Iranian Wrestling

[BusiG]

Zagreb Open Ranking Series will start tomorrow and we will have Participants in every Weight Class in both FS and GR.
In FS there are Israelis in 86kg and 92kg and in GR only in 60kg, so we will have to hope for a good draw(FS Draw for all weights will be tonight) so we wont be put on their side of the bracket.
As usual FS will make the start and GR will start on Friday.

[BusiG]

Brackets are out. In 86 the Israeli has to go into Qualifier vs Valencia and the winner of this Matchup will face Rahmani then.
In 92 we cant face any Israeli until semi-final.

[diz]

Zagreb open highlights for Iran:

FS
"Iran is debuting Ahora KHATERI (IRI) at the senior level. He won the 2023 U17 World Championships at 45kg but moved to 60kg in one year and finished eighth at the U17 World Championships in 2024.

Iran's struggle at the lower weights has continued over a decade now and Khateri is touted as the most promising of the new lot. It is also trying its new batch at 61kg, sending Ahmad JAVAN (IRI), Ebrahim KHARI (IRI) and Reza Hossein MOMENI (IRI) to Zagreb.

But the star of the Iran line-up will be Amirreza MASOUMI (IRI) who won the U20 and U23 World Championships gold medals at 125kg. He is likely to go unchallenged in Zagreb but the field includes Solomon MANASHVILI (GEO), Hayden ZILLMER (USA) and Mason PARRIS (USA) to name a few.

More closely contested battles will be on display at 92kg as Aaron BROOKS (USA) moves up from 86kg, a weight class he won the bronze medal at the Paris Olympics. He will have his hands full with Asian champion Amirhossein FIROUZPOUR (IRI) and former U20 world champion Mohammadmobin AZIMI (IRI).

Kyle SNYDER (USA) will kick off his season in Zagreb and hope to reclaim the gold he lost in 2024 to Amirali AZARPIRA (IRI). The field at 97kg is a little thin but still has Abolfazl BABALOO (IRI), Radu LEFTER (MDA) and Batyrbek TSAKULOV (SVK) among others.

Iran has gone with 2022 U17 world champion Ebrahim ELAHI (IRI) and Sina KHALILI (IRI), a 2023 U17 world champion who finished seventh at the World Championships in Tirana last year."

GR
Jafarov will be back in action at 67kg and hopes to start his season on a high. The wrestlers trying to stop him include teenager Mohammadreza GHOLAMI (IRI) and U20 world champion Ahmadreza MOHSEN NEZHAD (IRI).

Ulvu GANIZADE (AZE) will face a tough challenge from the Iranian duo of Danial SOHRABI (IRI) and Tokyo Olympic champion Mohammadreza GERAEI (IRI).

Paris Olympians Amin KAVIYANI (IRI) and Aram VARDANYAN (UZB) are competing in Zagreb and so is Alexandrin GUTU (MDA) who continues to build his profile.

https://uww.org/article/zagreb-open-...des-drops-68kg

[diz]

Nice Gold Medal run for Ebrahimzadeh at 65kg FS. Nice to see some youngsters dominating the lower weights for our TM

[PEJ]

All 4 of our wrestlers are in the final today. 125kg Masoumi, 97kg Babaloo will go against Kyle Snyder, 92kg Firouzpour and 79kg yousefihajiv.

[PEJ]

We went 2-2 in the afternoon. Masoumi tech’s Mason Paris, the American Olympian. Babaloo got tech’s by Snyder. Firouzpour won and Yousefi lost.

On a side note, it appears the French have thrown their hat in the ring and are buying a lot of Dagestani/Cechen wrestlers. They had a good run in the tournament. The 79kg guy who beat Yusefi was “French”.