Iran won team title at international Greco-roman wrestling tournament “Yadegar Imam” cup.

Iran won team title at international Greco-roman wrestling tournament “Yadegar Imam” cup.

2014 international Greco-roman wrestling tournament “Yadegar Imam” Cup was held in Tehran city and The host country won team title, Hungary was second and Azerbaijan came third.

At the second day of the tournament 2011 world champion Saeid Abdevali shined in new weight category 75kg and achieved gold medal.

Also 2012 Olympic bronze medalist Johan Euren from Sweden captured 130kg title.

Two other gold medals went to 66kg wrestler Azad Aliyev from Azerbaijan and 85kg wrestler Mojtaba Karimfar from Iran.

The individual and team standings of 2014 GR wrestling tournament Yadegar Imam Cup

Second day standings:

66kg: 1- Azad Aliyev (AZE) 2- Maradi Abuladze (GEO) 3- Ramin Taheri (IRI) & Ri Hak Won (PRK) 5- Istvan Kozak (HUN) & Hideyuki Otoizumi (JPN)

75kg: 1- Saeid Abdevali (IRI) 2- Rafik Manukyan (ARM) 3- Takehiro Kanakubo (JPN) & Robert Rosengren (SWE) 5- Niyamaddin Ibrahimov (AZE) & Mohsen Mehdizadeh (IRI)

85kg: 1- Mojtaba Karimfar (IRI) 2- Saman Azizi (IRI) 3- Davoud Akhbari (IRI) & Victor Loerincz (HUN) 5- Vakhtang Khalvashi (GEO) & Ali Gheitasi (IRI)

130kg: 1- Johan Euren (SWE) 2- Behnam Mehdizadeh (IRI) 3- Amir Ghasemi Monjazi (IRI) & Balint Lam (HUN) 5- Parsa Nazari (IRI) & Masoud Nemat Chekani(IRI)

First day standing:

59kg: 1- Mohsen Hajipour(IRI) 2- Yun Won Chol (PRK) 3- Elman Mukhtarov (AZE) & Mohammad Nourbakhsh (IRI) 5- Ota Shinbu (JPN) & Shirzad Beheshti Tala (IRI)

71kg: 1- Tamas Lorincz (HUN) 2- Broman Aslan (IRI) 3- Vahid Babaei Jafari (IRI) & Mohammad Karimi (IRI) 5- Sharur Vardanyan (SWE) & Tsutomu Fujimura (JPN)

80kg: 1- Peter Basci (HUN) 2- Mehdi Hodaei (IRI) 3- Mehdi Mohammadi (IRI) & Yousef Ghaderian (IRI) 5- Elvin Mursaliyev(AZE) & Hossein Nouri (IRI)

98kg: 1- Balazs Kiss (HUN) 2- Ali Aliyari (IRI) 3- Davoud Abedinzadeh (IRI) & Majid Aliyari(IRI) 5- Araz Hasanov (AZE) & Irakli Kajaia(GEO)

Team standings:

1- Iran 74 pts 2- Hungary 55 pts 3- Azerbaijan 39 pts 4- Japan 30 pts 5- Georgia 27 pts 6- Sweden 24 pts 7- North Korea 17 pts 8- Armenia 17 pts 9- Turkey 12 pts 10- Iraq without pts