UWW Praises Impressive Iranian Wrestling Teams
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran put on an impressive showing in both freestyle and Greco-Roman, winning the team titles in each, while Japan won the women’s wrestling team title.
The Asian Championships, which were the fifth and final Continental Championships, wrapped up last weekend in Xi'an, China, unitedworldwrestling.org reported.
In freestyle, Iran annihilated the competition, wrapping up the team title with seven champions and three bronze-medal finishers. Their ten-medal performance was good enough for 220 points, which was 65 points ahead of second place India, who had 155 points.
Kazakhstan rounded out the top three in the freestyle department with 129 points.
Iran also won the Greco-Roman team title. They did so by narrowly sneaking past second place Uzbekistan by two points.
Majority of Iran’s 165 points came from their four champions and a trio of bronze-medal finishers. Uzbekistan, who had 163 points, had more finalists than Iran, but dropped three of those five gold-medal bouts, falling just short of the podiums top spot.
Kazakhstan had 134 points and finished in third place in Greco-Roman.