2013 World Cup

Greco Roman draw

Group A
Russia, Korea, Bulgaria, Belarus and Armenia

Group B
Turkey, Iran, Azerbaijan, Hungary and Kazakhstan

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famous wrestlers (World and Olympic medalists)

Russia
Bekkhan Mankiev, Islambek Albiev, Roman Vlasov and Aleksey Mishin

Belarus
Elbek Tazhiev, Aliaksandr Kikiniou and Mikhail Siamionau

Turkey
Riza Kayaalp, Selcuk Cebi and Cenk Ildem

Iran
Farshad Alizadeh and Bashir Babajanzadeh

Kazakhstan
Almat Kebispayev and Nurmakhan Tinaliyev

Azerbaijan
Saman Tahmasebi

Once again poor organisation by both the Iranians and Fila. And this - in times when IOC says wrestling isn't visible.
I heard any Iranian TV would stream the matches live. But I only heard. Less than 12 hours before the beginning, one can't find any information on Fila site, on Iranian federation site.... nowhere. So i don't think wrestling isn't visible only because being not telegenic.

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Originally Posted by akzent

Once again poor organisation by both the Iranians and Fila. And this - in times when IOC says wrestling isn't visible.
I heard any Iranian TV would stream the matches live. But I only heard. Less than 12 hours before the beginning, one can't find any information on Fila site, on Iranian federation site.... nowhere. So i don't think wrestling isn't visible only because being not telegenic.

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You are asking too much ;) IAWF website has some information (schedule, team's squads etc) but only in persian.

Iran Channel 3 (aka IRIB 3) and Varzesh Channel (aka IRIB Sport) will broadcast the tournament live. probably IRIB 3 for Iran's matches and IRIB Sport for the rest of the tournament.

probably? )))

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Originally Posted by akzent

probably? )))

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They will broadcast for sure :) I just don't know how they distribute the matches, IRIB Sport is NOT available for all cities in Iran so I guess they put all Iran matches on Channel3.

Themat.com has freestyle lineups listed. Relatively weak compared to last year. Potential rematch between Taghavi and Yonemitsu 66 is the one I want ot see. I'm disappointed to not see Asgarov there.

Some top competitors at 74- Khubetzy, Goudrazi, Aliyev/Hasaynov, and Burroughs. The other two US medallists looked pretty rough in their first tournament back (Varner just got tossed around by Michaelek) so if someone's gonna knock of JB this could be their opportunity.

Iran and Russia booked their place in the final.

84 iran-turkey: i see, the taliban lost to cebi. :)

Any other updates/results? I need to work and can't watch video, so any info would be appreciated.