jimbo

Wrestling is still alive in Iran after Olympic nightmare .
Iran national freestyle championship starts today in Sari, Mazandaran.

medalists of first Day:

60kg:
1- Bijan Changizifar (Qazvin)
2- Taghi Dadashi (Mazandaran A)
3- Mohsen Aghajani (Tehran)
3- Mojtaba Behnamnejad (Tavabe Tehran)

74kg:
1- Jafar Ghasemi (Mazandaran B)
2- Sadegh Goudarzi (Hamedan)
3- Hamid Mohammadnejad (Mazandaran A)
3- Abolfazl Behkar (Tavabe Tehran)

96kg:
1- Jafar Daliri (Kermanshah)
2- Mehdi Nouri (Ardabil)
3- Jafar Shams (Mazandaran B)
3- Yaser Ghorbani (Hormozgan)

bulgarian

Who is Jafar Gasemi?The other wrestlers are more or less known,but this i hear for first time!He won against Godarzi,so it mean that he is a good wrestler!

pinartist

have any noteworthy iranian wrestlers retired after olympics?

jimbo

i never seen him before , but his name is familiar for me ! he also beat Mohammadnejad before the final

no, at least I didnt hear it

jimbo

2nd day:

finalists

55 / Rahmatollah Hajizadeh (Markazi) - Hassan Rahimi (Tehran)
66 / Mohsen Jahanbakhshian (Tavabe Tehran) - Masoud Vahedi (Mazandaran)
84 / Mehdi Hajizadeh (Mazandaran) - Esmail Nejatian (Khorasan Razavi)
120 / Hadi Pouralijan (Mazandaran) - Hadi Gourkani (Zanjan)

olympian Abbas Dabbaghi lost to Hassan Rahimi !

Mehdi Hajizadeh beat Jamal Mirzaei and Fereydoon Ghanbari !

Mazandaran won team title again before the finals.

bulgarian

Yes,it is familiar name!This year asian champions for juniors are Amir Gasemi/120kg/ and Komei Gasemi/96/,Komei even won bronze at the last world junior.Is it possible the 3 wrestlers to be brothers?Jimbo,can you say how old is Jafar Ghasemi,it is interesting even the people from Iran do not know him!Most interesting for me is the victory against Godarzi,Mohamadnedzad came from 66kg and i do not think that he have any good chances at 74.Do you know if wrestled at 74 Iman Mohamadian,Majid Mohamadi and Saed Tavakol?It is obvious that Meisam Gokar and Bazri did not wrestle!
It is interesting to see again Vahedi and Hadzizadeh among the finalists!But i think that it will be more difficult for Hadzizadeh against Yazdany and Tatari!

arm-spin

did the 60kg olympic medallist compete?

quick_single

Why would they hold Nationals this soon after Olympics? I think that's silly.

jimbo

2nd day medalists:

55kg:
1- Hassan Rahimi (Tehran)
2- Rahmatollah Hajizadeh (Markazi)
3- Abbas Dabbaghi (Mazandaran A)
3- Farid Dejamkhooi (East Azerbayjan)

Final: Rahimi def. Hajizadeh 1-0,4-0

66kg:
1- Masoud Vahedi (Mazandaran A)
2- Mohsen Jahanbakhshian (Tavabe Tehran)
3- Mehdi Sohrabi (Qazvin)
3- Mehdi Hossein-Rezaei (Tehran)

Final: Vahedi def. Jahanbakhshian 3-0,1-0

84kg:
1- Esmaeil Nejatian (Khorasan Razavi)
2- Mehdi Hajizadeh (Mazandaran A)
3- Ehsan Lashgari (Qazvin)
3- Jamal Mirzaei (West Azerbayjan)

Final: Nejatian def. Hajizadeh 6-2,0-1,2-1
Hajizadeh wrestled very bad, he lost to himself ! his unknown opponent was not that good

120kg:
1- Hadi Pour-Alijan (Mazandaran A)
2- Hadi Gourkani (Zanjan)
3- Askari Hajinia (Mazandaran B)
3- Alireza Soleimani (Kermanshah)

Final: Pour-Alijan def. Gourkani 1-0,1-0

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Team ranking:

1- Mazandaran A - 60pts
2- Tehran - 32pts
3- Qazvin - 31pts
4- Mazandaran B - 31pts
5- Hamedan - 31pts
6- Khorasan Razavi - 29pts

jimbo

no, because his full name is Seyed Jafar Ghasemi, he look young , maybe around 20.

Mazandaran in Iran Champs = Russia in World Champs

they (Mohammadian, Tavakol, Mohammadi) are from Mazandaran, Hamid Mohammadnejad beat all of them in trials and he wrestled for Mazandaran ''A'' team. but i dont how they chosed their ''B'' team !

no, national team members (except Dabbaghi) didnt compete as usual

agreed !
but national championship is not very important in Iran, i think we have Freestyle league in next 4 month and they cant find the better time !