Iran once again proved their domination of the World Wrestling Clubs Cup by winning the freestyle trophy for fifth time. Iran’s champion club Grand Bazaar had world class wrestlers like Haji Aliyev, Reza Atri & Behnam Ehsanpour in their squad and to that kind of firepower, opponent Islamic Azad University (Iran) had no answers. Grand Bazaar easily won the best of 10 tie by 8-2 to lift the trophy. World Wrestling Clubs Cup is an international wrestling clubs competition among teams representing member nations of the United World Wrestling (UWW) the sport’s global governing body.
Indian wrestling team which competed in the event without their full fledged squad both in numbers as well as caliber finished disappointing 8th in the 8 team event. The marquee names of the Indian wrestling decided to skip the event. Not only this, Indian team came to Iran with only 6 wrestlers to compete in the best of 10 tie in this team competition. This resulted in India losing all their group matches and then also the classification tie for 7th place to Kyrgyzstan. India lost the last tie 3-7 to Kyrgyzstan to finish 8th in the competition. For India only Gaurav Baliyan (74kg), Sandeep Maan (79kg) & Abhijeet Katake (125kg) won their bouts.
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The team rankings of these competitions are as follows:
1- Iran’s Grand Bazaar
2- Islamic Azad University
3- Atrak North Khorasan
4- China
5- Azerbaijan
6- Georgia
7- Kyrgyzstan
8- India
Final Match Results
Big Market (IRAN) Defeats Islamic Azad University (IRAN) 8-2
57kg: Reza Atri beats Pouria Torkaman 7-0
61kg: Behnam Ehsanpour beats Mohammad Ramadan Pour 5-0
65kg: Haji Aliyev beats Amir Mohammad Yazdani 8-2
70kg: Meysam Nasiri – lost to Mohammad Reza Sergo 2-7
74kg: Saeed Dadashpour, defeats Reza Afzali 3-2
79kg: Gibril Hassanov, beats Hamid Reza Zarrin Peikar 3-2
86kg: Kamran Ghasempour beats Mersad meadow 11-0
92 kg: Alireza Karimi zero lost Hossein Jalali race 0-5
97 kg: Mohammad Mohd beats Hossein Shahbazi Zero 11-0
125 kg: Amir Hossein Zare beats Amyrhydr Bazrafshan 10-0
For the 7th Position –
Kyrgyzstan defeats India 7-3
57kg: India did not had any player
61kg: Suraj Kokate lost to Ulubk Yuldushkubov 1-11
65kg: Ravinder lost to Ernazar Akmataliyev 2-8
70 kg: Naveen lost to Syrgak Oulu 4-5
74 kg: G.Baliyan beats Bkjan Zhambvlvf 6-5
79 kg: Sandeep Man beats Atay Ayzabkvf 5-0
86 kg: India did not had any player
92 kg: India did not had any player
97kg: India did not had any player
125kg: Abhijit Katake defeats Mozaffar Japoviev 8-2
Earlier India lost all their group ties to Georgia, China and Iran to finish last in the group standings.
China beat India 5-5 on better points scored
Georgia beat India 6-4
Iran (Club) beat India 10-0
