Morad Mohammadi won ronze medal at 2008 Olympic Games.

Two times world medal winner at 60kg in freestyle defeated Zelimkhan Huseynov from Azerbaijan in two periods 2-0, 3-1.

Mohammadi downed Ibrahim Madani from Egypt 7-0, 2-0, and then won against Saeed Azerbaijani from Canada 1-0, 1-0. He also lost to Mavlet Batirov in semi final 0-1, 0-1. By defeating Vasyl Fedoryshyn from Ukraine, Batirov captured 60kg gold medal.

But Abbas Dabbaghi failed to win medal at 55kg. He won against Freddy Serrano from Colombia (1-0, 1-1, 5-1) but lost to Besik Kudukhov from Russia (6-0, 1-0). Henry Sejudo from USA obtained 55kg gold medal and Tomohiro Matsunaga was second.

First day freestyle standings:

55kg: 1- Henry Sejudo(USA) 2- Tomohiro Matsunaga(Japan) 3- Radoslav Velikov(Bulgaria) & Besik Kudukhov(Russia) 5- Dilshud Mansurov(Uzbekistan) & Namik Sevdimov(Azerbaijan)

60kg: 1- Mavlet Batirov(Russia) 2- Vasyl Fedoryshyn(Ukraine) 3- Morad Mohammadi(Iran) & Kenichi Yumoto(Japan) 5-  Zelimkhan Huseynov (Azerbaijan) & Bazar Bazarguruev(Kyrgyzstan)  

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