final competitions of the first five weights, Iran has one finalist and two Frenchmen also qualified for the ranking meeting.

In the weight of 60 kg, Mohammad Ashiri was defeated by Skripchak from Poland in the first round with a result of 8-6, and due to the defeat of this wrestler in the next stage against an opponent from Azerbaijan, Ashiri withdrew from the competition.

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

In the weight of 72 kg, Ahmadreza Mohsennejad lost to Kochkurov from Uzbekistan in the first round with a score of 3:1, and due to the defeat of this wrestler in the next round against an opponent from Azerbaijan, Mohsennejad was eliminated.

In the weight of 82 kg, Abolfazl Mehmadi defeated Mikladze from Georgia in the second round with a score of 4:1 after taking a break in the first round and went to the quarter finals. At 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. He will face Martik Petrosyan from Armenia to win the gold medal.

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 quarter finals. 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.