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The popular Iranian wrestler passed away on January 7, 1968 in Hotel Atlantic in downtown Tehran. The two main newspapers of the time Keyhan and Etela'at broke the news on their front pages in their evening editions. “Gholamreza Takhti killed himself”, wrote Keyhan. Etelaat’s headline read: Takhti suicided before noon …

The Iranian official Mehrdad Aliqardashi and President of Hungarian Table Tennis Association Roland Natran voiced readiness for signing memorandum of understanding on sports collaboration. Natran voiced his country’s readiness to hold joint camps for the athletes and take part in the Iranian tournaments.Head of Table Tennis Federation of Iran, for …

The 2020 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXXII Olympiad and commonly known as Tokyo 2020, is an upcoming international multi-sport event that is scheduled to take place from July 24 to August 9, 2020 in Tokyo, Japan.Khedmati ranked 5th in air-pistol category of the International Shooting …

The event was held with the attendance of 661 karatekas from 71 countries on April 19-21.Ganjzadeh in the final match, defeated Turkish rival 2-0 and snatched a gold medal. Meanwhile, Iran's Ali Asghar Asiabari was overpowered by Ukrainian fighter and received a silver medal.Earlier, Taravat Khaksar, Hamideh Abbasali and Saleh …

Haddadi won gold as well as his sixth Asian title with a throw of 65.95 meters in the competitions.Shiri came second with a throw of 60.89 meters and bagged silver in the 23rd Asian Athletics Championships.Jordan, Qatar, Uzbekistan and China ranked third to sixth, respectively in the competitions.8072**2050Follow us on …

The event was held with the attendance of 661 karatekas from 71 countries on April 19-21.In -55kg female weight category Taravat Khaksar defeated Japanese rival and received a bronze medal. In +68kg, Hamideh Abbas Ali hit Japan and snatched a bronze medal.Zabihollah Pourshib in -84kg was overpowered by Turkish fighter …

Iranian athletes Mohammad Sadeq Firouzpour (70kg), Alireza Abdollahi (92kg), Amir Hossein Zare (125kg) received gold medals.Meanwhile, Erfab Jafarian (57kg), Ali Ashkivar (65kg), Abdollag Sheikh Azami (79kg) and Sajjad Habibi (86kg) grabbed bronze medals. This is while, Turkey with 200 points won the game and Azerbaijan with 148 points ranked second. …

In 65kg weight category, Ali Ashkivar defeated Kazakh rival and was overpowered by Azeri wrestler in the second round.In qualifiers match, he hit Kazakh rival and received a bronze medal.Abdollah Sheykh Azami in 79 kg category defeated Turkish rival in the qualifiers match and earned a bronze medal.Meanwhile, after defeating …

Firouzja refused to compete the Israeli rival on Friday evivng while he has defeated all his competitors so far. I was a gesture of solidarity with the Palestinian people demanding Tel Aviv occupying entity to withdraw from the occupied territories.The event is taking place with 904 players from 48 countries. …

The preliminary competitions were held on Friday and Ali Reza Rekabi in the weight category of 97kg advanced to final match. In 70kg weight category, Firouzpour defeated rivals from Turkey in the first round and Kyrgyzstan for the second and third rounds and advanced to the final match. In the …