According to Mehr reporter, Iran’s national freestyle wrestling team won half of the quotas for the Paris Olympics last year in the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade and must seek quotas in three weights in the selection competitions.
Rahman Cousin At 65 kg weight, Hassan Yazdani at 86 kg weight and Amir Hossein Zare at 125 kg weight are the three freestyle wrestlers of our country who have so far won the Olympic quota in these weights. participate so that they can be the main owner of the wrestler in the Paris Olympics.
However, the freestyle wrestling team must get a quota in the three weights of 57, 74 and 97kg, and the technical staff hopes that the work in these three weights will be completed in Asia and the freestyle wrestling quotas will be completed, but if the representatives of these weights cannot get a quota in Asia win, they have to test their last chance at the World Championship hosted by them.
What are the conditions in the weights that did not get quota?
In the weight of 57 kg, Ahmad Mohammadnejad Javan, Alireza Sarlak, Ebrahim Khawari and Ali Azimi were invited to the national team. In this weight, the first person in the national championships is the first choice to be sent to the Asian championships and Olympic qualifiers, although the technical staff has not yet made a final decision about the wrestler to be sent to these competitions.
In the weight of 74 kg, Younes Emami and Abazari were the two representatives of Iran in the World Union ranked competitions, where Younes Emami appeared unexpectedly in these competitions, and Abazari lost the result against the American wrestler in the final stage and won the silver medal. Yunus Emami was not invited to the national team training camp after being sent to Zagreb, Croatia. In fact, he was absent from the training camp due to a disciplinary case. After losing against Abazari in the Zagreb tournament, Emami withdrew from continuing his work, and although he brought a doctor’s certificate, It was not approved. Of course, after he was not invited to the national team camp, Yunus Emami had a meeting with Alireza Dabeir along with his coach and expressed his regret for withdrawing from the Zagreb tournament, and this made him attend the national team camp. Even though Yunus Emami appeared unexpectedly in Zagreb, he has the option of participating in the Asian selection tournament, which will be held in Bishkek in April 1403.
In the weight of 97 kg, the situation is more clear than in the other two weights, in this weight, Amir Ali Azarpira won and won the gold medal in the Zagreb competition, he also took the first place in the national championship. On the other side of the field is his opponent Kamran Qasimpour, who was absent from the country’s championship due to an injury, and after a year and a half of injury, he played in the tournament in Zagreb, where he faced for the second time Snyder The American lost and won the bronze medal.
After Kamran’s defeat, the people of wrestling believe that he should change his weight because his body shape does not fit the weight of 97 kg and Kamran is facing tough competitors in this weight, but Qasimpour did not pay attention to the opinions of any of the people of wrestling and in this weight He continues his training in the national team camp. Now, if Azarpira can get the Olympic quota in the continental competitions, he will be the runner-up of the national team for the Paris Games, but if he cannot reach the Olympic quota in this event, Kamran Qasimpour can test his luck in the world championships.