According to the Mehr correspondent, the case of the Iranian national freestyle wrestling team in the 2021 World Championships in Norway was closed while winning 3 gold, 3 silver and 1 bronze medals and standing on the third platform of the world. Get a passing score at the Olympics.
The process of fundamental changes in our national freestyle wrestling team began immediately after the Tokyo Olympics with the dismissal of Gholamreza Mohammadi and his colleagues. Changes that have given the helm to the honest Pejman and his technical staff, so that perhaps achieving the desired results in world competitions will reduce the bitterness of the poor results in the Olympics.
Pejman Dorostkar replaced Gholamreza Mohammadi as the head coach of the Iranian national freestyle wrestling team in a situation where the wrestlers showed different reactions to this issue. Many of the veterans called this change a closed watermelon, the consequences of which will be determined in world competitions. However, the World Championships were accompanied by the brilliance of most of the freestyle wrestlers sent to Norway, and confirmed the first record of Pejman Dorostkar and his colleagues in the technical staff.
The golden generation of the ship shone brightly
One of the highlights of honest policy, which was associated with high risk, was his 100% trust in the youth and their inclusion in the senior national team to participate in the world. An action that finally paid off and showed that these young people can soon be proud of Iranian wrestling as a new generation of experienced and titled heroes in the coming years.
Young people like Alireza Sarlak, Rahman Amouzad, Amir Mohammad Yazdani, Erfan Elahi and Mohammad Nakhodi who have honestly shown that they have a lot to say in the coming years and can respond to the trust of the technical staff by winning medals. Sarlak wrestled with great motivation and courage, and in the final he fought until the last moment and did not back down. Amir Mohammad Yazdani was also captured by the Russian opponent in the final, but this field can be a good experience for him at the age of 21. Mohammad Nakhodi, along with the world youth gold that he recently won, was able to win the adult silver medal at the age of 20. He fought very well, but in the final he defeated his veteran opponent and wrestler named Jordan Burroughs and knocked on the door. 19-year-old Erfan Elahi also wrestled very boldly and showed that the future belongs to him and other young people of his age.
Acceptance record of experienced medalists
The World Championships in Norway was also an interesting and proud event for the Iranian wrestling and an opportunity for Hassan Yazdani to take revenge on the American David Taylor, who was defeated three times. In Norway, Hassan Yazdani avenged the defeat of the Tokyo Olympics on Taylor with exemplary authority and showed that if he went to the field with his own tactics and plan, there would be no opponent in front of him. Kamran Ghasempour, in his first world championship in the adult category, was finally able to get out from under the heavy shadow of Hassan Yazdani and reach the world championship with authority in a higher weight. On the other side of the field, Amir Hossein Zare in the heavyweight division was able to win another gold medal alongside his Tokyo Olympic bronze medal by winning the world championship gold medal, so that he could draw the line for his rivals as the young heavyweight contender in the world. But despite winning a bronze medal in the Norwegian World Cup, Mojtaba Glig was not so happy and energetic as he could have been a finalist, but lost to his experienced American opponent in the final seconds of the semi-final. Of course, if this had not happened to him, Gleej could have tested his chances of winning Iran’s fourth gold medal in the world, but fate had left him a bronze medal.
Giving ground to young coaches
Of course, the discussion of youthfulness in the composition of the national freestyle wrestling team with an average age of 22 years did not only lead to wrestlers, and honestly took another risk by transferring the young coaches of the basic teams to the technical staff of the senior team. Dorostkar in the Norwegian world preferred to benefit from four other young coaches such as Ehsan Amini, Behnam Ehsanpour, Mostafa Aghajani and Abazar Eslami, along with the experienced and well-known Mustafa Mir Emadian. A decision that responded like the youthfulness of his team and met with success in the world championships.
Pejman’s responsibility became more difficult
Iran’s freestyle wrestling won a gold, a silver, two bronze and a third world title in the previous round of the 2019 World Championships in Kazakhstan under the leadership of Gholamreza Mohammadi, but naturally the students repeated the third title by winning 3 gold, 3 silver and one bronze. Pejman Dorostkar had more sweets and was considered a good start for the Iranian wrestling route to the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Undoubtedly, with the end of the 2021 World Championships in Norway, the work of the freestyle wrestling team with honest coaching and its colleagues has just begun, and this team must soon prepare itself for the upcoming Asian Games and important arenas.
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