According to the Mehr reporter, Alireza Sarlak was one of the youths of our national freestyle wrestling team in the world competitions, who was able to become a finalist while competing, and finally won a silver medal.
To reach the final of the 2021 World Cup in Norway, Sirlak first defeated Giuseppe Villarro of Ecuador 11-0 and then defeated Arian Tsiotrin of Belarus 7-6. In the semi-final, he defeated Suleiman Atli of Turkey 7-4 and advanced to the final. However, in the final, Sarlak faced a strong barrier named Thomas Gilman, the Olympic bronze and world silver medalist from the United States, and finally lost 5: 3 and won the silver medal.
In this regard, Alireza Sarlak, in response to his performance in the world competitions, stated in a television interview: “I am happy and I have a very good feeling that I won the world silver medal, although I believe I could have made the medal gold, but in the opposite wrestling The American Gilman kept slipping away from me, and despite my best efforts, I could not win.
Referring to the efforts of the technical staff and the trustees of the federation, he added: “Wrestling on the fight mat is an individual sport, but outside it is a team sport and we can not say that we have achieved this success alone.” In this way, many people tried for me, and I have to thank the team staff who worked hard for the success of all the children.
The world freestyle wrestling runner-up noted: “My physical condition was very good and I was at a very good level mentally and emotionally.” I also had a lot of motivation to succeed in this period of competitions. Anyway, we had an empathetic team where the kids were beating their hearts out for success and praying for each other’s success.
Referring to his future plans, Sarlak added: “The first field that I will participate in after the world championships is the league competitions, which will start in about two weeks.” In the league, I signed a good contract with Sahand team with the advice of Alireza Rezaei. Of course, I will not change my weight in the league and I will face my rivals in the first weight.
In the end, he continued: “From now on, I will redouble my efforts and I hope to be worthy to be able to wear the national team runner-up again in the continuation of the path and after the league, and to be proud again in important competitions such as the upcoming Olympics.” To.
According to the Mehr reporter, the freestyle wrestling competitions of the 2021 World Championships were held in Oslo, Norway from 10 to 13 October. In the end, the Iranian team was defeated by Hassan Yazdani (86 kg), Kamran Ghasempour (92 kg) and Amir Hossein Zare in 125 kg in gold, Alireza Sarlak in 57 kg, Amir Mohammad Yazdani in 65 kg and Mohammad Nakhodi in 79 kg won silver and Mojtaba Gleej in 97 kg. In the team ranking, the Iranian team came in third with 162 points after the Russian and American teams.
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