New technical director of Iran wrestling teams and responsible of Iran free style team, talks about changes in coaching board of free style team of Iran.  

 "Olympics are different from World championships and I felt it was needed to change coaching board of senior freestyle team. I accept the responsibility of senior freestyle team. But we don’t have changes in Greco-roman and Mohammad Bana continues as head coach." Rasul Khadem said.

Rasul Khadem is one of the greatest wrestlers of Iran history and was a genius in his decade.

Khadem won gold medal at 1996 Olympics in Atlanta in 90kg. He also captured two gold medals in 1994 and 1995 world championships.

Bronze medal of 1992 Olympic in Barcelona and world silver medal in 1998 are other honors of Rasul Khadem.

He finished reigning of Russia famous wrestler Makharbek Khadaretsev by defeating him three times in world and Olympic finals. Khadaretsev had 7 world and Olympic gold medals but Khadem didn’t let him to increase gold medals to 10.

Full list of Rasul Khadem honors:

Gold – 1996 Atlanta Olympics (90kg)

Gold- 1995 Atlanta World Championships (90 kg)

Gold- 1994 Istanbul World Championships (90 kg)

 Silver- 1998 Tehran World Championships (120 kg)

Bronze- 1992 Barcelona Olympics (82 kg)

Gold- 1994 Hiroshima Asian Games (90 kg)

Silver- 1990 Beijing Asian Games (68 kg)

Gold- 1996 Asian Championships (90 kg)

Gold- 1995 Asian Championships (90 kg)

Gold- 1993 Asian Championships (90 kg)

Gold- 1992 Asian Championships (82 kg)

Gold- 1991 Asian Championships (82 kg)