Winning 5 gold and 2 silver medals, Iran team captured titlein Asian Junior Greco-Roman championships. Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlersachieved 5 gold and 2 silver in eight weight categories.

Poya DAD MARZ and Amirmohammad HAJIPOURGANJI (IRI) pushedand pulled their way to a pair of gold medals Thursday night in Taichung,Taiwan.

For his part, Poya DAD MARZ (IRI) took out Alpamys DASTANBEK(KAZ) in the 50kg with an anti-climactic 2-1 decision. Iranian big manAmirmohammad HAJIPOURGANJI (IRI) then followed with a 6-3 decision againstSatish SATISH (IND).

In the finals Tzayev was trailing Keremat ABDEVALI (IRI) bythree points with less than ten seconds remaining in the match, but found hisway to a high dive takedown for four points and the gold medal.

Also Iran's Kaviyaninejad and Balihamzehdeh Toss Their Wayto 66kg, 84kg Titles

Trailing Kaviyaninejad 4-0 early in the night's 66kg finals,Merey BEKENOV (KAZ) challenged a what would have been a match-ending four-pointthrow by Kaviyaninejad. The challenge was accepted and Bekenov, feelingrenewed, led a spritied attack on the restart. But Kaviyaninejad would not bedenied his spectacular throw -- after finding a quick takedown Kaviyaninejadimmediately lifted Bekenov, repeated his original throw and took the gold medalvia technical fall, 12-0.

Teammate Mehdi BALIHAMZEHDEH capped an impressiveperformance with a five-point throw and eventual fall over Kalidin ASYKEEV(KGZ) in the 84kg gold medal finals. The Iranian champion had early pinnedErmatbek SHERMATOV (UZB) in the semifinal.

Also Iran's Mohammad REZAEI (IRI) bested ZholamanSHARSHENBEKOV (KGZ), 4-4 in the 55kg finals to give his home country theirfirst of three gold medals of the night.

The final team scores for Greco-Roman were Iran 71,Kazakhstan 58 and India 55.

Iranian medalists in 2017 Asian Junior Greco-Roman WrestlingChampionships:

50kg: Poya Dadmarz (gold)

55kg: Mohammad Javad Rezaei (gold)

60kg: Keramat Abdevali (silver)

66kg: Amin Kavianinejad (gold)

74kg: Mohammad Shorbi Neiazi (eliminated)

84kg: Mehdi BALIHAMZEHDEH (gold)

96kg: Amirmohammad NOROOZIPASAND (silver)

120kg: 120kg:  Amirmohammad HAJIPOUR GANJI (gold)

Iranian results in the final match:

50kg final:   Poya DADMARZ (IRI) df. Alpamys DASTANBEK (KAZ), 2-1

55kg final: Mohammad Javad REZAEI (IRI) df. ZholamanSHARSHENBEKOV (KGZ), 4-4  

60kg final: Seydylla TAZAYEV (TKM) df. Keramat ABDEVALI(IRI), 8-7

66kg final: Amin KAVIYANINEJAD (IRI) df. Merey BEKENOV (KAZ)by TF, 12-0  

84kg final: Mehdi Mohammad BALI HAMZEHDEH (IRI) df. KalidinASYKEEV (KGZ) by FALL, 13-2  

96kg final: Temur Mirzo MAMAJANOV (UZB) df. Amirmohammad NOROOZIPASAND(IRI), 2-0  

120kg final: Amirmohammad HAJIPOUR GANJI (IRI) df. SatishSATISH (IND), 6-3