Winning  4 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals, Iran Greco-Roman team captured title at 2016 Asian Wrestling Championships in Thailand.

Winning  4 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze medals, Iran Greco-Roman team captured title at 2016 Asian Wrestling Championships in Thailand.

Afshin Biyabangard (71kg), Ramin Taheri (80kg), Mehdi Aliyari (98kg) and Amir Ghasemi Monjazi (130kg) were Iranian wrestlers who achieved gold medal, helping Iran to win its 10^th title at Asian Greco-Roman wrestling championships.

Iran leaded team rankings with 71 pts, Kazakhstan was runner up (58 pts) and Kirgizstan (49 pts) came third.

The results of 2016 GR Wrestling Asian Championships:

59kg (13 entries)
Gold – Kanybek ZHOLCHUBEKOV (KGZ) df. Saman ABDVALI (IRI), 9-4
Bronze –Mirambek AINAGULOV (KAZ) df. Ritisak PRAVAN (THA) 8-0
Bronze – Gaurav SHARMA (IND) df. KIM Eun-Bin (KOR), 2-1

66kg (12 entries)
Gold – CHOI Giuk (KOR) df. Askhat ZHANBIROV (KAZ), 1-1=last point
Bronze – Aram VARDANYAN (UZB) df. JON Won-Chol (PRK), 8-6
Bronze – Mehdi ZEIDVAND (IRI) df. ZHANG Gaoquan (CHN), 5-2

71kg (9 entries)
Gold – Afshin BYABANGARD (IRI) TF.  Nurbek KHOLMUKHAMMATOV (UZB), 8-0
Bronze – Darkhan BAYAKHMETOV (KAZ) df. Didar AMANNAZAROV (TKM)
Bronze – ZHANG Ridong (CHN) df. XU Kai-xiang (TPE), 8-0

75kg (14 entries)
Gold – Doszhan KARTIKOV (KAZ) df. Dilshod TURDIEV (UZB), 4-0
Bronze – Payam BOUYERI PAYANI (IRI) df. Shermet PERMANOV (TKM) by TF, 8-0, 1:01
Bronze – Ruslan TSAREV (KGZ) df. Bakhit Sharif BADR (QAT) by TF, 8-0, 2:11

80kg (10 entries)
Gold – Ramin TAHERISARTANG (IRI) df. Aishan AISHAN (CHN) by TF, 8-0, 4:24
Bronze – Singh HARPREET (IND) df. Jonibek OTABEKOV (UZB), 2-1
Bronze – Ashkhat DILMUKHAMEDOV (KAZ) df. NGHIEM Dinh Hieu (VIE) by TF, 8-0, 0:31

85kg (11 entries)
Gold – Zhanarbek KENZHEEV (KGZ) df. Muhammadali SHAMSIDDINOV (UZB), 3-2
Bronze – PARK Jinsung (KOR) df. Yousef GHADERIAN (IRI), 8-2
Bronze – KONG Liang (CHN) df. Shobhit KUMAR (IND), 6-6

98kg (12 entries)
Gold – Mahdi ALIYARI FEYZABADI (IRI) df. Hardeep HARDEEP (IND) by Fall, 1:57 (7-0)
Bronze – Uzur DZHUZUPBEKOV (KGZ) df. Ali Majeed Hameed AL KAABI (IRQ), 6-5
Bronze – Mohamed Abdelfattah MOHAMED (BRN) df. KIM Seungjun (KOR) by Fall, 4:40 (5-4)

130kg (10 entries)
Gold – Amir GHASEMIMONJAZI (IRI) df. Murat RAMONOV (KGZ) by Fall, 2:16 (2-0)
Bronze – Naveen NAVEEN (IND) df. SUN He (CHN), 6-4
Bronze – Damir KUZEMBAYEV (KAZ) df. Muminjon ABDULLAEV (UZB) by TF, 9-1, 1:55