Death of Abolfazl Anvari, Iranian Flag Bearer in Olympics

Friday, March 2, 2018 - 14:32 By United World Wrestling Press

Iranian flag bearer at 1968 Olympics, Abolfazl ANVARI has passed away at age 79. Anvari was the first Iranian world medal winner at heavy weight and won bronze medals at the 1966 world championships at +97kg, and the 1969 world championships at +100kg.

Anvari placed sixth at 1968 Olympics in Mexico City and also won bronze medal in 1970 Asian Games.

United World Wrestling offers its sympathy to the Iranian wrestling community and to Anvari’s family and friends.

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WATCH: 10 freestyle finals from Ibrahim Moustafa

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 09:33 By Vinay Siwach

ALEXANDRIA, Egypt (March 2) -- The Ibrahim Moustafa Ranking Series closed off with freestyle. The gold medal bouts in Alexandria were nothing short of thrilling with gold medals to Turkey, the USA, Armenia, Kyrgyzstan, Romania, Georgia, Ukraine and Slovakia.

Here are the 10 gold medal bouts from the second Ranking Series event of the year.

GOLD: 57kg - Suleyman ATLI (TUR) vs. Andrii YATSENKO (UKR)

GOLD: 61kg - Taras MARKOVYCH (UKR) vs. Taiyrbek ZHUMASHBEK UULU (KGZ)

GOLD: 61kg - Vazgen TEVANYAN (ARM) vs. Joseph Christopher MC KENNA (USA)

GOLD: 70kg - Lucas CHITTUM (USA) vs. Ernazar AKMATALIEV (KGZ)

Semifinal: 74kg - Iakub SHIKHDZHAMALOV (ROU) vs. Soner DEMIRTAS (TUR) [The at 74kg did not take place after Vincenzo JOSEPH (USA) got injured]

GOLD: 79kg - Avtandil KENTCHADZE (GEO) vs. Amirhossein Morteza Gholi KAVOUSI (IRI)

GOLD: 86kg - Vasyl MYKHAILOV (UKR) vs. Zahid VALENCIA (USA)

Semifinal: 92kg - Khaled ELMOATAMADAWI (EGY) vs. Kollin Raymond MOORE (USA)

GOLD: 97kg - Batyrbek TCAKULOV (SVK) vs. Zbigniew BARANOWSKI (POL)

GOLD: 125kg - Kamil Tomasz KOSCIOLEK (POL) vs. Taha AKGUL (TUR)