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Iranian wrestlers get two medals in World University Wrestling Championship

Sunday, 30 October 2016 11:06 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 30 October 2016 11:08 AM ]

Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers Farshad Issavand (2nd-R) and Boroumand Aslan (2nd-L) pose with their silver and bronze medals at the 12th edition of the World University Wrestling Championship in Corum, Turkey, October 29, 2016.

Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers have collected two medals in the 12th edition of the World University Wrestling Championship in Turkey.

On Saturday and the opening day of the Greco-Roman bouts of the international sporting event in the northern Turkish city of Corum, Iran’s Farshad Issavand lost to his Kazakh opponent 0-2 in the final encounter of the 59-kilogram weight category, and received the silver medal.

Additionally, Boroumand Aslan overcame a contestant from Ukraine in the third-place bout of the 71-kilogram weight division and snatched the bronze medal.

The 12th edition of the World University Wrestling Championship started in Corum, Turkey, on October 25 and will finish on October 30, 2016.

The tournament has brought together dozens of young wrestlers from Belarus, Canada, Finland, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Moldova, Russia and Turkey.

Earlier in the event, Iranian freestyle wrestlers won five gold medals in addition to three bronzes and clinched the title.

Younes Sarmasti in the 57-kilogram category, Reza Afzali in the 74-kilogram, Mohammad Javad Ebrahimi in the 86-kilogram, Amir Mohammadi in the 97-kilogram, and Reza Mousavi in the 125-kilogram sections were awarded gold medals.

Mehran Nasiri, Meysam Heydari and Hamed Rashidi also pocketed bronze medals for Iran in the 61-kilogram, 65-kilogram and 70-kilogram categories respectively.

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