Atri wins world silver medal

Sep 19, 2022, 1:47 AM

News ID: 84890947

Tehran, IRNA – Iran's freestyle 61kg wrestler Reza Atri lost the final versus his Japanese competitor, the Olympics silver medal winner to win a silver world championship medal, that is Iran’s 3d silver in these games.

On the 4th and last day of the 2022 Belgrade World Wrestling Championship that began at 8:30 Tehran time, the games in 61, 56 and 97 kg were held in the Serbian capital city.

In 61 kg Iran’s Olympics champ freestyle wrestler Reza Atri beat his Macedonian competitor Basir Ali Lee 11-1. In the next match he beat Safar Islam Barzganov from Azerbaijan Republic 4-0 to reach the quarter final, which he won 6-1 versus a Bulgarian wrestler.

Atri in that match faced a wrestler from Mongolia, whom he beat 5-1 to reach the final.
But he lost the final versus the Olympics silver medal holder Ri Higuchi in only three minutes 10-1 to win the world silver medal.

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