Ali mohammadi downed Tiziano Corriga in semifinal of 66kg weight class in 1st Greco-roman Olympic qualifying tournament in Rome and captured fifth licenses for Iran Greco-roman team. He competes against Sergey Kovalenko in final match. 

But Hamid Bavafa failed to qualify Iran in 60kg weight class. Bavafa downed by Jiang Sheng in quarter final. Sheng lost to Davor Stefanek from Serbia in semi final and Bavafa doesn’t have any chance for medal. Iran should seek 60kg license in Serbia Olympic qualifying tournament.

60kg final holds between Stefanek and Dilshod Aripov from Uzbekistan.

Tomorrow Farshad Alizadeh competes in 74kg.

Iranian performances

60kg: Hamid Bavafa

1st round: Bye

2nd round: WINS Riccardo Magni(Italy)   5-0, 3-0

3rd round: LOSS Jiang Sheng (China)  3-0 (Bavafa), 1-2, 1-1

66kg: Ali Mohammadi

1st round: WINS Mikhail Siamionov(Belarus) 3-0, 2-1

2nd round: WINS Vladimir Zaporjan(Moldova) 6-0, 5-2 fall

3rd round: WINS Sylwester Charzewski(Poland) 5-0, 7-0

Semi final: WINS Tiziano Corriga(Italy) 4-0, 3-0

In first day competitions of this tournament  these wrestlers qualified for Olympic:

55kg: 1- Huafeng Jiao(China) 2- Aleksander Kostadinov(Bulgaria) 3- Lasha Gogitadze(Georgia) & Roman Amoyan(Armenia)

84kg:1- Melonin Noumonvi(France) 2- Andrey Samokhin(Kazakhstan) 3- Artur Michalkiewicz(Poland) & Oleksandr Daragan(Ukraine)

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