Masoud Esmaeilpour and Ehsan Lashgari captured gold medal at Olympic qualifying tournament in Kazakhstan and Olympic licenses for Iran freestyle wrestling team reached to six.

 Masoud Esmaeilpour and Ehsan Lashgari captured gold medal at Olympic qualifying tournament in Kazakhstan and Olympic licenses for Iran freestyle wrestling team reached to six.

Tomorrow newcomer Parviz Hadi competes at 120kg weight class to obtain the last Olympic license of Iran freestyle team. Hadi took gold medal in his first appearance at Asian Championships in Korea.

Hadi hould overcome Artur Taymazov to capture Olympic license.

At first day competitions Masoud Esmaeilpour defeated Yogeshvar Dutt from India in 60kg final match to take revenge the defeat at 2012 Asian Championship final.

Also three times Asia champion Ehsan Lashgari beat som big names at 84kg to win gold medal and Olympic license.

Lashgari defeated former world champion Zaurbek Sukhiev from Uzbkistan (1-3, 2-0 , 5-0 Sukhiev didn’t continue). Iranian 84kg wrestler also beat Olympic silver medalist Yusup Abdusalomov from Tajikistan (4-3, 2-0).

Previously in 2011 World Championships, Iran had qualified for 2012 Olympics in four weights.

Twelve Asian wrestlers received Olympic licenses at first day of competitions in Kazakhstan as follow:

W 55kg: 1- AMIT Kumar(India) 2- Shinichi Yumoto(Japan)

W 60kg: 1- Masoud Esmaeilpour(Iran) 2- Yogeshwar Dutt(India)

W 66kg: 1- Ikhtiyor Navruzov(Uzbekistan) 2- Akzhurek Tanatarov(Kazakhstan)

W 74kg: 1- Rashid Kurbanov(Uzbekistan) 2- Sohsuke Takatani(Japan)

W 84kg: 1- Ehsan Lashgari(Iran) 2- Zaurbek Sukhiev(Uzbekistan)

W 96kg: 1- Kurban Kurbanov(Uzbekistan) 2- Rustam Iskandari(Tajikistan)