• Iran freestyle wrestling team wins Asian title in South Korea

      Capturing 5 gold, one silver and one bronze medals, Iran won 2012 Asian free style wrestling championships title in South Korea.

      • 16:40 2012/2/19

      Capturing 5 gold, one silver and one bronze medals, Iran won 2012 Asian free style wrestling championships title in South Korea.

      World bronze medalist at 2011 Hassan Rahimi won gold medal at 55kg.

      Masoud Esmaeilpour reached to silver medal at 60kg.

      Two times world champion Mehdi Taghavi captured gold medal at 66kg.

      Three times world medalist Sadegh Goodarzi was the champion of weight 74kg.

      Two times Asian champion Ehsan Lashgari obtained his third Asian gold medal at 84kg.

      Erfan Amiri failed to reach final at 96kg and placed third.

      Finally Parviz Hadi captured gold medal in his first appearance in national team at 120kg.

      In team standings, Iran was the champion with 67 point, Japan placed second with 49 points and China was third with 46 points.