Wrestling UWW World Championships 2019

[MHSN 3,632]

9 minutes ago, ChandlerMne said:

Question for #MHSN.

Does Iran have olympic trials in wrestling?

I am sure i read your posts about it but cant be 100% sure.

 

you know we are a unique country, even our trials are unique

 

we never had a fixed rule about the trials . it changes year by year. mostly because our top wrestlers usually try to avoid the trials, they are afraid of losing. if you heard about Hamid Sourian, he is our most accomplished wrestler but he NEVER wrestled any kind of trials inside Iran ! this is unbelievable ! the only match he wrestled in Iran in his entire senior career was a league match which he lost by technical fall !! 

 

for few years our wrestling federation announced they will be very serious about the trials. still half of our top wrestlers didn't show up. of course they always make excuses, some last minute injury. some family emergency things like that. actually we got weaker in past few years mostly because the federation tried to stick to the rule. therefore we had weaker teams in past few years. also some people (including myself) believe some wrestlers are only good for local competitions. we have some wrestlers who dominated everybody in Iran but never won anything internationally.

 

this year our federation was ruined because the previous president resigned, temporary presidents can't do anything. this year it was totally up to the coaches , the whole process is like we have a competition early in the season, that's open for everybody. they pick few guys from each weight, add them to the current national wrestlers, then test all of them in various tournaments, (Asian Championships, World Cup, other tournaments) they choose their team based on those results but then if they can't decide, we will have direct matches between the candidates. but in Greco our coach simply doesn't believe in the trials. he sent everybody (two in each weight) to a tournament in Georgia, whoever wins , also wins the spot in the team. but in freestyle we had direct trials in Iran in 5 Olympic weights. (all Olympic weights except 57kg)

 

now we elected a new wrestling federation president but I assume he won't change a thing for the next year. I think we will follow the same pattern for the Olympics.

 

to give you a better image, this is our trial final at 86kg freestyle in Tehran in packed 12000 stadium. with Olympic Champion Hassan Yazdani facing World U23 Champion Kamran Ghasempour

 

Yazdani is our only gold medal chance here, but still he has to wrestle the trials (and didn't receive a direct place in the world team) because Ghasempour was also pretty good and deserved a chance.

 

 

Edited September 15, 2019 by MHSN

[phelps 7,706]

I don't really know how I could do to see one day 12000 hot fans shouting and jumping for a wrestling match/tournament in Italy...

 

I'm so envious...

 

p.s. thanks for sharing that video...

[MHSN 3,632]

so far Olympic quotas for

 

87 Belarus

97 Poland

67 Serbia

 

these are the "luckier" guys from the top half. repechage from the bottom half will take longer

[phelps 7,706]

by the way, Heiki "lucky" Nabi this time has not been so lucky...he's been thrown out in the round of 16 by Oscar Pino Hinds...

 

in the men's GR -130kg we are almost ready for the quarterfinals, where all winners will get a straight pass to the Olympics for their respective NOC...

 

the quarters are:

 

Kajaia vs Kayalp

Popp vs Abdellatif Mohamed

Ramonov vs Pino Hinds

Ghasemi-Monjezi vs Abdullaev

Edited September 16, 2019 by phelps

[phelps 7,706]

meanwhile the quarters in the men's GR -60kg are:

 

Angelov vs Nejati

Ciobanu vs Fumita

Ainagulov vs Lizatovic

Emelin vs Temirov

[phelps 7,706]

and that's an upset! Dilmukhamedov just won* 3-0 against Vlasov in the -77kg!

 

*with the nice participation of the ref, of course...who gave a doubtful caution to Vlasov for the 0-3 and then allowed the Kazakh to waste all the time he needed to takew the win home...

[dcro 10,210]

Quota for !

[phelps 7,706]

quarterfinals in the men's GR -77kg

 

Lorincz vs Galkinas

Dilmukhamedov vs Nemes

Chalyan vs Liakh

Geraei vs Bjurberg Kessidis

[phelps 7,706]

and quota also for Germany (Frank Staebler in the -67kg) and Turkey (Cenk Ildem in the -97kg, who beat the Iranian Saravi in the last repechage...I know someone wgho's gonna be quite frustrated by this result sorry, @MHSN)...

[phelps 7,706]

13 hours ago, phelps said:

Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling, Day #3 Finals

 

 

-67kg
Gold Medal match: Ismael Borrero Molina vs Artem Surkov
Bronze Medal match #1: Fredrik Holmquist Bjerrehuus vs Mate Nemes / Chen Yan-Kai / Andreas Vetsch
Bronze Medal match #2: Mohamed Ibrahim Elsayed vs Ryu Han Su / Frank Staebler / Hamed Tab / Mihai Radu Mihut

-87kg
Gold Medal match: Zhan Beleniuk vs Viktor Lorincz
Bronze Medal match #1: Denis Maksymilian Kudla vs Mikalai Stadub / Alfonso Antonio Leyva Yepez / Ivan Huklek
Bronze Medal match #2: Rustam Assakalov vs Na Junjie / Shyhazberdi Ovelekov / Atabek Azisbekov

-97kg
Gold Medal match: Musa Evloev vs Artur Aleksanyan
Bronze Medal match #1: Mihail Kajaia vs Tadeusz Michalik / Jahongir Turdiev / Yuta Nara
Bronze Medal match #2: Giorgi Melia vs Mohammad Saravi / Cenk Ildem / Aliaksandr Hrabovik / Matti Elias Kuosmanen

 

 

updated after today's repechage rounds...

 

so, the final Quota distribution in those classes is:

 

-67kg: / / / / /

 

-87kg: / / / / /

 

-97kg: / / / / /