10 May 2025
Monday 29 October 2018 - 11:52
Story Code : 324961

Aliyari Claims Iran�s first medal in World Greco-Roman championship

Tasnim � Mahdi Aliyari from Iran won a bronze medal at the Greco-Roman competition of the World Wrestling Championship on Sunday.


Aliyari, who was scheduled to face Armenian Artur Aleksanyan, won the other 97kg bronze medal by forfeit.

It was Iran�s first medal in the Greco-Roman competition.

Serbian Mihail Kajala also won his first bronze world medal after beating Balazs Kiss from Hungary.

Musa Evloev from Russia defeated Bulgarian Kiril Milov 7-2 in the final match.

Russia finished with 178 team points in Greco-Roman, 89 points ahead of runner-up Hungary (89).

Turkey finished third in the team standings with 75 points.

Iran came 11th in the competition.
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