According to the Mehr reporter, while Reza Atari Azadkar, the 57 kg weightlifter of our country, had been planning for a successful participation in the national championship for a long time, he was overweight in one step of the final. Atari, who had to weigh in again to reach the final, could not reach the weight and thus lost the chance to participate in the Asian Championship. He was supposed to face Reza Momeni in the final to win the national championship, but this did not happen.
In this regard, Reza Atari in response to this incident told the website of the Wrestling Federation: I took good wrestling in the preliminary stage and reached the final by defeating all competitors, but it was very difficult for me to lose weight and I could not go for weightlifting today. I gained weight and felt that if I wanted to lose weight in any way, I would endanger my health.
“I am technically in good shape, but unfortunately my only weakness was the weight loss and physical exhaustion in the fights because of this, so I decided to try my luck at 61 kg,” he said. To. I hope I can succeed in the new weight.
According to the Mehr correspondent, one of the strange and unprecedented events in this period of the national champion freestyle wrestling competitions in Gorgan was the absence of some wrestlers in the weightlifting on the second day of the competitions. Of course, a total of 18 freestyle wrestlers did not weigh in during the national championships due to failure in the qualifying round or not reaching the top.
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