Omid Norouzi of Iran won Olympic gold medal in men's 60-kilogram Greco-Roman wrestling beating his Georgian opponent Revaz Lashkhi. Haji-Norouzi defeated hisGeorgianopponent 1-0 in both the first and second 2 minutes of the match held at the Londons ExCeL to claim the gold. The 26-year-old Iranian athlete had overcome his Chinese, Bulgarian, ...

By Iran Sport Press Irans Greco-Roman wrestlers Hamid Sourian and Ghasem Rezaei dedicated their gold medals at London Olympics to the victims of the recent earthquakes that struck north-western Iran. Hamid Sourian defeated Azerbaijan's Rovshan Bayramov in the 55kg weight class and won Irans first ever Greco-Roman Olympic gold. Ghasem Rezaei ...

By Washington Post LONDON Ghasem Gholamreza Rezaei of Iran won the Olympic gold medal Tuesday in 96-kg Greco-Roman wrestling. He beat Russias Rustam Totrov 2-0, 1-0 to become Irans third Greco-Roman champion in three days. Rezaei was 16th at the Beijing Games in 2008, but a number of upsets helped clear the way for him and Totrov to meet ...

By Washington Post LONDON Iran had never won an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling until the London Games. By the time the discipline wraps up Tuesday, the Iranians could very well be boasting about a gold for each day of the competition. Saied Mourad Abdvali of Iran hasnt lost in nearly two years, and the 2011 world champion will ...

Iranian 74kg freestyle wrestler Sadegh Goudarzi won silver medal in the London 2012 Olympic Games on Friday. After convincingly beating opponents from Bulgaria, Uzbekistan and Hungary, he succumbed to world champion Jordan Burroughs of the United States. The same fighter whod beaten him in last years world championship final, Press TV reported....

By Wall Street Journal The U.S. will take on Iran in the final of the mens 74-kilogram freestyle wrestling later Friday. The poster boy of American wrestling, Jordan Burroughs, will lock horns with Iranian Sadegh Goudarzi in tonights showdown after he put on an exemplary display of power and speed in London earlier in the day. Burroughs crushed ...

By Reuters (Reuters) - Iran's Behdad Salimikordasiabi won gold in the headline event of the London Olympic weightlifting competition on Tuesday to claim the title of strongest man at the Games. His fellow countryman Sajjad Anoushiravani Hamlabad took the silver to seal a one-two that delighted a crowed packed with Iranian supporters and asserted ...

Iranian weightlifterNavab Nasir-Shalal won the second medal for the Iran's weight-lifting team in London Olympics 2012. Navab Nasir-Shalal, the Iran's represenativein the 105-kilogram claimed the silver medal inLondon Olympics 2012. Nasir-Shalal lifted 184kg in the snatch, and 227 in the clean and jerk. Iran's weight-lifting team also have ...

Iran's super heavyweight Behdad Salimi said my first goal is definitely getting a gold medal, then I can think of record-breaking. ?Salimi is the first chance of winning Olympics gold in London in the super heavyweight category. He can continue the legendary of Iran's heavyweight weightlifters, Fars News AgencyquotedReuters as saying. To claim ...

Hamid Sourian (26) claimed the gold medal of mens 55kg Greco-Roman by defeating Rovshan Bayramov (25) from Azerbaijan. Sourian also made history as Iran's first gold medal winner in Greco-Roman at London 2012 Olympic Games. Before facing with Azeri wrestler, Sourian beat Peter Modos from Hungary and Haakan Erik Nyblom from Denmark and Arsen Eraliev ...