According to the Mehr correspondent, the Yashardoglu International Freestyle Wrestling Championship will be held in Istanbul, Turkey, from today until March 29. This tournament is the first ranked event to host famous contenders who need to earn points to participate in the 2022 World Cup.
According to the latest news from the contenders participating in this competition, we can mention the great world and Olympic champions and medalists such as Jordan Burroughs, Reza Kayalp, Taha Akgul and Sidakov, who are going to go on the mat in this competition. Naturally, the Turkish team, as the host, has the largest number of wrestlers with a maximum of 3 wrestlers in each weight.
Reza Kayalp will also enter the field for the first time after the Tokyo Olympics, but it is said that Taha Akgol is still recovering and resting for future events after winning a bronze medal at the 2021 World Championships in Oslo. Meanwhile, Turkish Olympic wrestler Suleyman Atli (61 kg) will compete in freestyle wrestling and Soner Demirtas (74 kg) will try his luck in this competition. Ramadan Sari, the European under-23 champion, will also compete in the 79 kg weight category.
Kazakhstan will also travel to Turkey with a large team with at least two wrestlers in each weight class. Surely all eyes are on Adlan Askarov, the former under-23 world champion and Asian champion who went from 61kg to 65kg in the Olympics.
On the other hand, the Russian Wrestling Federation will consider this cup as a test competition for the European Championship.
Finally, we should mention the Olympic and world champion Jordan Burroughs from the United States, who is going to return to the wrestling fields for the first time after setting the record of the sixth world championship from the Turkish International Cup. Of course, it is said that he intends to compete in the 79 kg weight class to gain ranking points.
According to the Mehr correspondent, our selected freestyle wrestling team also includes Seyed Ali Azimi in 57 kg, Mohammad Baqer Yakhkashi and Saeed Anvari in 61 kg, Morteza Ghiyasi and Rahman Rahimpour in 65 kg, Amir Mohammad Yazdani and Ali Akbar Fazli in 70 kg. Mohammad Sadegh Firoozpour (74 kg), Ali Savadkoohi (79 kg), Mojtaba Asghari and Ali Mansouri (86 kg), Ahmad Bazri (92 kg) and Mohammad Hossein Mohammadian (97 kg) will travel to Turkey to participate in the Yashar Dogu Cup.