Mohsen Farahvashi

Mohsen Farahvashi (born 21 July 1947) is an Iranian former wrestler who competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Farahvashi won the gold in the world championship in 1973 in Tehran in 57 kg class, and won the gold in Asian Games in 1974 Tehran in the same weight class. He later moved up to 62 kg weight class in 1975 and was in the 4th place in the 1976 Olympics.

References

↑ "Olympics". sports-reference. Retrieved 12 June 2012.

Asian Games Wrestling Champions in Men's Freestyle Bantamweight

1954–1994: 57 kg 1998: 58 kg 2002–2010: 55 kg 2014–: 57 kg

1954: Minoru Iizuka (JPN) 1958: Minoru Iizuka (JPN) 1962: Tadashi Asai (JPN) 1966: Tadamichi Tanaka (JPN) 1970: Hideaki Yanagida (JPN) 1974: Mohsen Farahvashi (IRI) 1978: Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) 1982: Hideaki Tomiyama (JPN) 1986: Askari Mohammadian (IRI) 1990: Kim Yong-sik (PRK) 1994: Tserenbaataryn Tsogtbayar (MGL) 1998: Ri Yong-sam (PRK) 2002: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2006: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2010: Dilshod Mansurov (UZB) 2014: Jong Hak-jin (PRK)

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