Iranian freestyle wrestlers bag colorful medals in 2022 Asian Games

Iranian freestyle wrestlers have won four colorful medals at the 19th Asian Games underway in China's Hangzhou.

Iranian freestyle wrestlers won three gold and one silver medals in the 2022 Asian Games on Saturday.

Amirhossein Zare in the weight category of 125 kg defeated his Mongolian rival Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur 7-0 in the final and grabbed the gold medal of the sporting event.

Zare had defeated Pakistan’s Zaman Anwar 10-0, China’s Buheeerdun 10-0, and Kazakhstan’s Yusup Batirmurzaev 11-0 on his way to the final match.

Also, Younes Emami claimed the gold medal by defeating Japan’s Kirin Kinoshita 9-0 in the men’s 74kg final.

Emami had defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Orozbek Toktomambetov 7-2, China’s Feng Lu 10-2, and Tajikistan’s Magomet Evloev 9-3 on his way to the final.

Meanwhile, Hassan Yazdani defended his gold medal in the 2022 Asian Games by thrashing his Indian rival Deepak Punia 10-0 in the men's 86 kg final.

Yazdani had defeated Kyrgyzstan’s Mukhammad Abdullaev 10-0, Dovletmyrat Orazgylyjov of Turkmenistan 10-0, and Mongolia’s Byambasürengiin Bat-Erdene 10-0 in his previous matches.

Mojtabi Goleij lost to his Russian rival Akhmed Tazhudinov 6-1 and won the silver medal in the men's 97 kg final.

Earlier on Friday, Iranian freestyle wrestler Rahman Amouzad took a silver medal in the 2022 Asian Games.

With more than 12,000 competitors from 45 countries and territories, the Asian Games has more participants than the Olympics.

Iran has sent 289 male and female athletes to the Games in 34 sports events.

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