Iranian Wrestling

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We are STACKED at GR (and FS) heavy weights:

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Why is so much wrestling in Albania now?

Maybe because it's an easy geographic location between Europe and Asia? I personally don't like having tournaments there since they harbor MEK and also banned our wrestlers in the past.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/16/world/europe/iran-mek-albania.html

https://uww.org/article/irans-visa-requests-denied-u23-world-championships

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Why is so much wrestling in Albania now?

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Next up: Asian Championships week after Nowruz.

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Mirza wins GOLD! We dominate heavy weight wrestling.

Our GR team didn't do as great overall (not a surprise, we're much stronger in FS). GR team came in 4th overall in Tirana.

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Mirzazadeh in GR 130 finals vs. Bakir (Turkie) in Tirana.

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Mohamdipiani wins Gold in GR 87kg in Tirana

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Special shoutout to Arash YOSHIDA (JPN), who won gold by beating Snyder in SF and Erfan ALIZADEH in Finals.

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Ghasempour and Zare both take gold in Tirana.

Iran easily wins the FS Team gold medal as well.

nicely done by our team.

GR wrestling next up

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Tirana Ranking Series got under way today. Our FS lightweights did well overall.

Momeni GOLD 57kg
Amouzad GOLD 65kg
Emami BRONZE 74kg

Iran ranks 2nd in FS team points (3 points behind Japan), with additional FS weights to compete tomorrow.

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I don't think I've seen as many flying squirrel attempts as Sohrabi's last gasp efforts lol

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Great performance by the boys! Not all the big hitters at this tournaments but good to see some fresh young faces medalling.