According to Mehr news agency, the preliminary matches of the second five weights of the World Youth Freestyle Wrestling Championships were held today (Tuesday) in the city of Sofia, Bulgaria. At the end, Armin Habibzadeh won at 61 kg, Amir Hossein Firozpour at 92 kg and Amirreza Masoumi at 125 kg. kg reached the final and Aref Ranjbari went to the losers group in the weight of 86 kg.
In the weight of 61 kg, after taking a break in the first round, Armin Habibzadeh defeated Mikita Abramov from Ukraine in the second round with a score of 11:0 and went to the quarter final stage. At this stage, he beat Nicholas Bouzakis from America with a score of 13-11 in a close match and went to the semi-finals. At this stage, Habibzadeh defeated Hamzat Arsamerzoev from France with a score of 3:0 and qualified for the finals. In this match, he will face Yuto Nishiuchi from Japan.
In the weight of 74 kg, after taking a break in the first round, in the second round, Irfan Elahi passed Alexander Facundo from America with a score of 5:4 and made it to the quarter final stage. In this stage, he was defeated by Sagar Jaglan from India with a score of 10:5, and due to the defeat of this Indian opponent against the Japanese opponent in the semi-final stage, the representative of our country withdrew from the competition.
At the weight of 86 kg, Aref Ranjbari faced a draw in the first round. In the second round, he defeated Julien Ivanov from Bulgaria with a score of 11 to 0 and made it to the quarter final stage. In this stage, he lost to Rahim Magmadov, the runner-up of last year, from France with a score of 10 to 0. His opponent went to the losers group for the final match. In this group, Ranjbari will have to face Angelos Koklaris from Greece, and if he wins against this opponent, he will go to the classification match to face Sabuhi Amirarslanov from Azerbaijan.
In the weight of 92 kg, Amirhossein Firozpour defeated Satoshi Miura from Japan in the second round with a score of 10:0 after resting in the first round. In the next round and in the quarter-final stage, he defeated Christian Angial from Hungary with a score of 10-0 and went to the semi-finals. In this stage, Firozpur won against Adlan Viskhanov from France with a score of 10-0 and went to the finals. The representative of our country will face Andrew Margishvili from Georgia to win the gold medal.
In the weight of 125 kg, after resting in the first round, Amirreza Masoumi defeated Merab Suleimanashvili from Georgia in the next round with a score of 14:4 and made it to the semi-finals. At this stage, Masoumi defeated Nicholas Feldman from America with a score of 11:1 and qualified for the finals. In this meeting, he is going from India with Mahendra Gaikwad.
The classification and final competitions of the above weights will be held from 19:30 tomorrow (Wednesday).