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Iranian freestyle wrestlers rank third at Constantin Alexandru & Ioan W. Popovici and Dumitru Pirvulescu & Vasile Iorga

Saturday, 02 June 2018 8:02 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 03 June 2018 5:15 PM ]

Members of the Iranian cadet national freestyle wrestling team pose for a photograph after finishing third at the Constantin Alexandru & Ioan W. Popovici and Dumitru Pirvulescu & Vasile Iorga in Bucharest, Romania, on June 1, 2018.

Young Iranian freestyle wrestlers have put in fine performances at the Constantin Alexandru & Ioan W. Popovici and Dumitru Pirvulescu & Vasile Iorga in Romania, and ended third overall on the medal table.

The Kazakh freestyle wrestling team was named the top-ranked squad. Georgians claimed the second place.

Iranian freestyle wrestlers finished third, having collected three gold medals through Mehdi Vaisi, Sajjad Goudarzi and Amirhossein Zare’ in the 48-kilogram, 55-kilogram and 110-kilogram weight categories respectively.

Sohrab Adham picked up a silver medal for the Islamic Republic of Iran in the 65-kilogram class, and Abbas Ebrahimzadeh settled for the bronze in the 45-kilogram weight division.

The Constantin Alexandru & Ioan W. Popovici and Dumitru Pirvulescu & Vasile Iorga began in the Romanian capital city of Bucharest on May 31, and will finish on June 3, 2018.

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