Iranian freestyle wrestler Hassan Yazdani<\/a><\/strong> claimed the top spot in the United World Wrestling (UWW)<\/a><\/strong> final rankings in 2016 thanks to his dazzling performance in the final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games.<\/p>\n

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Yazdani defeated Russia\u2019s Aniuar Geduev in the final showdown of the 74kg weight class at Rio Games, Tasnim News Agency reported.<\/p>\n

In addition, Iran\u2019s Komeil Qassemi, 125kg, finished in the second place in the rankings after Turkey\u2019s Taha Akgul.<\/p>\n

Georgia\u2019s Geno Petriashvili ranked third in the same weight class.<\/p>\n

In the 70kg weight category, Iran\u2019s Moustafa Hossein-Khani also secured third position after Russia\u2019s Magomed Kurbanaliev and Kazakhstan\u2019s Nurlan Bekzhanov, who ranked first and second respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian freestyle wrestler Hassan Yazdani claimed the top spot in the United World Wrestling (UWW) final rankings in 2016 thanks to his dazzling performance in the final of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games. Yazdani defeated Russia\u2019s Aniuar Geduev in the final showdown of the 74kg weight class at Rio Games, Tasnim News Agency reported. In…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2605,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[218,181,1047,445],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}