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Ghasem Rezaei
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Rezaei at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name Ghasem Rezaei
Nickname(s) Tiger of Amol
Born (1985-08-18) 18 August 1985 (age 39)
Amol, Iran
Alma mater Master's degree of Physical Education
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 98 kg (216 lb)
Sport
Country Iran
Sport Greco-Roman wrestling
Club Takhti Amol
Melli Haffari
Coached by Saeed Shirzad
Hassan Yousefi Afshar
Bakhtiar Taghavinia
Medal record
Representing  Iran
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 1 0 1
World Championships 0 1 2
World Cup 1 1 0
World Junior Championships 0 1 0
Other 6 0 1
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
Olympic rings.svg
Gold 2012 London 96 kg
Bronze 2016 Rio de Janeiro 98 kg
World Championships
Silver 2015 Las Vegas 98 kg
Bronze 2007 Baku 96 kg
Bronze 2014 Tashkent 98 kg
World Cup
Gold 2016 Shiraz 98 kg
Silver 2007 Antalya 97 kg
Asian Championships
Gold 2007 Bishkek 96 kg
Gold 2008 Jeju City 96 kg
Bronze 2006 Almaty 84 kg
Grand Prix
Gold 2008 Mariupol 96 kg
Gold 2011 London 96 kg
Gold 2015 Warsaw 98 kg
World Youth Championship
Silver 2005 Vilnius 84 kg
Asian Youth Championship
Gold 2004 Almaty 84 kg

Ghasem Rezaei (Persian: قاسم رضايى, born 18 August 1985) is an Iranian former Greco-Roman wrestler. He was an Olympic gold and bronze medalist and two-time Asian Champion. His nickname is Tiger of Amol.

Career

Rezaei first success at the international level was 2007 when he won bronze in the 2007 World Wrestling Championships. However, his run at the top of the wrestling world was short-lived. Though he represented Iran in the 2008 Olympics, he suffered early defeat in the first round. Rezaei two success won the gold medal at the 2007 Asian Wrestling Championships and 2008 Asian Wrestling Championships. In 2009, Rezaei found himself unable to compete due to injury.

At the 2011 Greco-Roman World Championship, Rezaei was scheduled to face Israeli Robert Avanesyan in the first round. Rather than face the Israeli, Rezaei failed to appear and thus lost the match by forfeit to the Israeli, was eliminated from the tournament, and gave the Israeli free passage into the Round of 16.

In the years leading up to the 2012 games, Rezaei was unable to recapture his status as Iran's top Greco-Roman wrestler at 96 kilograms. In 2012 Rezaei won the Olympic berth for his country. Rezaei in final defeated Rustam Totrov 2–0, 1–0 in the final at the Excel Center in London on Tuesday. Rezaei beat Turkey Cenk Ildem in his first match, before he beat Artur Aleksanyan 2–0, 1–0 in the quarter-finals. Rezaei defeated Yunior Estrada also 2–0, 1–0 in the semi-finals. He won the gold medal in the men's 96 kg Greco-Roman at the 2012 London Olympics in London. Ghasem Rezaei captured gold medal at 2015 International Greco-Roman wrestling tournament, Pytlasinski in Poland. Rezaei in 2015 World Championship won a silver medal at the Greco-Roman 2015. He with Elis Guri 3–0 in the semi-finals, and qualified for the final bout, where he conceded a 3–0 defeat to Artur Aleksanyan and won the silver. Rezaei ended up in Bronze in Greco-Roman wrestling competitions in the men's 96 kg Greco-Roman at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio. Rezaei in his last Olympic game stood in front of Carl Fredrik Schön. Schön went up 4–0 after a takedown and gut wrench in the first period. The Iranian in the second period scored with back-to-back gut wrenches to make the score 4–4 and ultimately give him the victory on criteria.

See also

  • Boycotts of Israel in individual sports
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