#Zagreb2019

Iran Enters Young Team into Deep Zagreb Open Field

By Eric Olanowski

ZAGREB, Croatia (January 6) – Iran will be sending a full team to the Zagreb Open, but it surely won’t be the same team they'll be sending to Astana, Kazakhstan for the 2019 World Championships. 

Every wrestler Iran registered for the first Ranking Series event of the year will be making their senior-level international debuts, and only Abolfazl SEYEDMAHDAVI, who finished in eighth place at the 2019 Takhti Cup in Tehran, Iran, has wrestled domestically on the senior-level. 

Though it’s an extremely young team, eight of the ten Iranian wrestlers bring age-group world-level experience into this weekend, with six of those wrestlers boasting world championship medals on their resumes.

The trio of cadet world champions, Poya DAD MARZ (55kg), Mohsen MADHANI (63kg), and Yousef HOSSEINVAND FATHI (72kg) lead the lower half of the Iranian lineup, while 2018 U23 world bronze medalist Aliakbar YOUSOFIAHMADCHALI (130kg) and 2018 cadet world bronze medalist Mohammad NAGHOUSI (77kg) close out the back half of their youthful lineup. 

You can watch the young Iranian squad compete at the Zagreb Open on Saturday (February 9), live on www.unitedworldwrestling.org.

Iran’s Zagreb Open Lineup 
55kg - Poya DAD MARZ – 2017 junior world champion 
60kg - Milad REZANEZHAD HOSSEINVAND – 2017 cadet world championships - 17th place 
63kg-  Mohsen MADHANI – 2017 cadet world champion 
67kg - Mohammad Reza Hojatollah MOKHTARI – 2016 cadet world runner-up 
72kg - Yousef Hajiali HOSSEINVAND FATHI – 2016 cadet world champion, 2018 junior world bronze
77kg - Mohammad Aziz NAGHOUSI – 2018 cadet world bronze medalist
82kg - Hosein FOROUZANDEH GHOJEHBEIGLOU – 2018 junior world championships - 8th place 
87kg - Hasan FOROUZANDEH GHOJEHBEIGLOU
97kg - Abolfazl Naser SEYEDMAHDAVI – 2019 Takhti Cup -  8th place 
130kg - Aliakbar Hossein YOUSOFIAHMADCHALI – 2018 U23 world bronze

#WrestleParis

Paris 2024 Olympics Women's Wrestling Entries

By United World Wrestling Press

PARIS (July 10) -- Women's Wrestling in Paris will see only one returning Olympic champion in Yui SUSAKI (JPN). Five new Olympic champions are set to be crowned as 96 wrestlers compete in six weight classes over a week at the Paris Olympics. Wrestling will be held from August 5 to 11 with Women's Wrestling scheduled each day.

Susaki won the gold medal at 50kg in Tokyo and is looking to defend that. Japan, which won four golds out of six in Tokyo, will hope to clean sweep in Paris with world champions Akari FUJINAMI (JPN), Tsugumi SAKURAI (JPN) and Yuka KAGAMI (JPN) entered. Nonoka OZAKI (JPN), a world champion at 62kg and 65kg, is going up to 68kg for Paris. At 62kg, Sakura MOTOKI (JPN) is a silver medalist from the World Championships.

The United States and Mongolia joined Japan as the only other teams to qualify all six weight classes for Paris. India, Nigeria, Turkiye and China managed to qualify five.

Two-time world 72kg champion Amit ELOR (USA) is down at 68kg in a bid to complete the slam of winning world titles and the Olympic gold. Only Susaki has achieved this feat when she won the U23 world title in 2022. Helen MAROULIS (USA), Rio 2016 champion and bronze medalist in Tokyo, is coming for her third medal.

Four-time Olympic medalist Mariya STADNIK (AZE) is going for her fifth medal, a feat no one has achieved in wrestling before. Kaori ICHO (JPN) has four medals, all golds. In total, 10 Olympic medalists are entered in the field of 96 wrestlers.

Paris 2024 will also mark the first time Algeria, Lithuania, New Zealand and Uzbekistan will send a woman wrestler to the Olympics.

PARIS 2024 SCHEDULE | PARIS 2024 NEWS | PARIS 2024 GRECO-ROMAN ENTRIES | PARIS 2024 FREESTYLE ENTRIES

50kg
Ibtissem DOUDOU (ALG)
Mariya STADNIK (AZE)
Ziqi FENG (CHN)
Alisson CARDOZO REY (COL)
Yusneylis GUZMAN LOPEZ (CUB)
Nada MOHAMED (EGY)
Anastasia BLAYVAS (GER)
VINESH (IND)
*Emanuela LIUZZI (ITA)
Yui SUSAKI (JPN)
Gabija DILYTE (LTU)
Otgonjargal DOLGORJAV (MGL)
Evin DEMIRHAN (TUR)
Oksana LIVACH (UKR)
Sarah HILDEBRANDT (USA)
Aktenge KEUNIMJAEVA (UZB)

53kg
Qianyu PANG (CHN)
Lucia YEPEZ GUZMAN (ECU)
Annika WENDLE (GER)
Maria PREVOLARAKI (GRE)
Mia AQUINO (GUM)
ANTIM (IND)
Akari FUJINAMI (JPN)
Mariana DRAGUTAN (MDA)
Khulan BATKHUYAG (MGL)
Christianah OGUNSANYA (NGR)
Hyo Gyong CHOE (PRK)
Andreea ANA (ROU)
Jonna MALMGREN (SWE)
Zeynep YETGIL (TUR)
Dominique PARRISH (USA)
Betzabeth ARGUELLO VILLEGAS (VEN)

57kg
Chaimaa AOUISSI (ALG)
Giullia PENALBER (BRA)
Hannah TAYLOR (CAN)
Kexin HONG (CHN)
Luisa VALVERDE (ECU)
Sandra PARUSZEWSKI (GER)
Rckaela AQUINO (GUM)
ANSHU (IND)
Aurora RUSSO (ITA)
Tsugumi SAKURAI (JPN)
Anastasia NICHITA (MDA)
Khongorzul BOLDSAIKHAN (MGL)
Odunayo ADEKUOROYE (NGR)
Anhelina LYSAK (POL)
Alina HRUSHYNA AKOBIIA (UKR)
Helen MAROULIS (USA)

62kg
Bilyana DUDOVA (BUL)
Ana GODINEZ (CAN)
Ameline DOUARRE (FRA)
Luisa NIEMESCH (GER)
Sakura MOTOKI (JPN)
Aisuluu TYNYBEKOVA (KGZ)
*Hanbit LEE (KOR)
Orkhon PUREVDORJ (MGL)
Esther KOLAWOLE (NGR)
Grace BULLEN (NOR)
Kriszta INCZE (ROU)
Johanna LINDBORG (SWE)
Siwar BOUSETA (TUN)
Nesrin BAS (TUR)
Iryna KOLIADENKO (UKR)
Kayla MIRACLE (USA)

68kg
Linda MORAIS (CAN)
Feng ZHOU (CHN)
Koumba LARROQUE (FRA)
NISHA (IND)
Nonoka OZAKI (JPN)
Meerim ZHUMANAZAROVA (KGZ)
Irina RINGACI (MDA)
Delgermaa ENKHSAIKHAN (MGL)
Blessing OBORUDUDU (NGR)
Tayla FORD (NZL)
Wiktoria CHOLUJ (POL)
Sol Gum PAK (PRK)
Buse TOSUN (TUR)
Tetiana SOVA RIZHKO (UKR)
Amit ELOR (USA)
Soleymi CARABALLO (VEN)

76kg
Yuliana YANEVA (BUL)
Justina DI STASIO (CAN)
Juan WANG (CHN)
Tatiana RENTERIA (COL)
Milaimys MARIN POTRILLE (CUB)
Genesis REASCO VALDEZ (ECU)
Bernadett NAGY (HUN)
REETIKA (IND)
Yuka KAGAMI (JPN)
Aiperi MEDET KYZY (KGZ)
Davaanasan ENKH AMAR (MGL)
Hannah RUEBEN (NGR)
Catalina AXENTE (ROU)
Zaineb SGHAIER (TUN)
Yasemin ADAR YIGIT (TUR)
Kennedy BLADES (USA)

Note:

* 50kg: Son Hyang KIM (PRK) was originally entered at 50kg. However, DPR Korea surrendered its quota which went to the next best NOC -- Italy

* 62kg: Hyon Gyong MUN (PRK) was originally entered at 62kg. However, DPR Korea surrendered its quota which went to the next best NOC -- Korea