The wrestling world was questioning the absence of world and olympic champ Hassan Yazdani from the World Wrestling Clubs Cup competition concluded on Friday in Iran. Everyone was wondering why the Iranian, nicknamed as ‘The Greatest’ decided to give the tournament in his own backyard a miss. The reason to miss out the tournament has now come in the forefront. Olympic gold medalist Hassan Yazdani tore the meniscus in his knee during the training for the 2019 World Wrestling Clubs Cup concluded in Bojnurd, northeast of Iran. He tore the meniscus in his knee and will get an MRI on Saturday to determine the extent of the injury. He was injured while training with Nader Haj Aghaia from the Minsk region due to which he missed out on the World Clubs Cup despite of

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“I previously had a partial tear in my meniscus but this time it forced me to miss the competition,” Yazdani said. “Fortunately, it is not as long as expected and I think I will come back after one month because I want to hoist our flag in the Olympic once again,” he added.
Yazdani will most likely miss Takhti International Wrestling Cup which will be held in Kermanshah from Jan. 8 to 10 and also the first ranking series event scheduled in Rome. He has already secured his place at the 2020 Olympic Games. Yazdani is an Olympic and World Champion in freestyle wrestling in two weight categories. He became Olympic champion in the 74kg category at the 2016 Summer Olympics after defeating Russian wrestler Aniuar Geduev in the final. The following year he became World Champion at the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in the 86 kg category. He once again won the world wrestling championship crown in 2019 at Nur-Sultan in the category.
Now Yazdani is scheduled to be transferred from Bojnourd to Tehran for treatment to be treated as quickly as possible with six months left to the Olympics. “He missed out on the World Cup,” said Kiomars Mehrabi, the head of the Iran market team in an interview with ISNA, announcing Yazdani’s injury.

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Yazdani was also seen last week giving some training tips to the budding Chinese wrestlers. The Chinese & Iranian wrestling trained together before the Clubs world cup. He was also seeneading some of the training sessions and even demonstrates his prowess on the mat to the visitors. Yazdani in September won his second world championship crown in 86kg weight category as India’s Deepak Punia pulled out of the final bout due to injury at Nur-Sultan.