Historic Double Triumph in Sight: Iran Poised for Simultaneous Freestyle and Greco-Roman World Titles

Tehran - BORNA - Iran is on the verge of achieving a landmark in the history of world wrestling: securing simultaneous team titles in both freestyle and Greco-Roman at the 2025 World Championships in Croatia.

The Greco-Roman squad has already delivered two gold medals and one silver in the opening four weight classes and remains well positioned to add further medals, including another gold and a bronze, in the middle weights. With three weight categories still underway, Iran’s advantage appears strong enough to seal the championship ahead of the final bouts.

This achievement would mark only the second time that Iran has ever claimed a Greco-Roman world team title, the first being in 2014 in Tashkent. What makes this year especially significant, however, is that Iran’s freestyle team has already been crowned world champion. Should the Greco-Roman wrestlers complete their task, it would be the first time in Iran’s history that both national teams have stood atop the world in the same year.

Such a feat is exceedingly rare in global wrestling. Historically, only a handful of nations, such as the former Soviet Union, have managed to dominate both styles in the same edition of the world championships. Wrestling powers have often excelled in one discipline more than the other, making the simultaneous triumph across both divisions a mark of exceptional depth and balance.

For Iran, the potential double championship carries weight far beyond medals and rankings. It highlights the country’s wrestling infrastructure, the effectiveness of its training systems, and the depth of its talent pool across both freestyle and Greco-Roman. It would also reaffirm Iran’s position as one of the world’s premier wrestling nations, capable of challenging for dominance on multiple fronts.

If the Greco-Roman wrestlers in Zagreb deliver as expected, Iran will celebrate not only a world title but also a historic first: becoming one of the very few nations ever to rule the mat in both styles at once.

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