A spokesman of the Iranian Wrestling Federation said on Tuesday that the US Wrestling Federation has to be held accountable for failing to issue visas for seven Iranian wrestlers as the host of the Freestyle Wrestling World Championships. Mohammad Ebrahim Emami said that the Iranian federation had done whatever it had to do in advance for the issuance ...

IFP - The United World Wrestling has agreed to allow Iran to host the 2018 Mens Greco-Roman Wrestling World Cup later this year, according to Irans wrestling federation. The decision came following a recent meeting between the Iranian federations president Rasoul Khadem and UWW president Nenad Lalovic. The annual tournament is considered ...

Tasnim - USA freestyle head coach Bill Zadick, along with his wrestlers, expressed disappointment and frustration over the lack of Iran and Russia in this weekends UWW Freestyle World Cup. The international dual meet, featuring some of the worlds best wrestlers, will run April 7-8 at Carver-Hawkeye Arena, in Iowa City, Iowa. Its disappointing that ...

Tasnim - The United World Wrestling (UWW) has posted updates to the 2018 Ranking Series both in freestyle and Greco-Roman. Olympic champion Hassan Yazdani Charati , fresh off winning a gold medal at the Asian Championships in Bishkek, took over the No.1 ranking at 86kg in freestyle with 24 points. Ezzatollah Abbas Akbari Zarinkolaei (24 Points) ...

Tasnim - Young Iranian wrestler Alireza Karimi was banned for six months by the United World Wrestling for his intentional defeat in U23 World Senior Wrestling Championship for avoiding facing an Israeli opponent. Karimi, 23, had intentionally lost a match to Russian rival Alikhan Zhabrayilov to avoid facing an an Israeli opponent in the next round ...

Tasnim- After weeks of diplomatic squabbling between governments, wrestlers from the United States arrived in Iran. The delegation, led by 2012 Olympic champion Jordan BURROUGHS (USA) was cheered on by local wrestling fans and greeted by a swarm of media. The American team arrives after the governments of Iran and United States spent weeks going ...

Press TV- United World Wrestling (UWW) has reacted to Irans travel banon American wrestlers to the Freestyle World Cup in response to President Donald Trump's executive order forbidding visas for Iranians,stating that the sports body values the decision. Though we had hoped for a different outcome from Iran's Foreign Ministry, we appreciate ...

Tasnim- United World Wrestling is committed to offering the worlds best wrestlers the opportunity to compete in topnotch tournaments around the world, and the Freestyle World Cup in Kermanshah, Iran is one of those premier global events. While we have no insight into the political differences between the United State and Iran, the cooperation ...

IFP- To promote wrestling among women, Muslim women in particular, Iran recently offered a new wrestling style entitled cover-singlet wrestling to the United World Wrestling. According to a Farsi report by IRNA, Iran Wrestling Federation announced on Sunday that the UWW has accepted the proposal submitted to Nenad Lalovi?, the president of United ...

TEHRAN, Sep. 05 (MNA) President of Iran Wrestling Federation Rasoul Khadem has been elected as the new member of United World Wrestlings executive committee known as the bureau. United World Wrestling (UWW) held its biannual congress on Sunday on the sidelines of the final day of competition of the 2016 Junior Wrestling World Championships in ...

TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) United World Wrestling (UWW) has officially assigned Iran as the host of 2016 Greco-Roman World Cup. According to the United World Wrestling, the 2016 Greco-Roman World Cup will be held in Iran during May 19-20 and will be attended by eight top teams of 2015 competitions. It is the third consecutive year that Iran holds ...

TEHRAN, Jun. 06 (MNA) United World Wrestling have released the latest ranking of top Greco-Roman world wrestlers in May among which are the names of a number of the Iranian wrestles. According to the ranking, Iran's representatives Hamid Sourian and Afshin Biabangard have landed on the third spot in 59 and 71kg weight categories respectively, IRNA ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 05 (MNA) United World Wrestling officially approved Iran's hosting of 2016 Greco-Roman World Cup. Iran has announced its readiness to hold the competitions earlier on December 2014, proposing Shiraz as the host city. Nenad Lalovic, UWW President, in his approval letter has expressed his pleasure of Irans hosting and has congratulated ...

TEHRAN, Jan. 10(MNA) According to the latest ranking of United World Wrestling, Hamid Sourian has maintained his position as the best Greco-Roman wrestler in weight class of 59 kg. Moreover, Omid Nowrouzi has acheived the second place of class 66 kg, while Afshin Biabangard and Qasem Rezaei, hold the fourth place in 71 and 98 kg classes, respectively....

TEHRAN, Oct. 14 (MNA) The United World Wrestling (UWW) has nominated Tehran and Mazandaran as the host city for the first round of FILA Wrestling World Cup club competitions. Representatives of the United World Wrestling (UWW) have been announced for the first round of freestyle and Greco-Roman competitions of FILA Wrestling World Cup. The freestyle ...