According to Mehr news agency, the representatives of our country took part in the preliminary rounds of the 61, 65 and 97 kg weights of the World Freestyle Wrestling Championship, which resulted in the advancement of two wrestlers to the quarter-final stage and one of the national team to the semi-final stage.
At a weight of 61 kg In the first round, Reza Atari defeated Basir Ali Lee from Macedonia with a score of 11:1. In the next round, he defeated Islam Bazarganov from Azerbaijan with a score of 4-0 and reached the quarter-finals. At this stage, he wrestles with Georgi Vanglov from Bulgaria.
At a weight of 65 kg Rahman Amouzad Khalili defeated Joon Sook Yun from South Korea in the first round with a score of 8:1. In the next round, he defeated Ismail Muzokayev, the world bronze medalist from Hungary, with a score of 6-0 and went to the quarter finals. In this stage, he faced Adil Uspanov from Kazakhstan and won 13-2 and went to the semi-finals.
At a weight of 97 kg After taking a break in the first round, Mohammad Hossein Mohammadian defeated Samuel Scherer from Switzerland with a score of 10:0 in the second round and qualified for the quarter finals. At this stage, he is fighting Maghamed Zakharyev from Ukraine.