2014 FILA Wrestling World Championships

mashdi

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Mojtaba Karimfar (85kg) defeated Shahiniyan from Armenia and will wrestle against Uzbek's Assakalov. Uzbek's first name is Rostam. :)
 

mashdi

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#42
Mojtaba Karimfar (85kg) lost to Rostam Assakalov from Uzbekistan. he'll need to wait and see if Uzbek wrestler makes it to final in which case Karimfar will have a chance to wrestle for Bronze medal.
 

mashdi

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#43
75kg:

Hadi Alizadeh lost to Zugaj from Croatia in 1/8. Zugaj advanced to final which gave Alizadeh a chance for Bronze medal but he lost to Suominen from Finland and didn't make it to Bronze medal bout.

85kg:

Mojtaba Karimfar lost to Uzbek wrestler Rostam Assakalov in 1/16.Assakalov lost to Belarus wrestler Javid Hamzatau in 1/8 and that loss eliminated Karimfar from Bronze medal contention.

Iranian wrestler Saman Tahmassebi who is wrestling for Azerbaijan has made it to final of 85kg. he will wrestle for Gold later today.
 

mashdi

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#44
Bronze medal bouts followed by Gold medal bouts for 75kg & 85kg will start in a few minutes.

2 Bronze bouts for 75kg & 2 bronze bouts for 85 kg.

75kg Gold bout is between Neven Zugaj (Croatia) & Arsen Julfalakyan (Armenia).
85kg Gold bout is between Saman Tahmassebi (Azerbaijan) & Melonin Noumonvi (France).
 

mashdi

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#45
Great bout by Armenian Arsen Julfalakyan to beat Zugaj and win Gold. Armenia has won the Gold medal of 75kg.

Bisek (USA) & Mursaliev (Azerbaijan) won Bronze in 75kg.
 

mashdi

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#50
Melonin Noumonvi (France) defeated Saman Tahmassebi (Azerbaijan) by 3-0 and won Gold in Greco-Roman 85kg.
 

mashdi

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#51
Today's Greco-Roman bouts are over.

75kg: 1- Armenia 2- Croatia 3- USA & Azerbaijan - (Hadi Alizadeh finished 16th)

85kg: 1- France 2- Azerbaijan 3- Ukraine & Hungary - (Mojtaba Karimfar finished 14th)
 

mashdi

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#52
It's great to watch replays of Women's wrestling bouts in this World Championship. some inspiring cat fights.
 

mashdi

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#53
Tomorrow's Greco-Roman competition will continue in 3 weight classes.

66kg : Omid Noroozi vs Italy
80kg : Habibollah Akhlaghi vs Kazakhstan
130kg : Behnam Mehdizadeh vs Ukraine
 

Hooshmand

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#55
where the hell was Taleb Namatpour?? he beat Tahmassebi last year in the 84 kg final..
are Souriyan and Omid Norouzi gonna compete in Tashkent?

Seems we don't take world championships seriously any more which is a shame
 

mashdi

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#57
If i am not wrong this is not our A team , right? many new names .
Just like Free Style , Greco-Roman team is a combination of some young wrestlers & some experienced wrestlers. some experienced wrestlers have been rested for the all important Asian Games coming up in a few weeks.
 

mashdi

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#58
Today's bouts have started.

Iran's Habibollah Akhlaghi vs Kustubayev (Kazakhstan) is about to start now.
 

mashdi

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#59
80kg : Great comeback by Habibollah Akhlaghi from 0-2 to beat Kustubayev from Kazakhstan by 3-2. great attacking effort by Akhlaghi in the 2nd period of the bout.