{"id":8470,"date":"2025-09-21T13:05:41","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:05:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/?p=8470"},"modified":"2025-11-04T13:48:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T21:48:13","slug":"esmaeili-claims-gold-at-2025-world-wrestling-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/?p=8470","title":{"rendered":"Esmaeili claims gold at 2025 World Wrestling Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Mohammadhadi Saravi<\/strong>, the\u00a0Olympic Games Paris 2024\u00a0gold medallist, claimed another notable triumph on Saturday (20 September) by regaining the world title he won four years ago at the\u00a0World Wrestling Championships 2025\u00a0in Zagreb, Croatia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\u00a0Greco-Roman\u00a0wrestler from the Islamic Republic of Iran, who also won bronze at\u00a0Tokyo 2020, defeated\u00a0<strong>Artur Sargsian<\/strong>\u00a03-1 in the final of the men\u2019s 97kg division in Croatia\u2019s capital. The bronze medals were secured by Azerbaijan\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Murad Ahmadiyev<\/strong>\u00a0and\u00a0<strong>Kiryl Maskevich<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Defending world champion&nbsp;<strong>Ulvu Ganizade<\/strong>&nbsp;of Azerbaijan ensured a repeat triumph in the 72kg weight class with a 4-2 win over France\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Ibrahim Ghanem<\/strong>, the same opponent he defeated at last year\u2019s championships.&nbsp;<strong>Abdullo Aliev<\/strong>&nbsp;of Uzbekistan and the Islamic Republic of Iran\u2019s&nbsp;<strong>Seyed Sohrabi<\/strong>&nbsp;took the bronze positions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Aidos Sultangali<\/strong>\u00a0turned bronze into gold by winning the men\u2019s 60kg division. The two-time world bronze medallist from Kazakhstan defeated Uzbekistan\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Alisher Ganiev<\/strong>\u00a0in convincing fashion 9-0 in the gold medal match to finally secure the top prize. They were joined on the podium by\u00a0<strong>Ri Se Ung<\/strong>\u00a0of the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea and Armenia\u2019s\u00a0<strong>Hrachya Poghosyan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u200b\u200bCompetition continues on Sunday (21 September) on the final day of the 2025 World Wrestling Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammadhadi Saravi, the\u00a0Olympic Games Paris 2024\u00a0gold medallist, claimed another notable triumph on Saturday (20 September) by regaining the world title he won four years ago at the\u00a0World Wrestling Championships 2025\u00a0in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":8471,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8470"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8472,"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8470\/revisions\/8472"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranreport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}