Day 3 of World Freestyle Wrestling Championships: Amouzad and Azarpira to Compete

Tehran - BORNA - Amouzad, world champion and Olympic silver medalist, will compete in the 65kg category, while Azarpira, an Olympic bronze medalist, will fight in the 97kg division. Both are scheduled to begin their preliminary matches at 12:00 Tehran time.

Later in the evening, three other Iranian wrestlers—Younes Emami (74kg), Mohammad Nokhodi (79kg), and Amirhossein Firoozpour (92kg)—will contend for bronze medals in their respective weight classes.

Monday’s competition schedule (Tehran time):

• 12:00–15:30: Repechage in 74kg (Emami) and preliminaries in 65kg and 97kg (Amouzad and Azarpira)

• 18:00–19:00: Semifinals in 65kg and 97kg

• 19:30–21:30: Finals and bronze medal matches in 57kg, 74kg, 79kg, and 92kg (Emami, Nokhodi, Firoozpour)

Draw details for Iranian wrestlers:

In the 65kg class with 34 competitors, Amouzad received a first-round bye. He will face Ikramjan Khadji Muradov of Kyrgyzstan in his opening match. If successful, he will meet the winner of Real Woods (USA) vs. Maxim Sacultan (Moldova). Olympic champion Kaiki Yamaguchi of Japan is on the opposite side of the bracket and could only face Amouzad in the final.

In the 97kg category with 29 participants, Azarpira opens against Gan Khuyag Ganbaatar of Mongolia. If victorious, he will face either Radu Lefter of Moldova or Ahmed Magamaev of Bulgaria. World and Olympic champion Akhmed Tazhudinov of Bahrain is in the same bracket but would not face Azarpira until the semifinals. Magomedkhan Magomedov of Azerbaijan is also in Azarpira’s group, raising the possibility of a quarterfinal clash with the Iranian wrestler.

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