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The Archery Federation has invited Hossein Nassirinejad, Ghazaleh Rasouli, Davood Nematinia, Nasrin Qashqai, Zahra Fahim and Shahrzad Allahyari to judge at the international tournaments which will be held in Turkey, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain next summer.Regarding the increase in the number of international referees and the decline in the …

'Asia’s record five representatives at the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia maintained their stronghold to stay within the top five with Iran retaining their season’s best in 29th place,' wrote the AFC.It added that Team Melli, which is in Group D with Iraq, Vietnam and Yemen, has had its last …

FIBA has referred to the defensive performance of basketball players in 2019 World Cup Qualifiers and has mentioned the name of the Iranian player Rouzbeh Arghavan twice among the prominent players.Initially, FIBA has pointed to his impressive block shot in Iran versus Filipino which led to Iran's victory and has …

According to IRNA, Iran's national football team which has camped in Qatar since December 17, had a 1-1 draw at a friendly match against Palestine on Monday. After the match, Queiroz told reporters that facing Palestine team showed the progress of the team that has players from Europe. Of course, …

Iran’s national team has set up a beneficial camp in Qatar, which will be followed by another camp in Iran's southern island of Kish before the 2019 AFC tournament, said Mehdi Taj. Saying that Iran has not won the title of AFC Asian Cup in the last 42 years, he …

Ali Akbari received a gold medal in Asian Games 2018.This is while Uzbek Kurash athletes are top in Asian Games and received several gold medals.Kurash is one of the Turkic terms for 'wrestling' and specifically refers to a number of folk wrestling styles practiced in Central Asia. The wrestling is …

Following consultation with Daulet Turlykhanov, the president of the United World Wrestling's Asian Council, Iran's Wrestling Federation submitted the application to the council to host the championships to be held in July. In case the application is granted, the country will host a major Asian event in 2019.9477**1771 Follow us …

In the past days, Iran's Chess Federation has invited athletes from 40 foreign countries to participate in the competition; a total of 600 Iranian and foreign players are expected to compete. The tournament will be held on three tables of professors, amateur players and teens.The tournament will be held on …

In a public disclosure published on Saturday, IWF announced the positive doping results of the urine samples retest taken from five weightlifters that competed in 2012 London Summer Olympics, among which is the Ukrainian weightlifter Oleksiy Torokhtiy. Iran’s then 105-kilogram weightlifter Navab Nassirshalal won the silver of the 105-kilogram category, …

After lifting 191 kg weight in snatch category and 223 kg weight in clean and jerk, Teymouri bagged two bronze medal. The 5th International Qatar Cup was held with the attendance of 117 athletes (61 woman and 56 men) on December 20-23. The three-day event will end this Sunday (December …