According to Mehr News Agency, the preliminary matches of the first five weights of the under-23 freestyle wrestling competition (Amid) were held today (Friday) in the city of Ponte Vedra, Spain, where Amir Mohammad Yazdani in the weight of 70 kg and Amir Ali Azarpira in the weight of 97 kg made it to the finals. And Kian Mahmoudjanlou went to the losers group in the weight of 65 kg.
The results of our country’s wrestlers are as follows:
In the weight of 57 kg, young Ahmad Mohammadnejad passed the barrier of Manuel Khandzartsyan from Armenia in the first round with a score of 5:4. In the next round, he was defeated by Horst Lehr, the under-23 European champion from Germany, with the result of 9-4, and due to the defeat of this wrestler in the next round, the representative of our country withdrew from the competition.
In the weight of 65 kg, Kian Mahmoudjanlu lost to Hamze Alaja from Turkey in the first fight with the result of 7-8 and due to the presence of this wrestler in the final match, he went to the losers group. In this group, Mahmoud Janlud has to wrestle Seyed Islam Hosseini from Finland, and if he wins against this opponent, he will face Samuel Alvarez from Puerto Rico in the next round, and if he passes this opponent, he will go to the classification match to face Eric Aroshanian from Ukraine. to be placed
In the weight of 70 kg, after taking a break in the first round, Amir Mohammad Yazdani defeated the Asian champion Talgat Sirbaz from Kazakhstan with a score of 15:5 in the second round and reached the quarter final stage. In this stage, he passed the barrier of Kota Takahashi from Japan with a score of 17:7 and made it to the semi-final stage. In this match, Yazdani passed Yahya Thomas from America with a score of 4:2 and qualified for the finals. In this match, he will face Giorgi Elbakidze, the European under-23 champion from Georgia.
In the weight of 79 kg, Mohammad Nakhudi withdrew from the competition due to not reaching the legal weight.
In the weight of 97 kg, Amir Ali Azarpira defeated Vasil Sova from Ukraine in the first round with a score of 12:2 and made it to the quarter final stage. In this stage, he defeated Richard Vagh from Hungary with a score of 10:0 and made it to the semi-final stage. In this match, Azarpira passed the Ertugrul Agja dam from Germany with a score of 8-0 and went to the final match. In this match, he will face Tanner Sloan from America.
The classification and final competitions of the above weights will be held tomorrow night (Saturday) at 19:30.