Defeating Turkey
5-2 at final match, Iran wins title at 2012 Greco-roman wrestling World Cup.
It was third consecutive
trophy of Iran in Greco-Roman wrestling World Cup.
Five times World
Champion Hamid Soryan, 2011 World Champions Omid Norouzi and Saeid Abdevali,
2010 Asian Games gold medalist Taleb Nematpour and 2012 Asia champion Davoud
Gilneirang were winner wrestlers of Iran against Turkey.
Iran also defeated
Azerbaijan (4-3), Belarus (5-2), the host team Russia(4-3) and Bulgaria (6-1)
before the final match.
Also South Korea
defeated Azerbaijan 5-2 to place third. Russia defeated Hungary 7-0 to stand
fifth.
Final Rankings
of 2012 Greco-roman Wrestling World Cup:
1- Iran 2-
Turkey 3- South Korea 4- Azerbaijan 5- Russia 6- Hungary 7- Bulgaria 8-
Kazakhstan 9- Belarus 10- Armenia.
Individual
results of final match
Iran 5 – Turkey 2
W55kg: Hamid
Soryan 3 – Fatih Ucuncu 0 (1-0, 2-0)
W 60kg: Omid
Noroozi 2 – Mustafa Saglam 0 (1-0, 1-0)
W 66kg: Saeid
Abdevali 2 – Atakan Yuksel 0 (1-0, 1-0)
W 74kg: Hadi
Alizadeh Pournia 0 – Seref Tufenk 3 (0-2, 0-1)
W 84kg: Taleb
Nematpour 3 – Selguk Gebi 0 (0-1, 0-2)
W 96kg: Davoud
Gilnirang pinned Cenk Ildem (2-0, 4-0 pinned)
W 120kg: Amir
Ghasemi Mongazi 0 – Riza Kayaalp 3 (0-1, 0-2)