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Alipour received the medal in the Women's -61kg after being defeated by Farida Abiyeva from Azerbaijan. She had defeated athletes from Pakistan, Indonesia, and Turkey to get to the final match.Meanwhile, other Iranian female Karatekas Nasrin Dousti and Taravat Khaksar have already won a gold medal in Women’s -50kg and …

Alireza Khojasteh defeated an athlete from Kazakhstan to receive the bronze medal.He had already defeated athletes from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Saudi Arabia and lost the match to the Azerbaijani champion. The Baku 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games started on May 12 and will finish on May 22 in …

Kazakh, South Korean, Japanese, Chinese and Uzbek teams followed the Iranian team in the competition.On the first day of the two-day event, Ramin Taheri, Seyyed Mustafa Salehizadeh and Behnam Mehdizadeh weighing 80, 98 and 130 kilograms respectively won gold medal of the contests.Ali Arsalan weighing 66 kilograms won bronze medal …

Wining 8 points out of 9 games and without being defeated, Massoud Mosaddeq-Pour became the champion for the second time in a row. He had once before won the competitions in Kyrgyzstan in 2015.Ali-Reza Firooz-Ja and Arash Tahbaz came second and third to make Iran the sole medal winning country. …

Operational Committee for the 4th round of Islamic Solidarity Games reported on Thursday that representatives of 54 Islamic states will participate in the event.Kuwait failed to take part in the sports event due to certain limitations imposed by International Olympic Committee (IOC), said the report adding that Sudan and Libya …

Iran’s team defeated the Czech Republic 4-0, Head of Qzvin Football Committee Hossein Bajivand told IRNA.Iran has been overpowered by Spain and Russia.The event was held with attendance of Iran, Russia, Spain and the Czech Republic.9376**1394 ورزش Iran Futsal Russia Contact Editor-in-chief: newsroom@irna.ir تماس بی واسطه با مسئولین www.irna.ir

The two-day Asian Championships in Greco-Roman section kicked off today.In the weight category of 66 kg, Iranian athlete Ali Arsalan defeated North Korea 2-0.During the second match, Arsalan also hit his Indian rival 5-3.Iranian wrestler in 98kg weight category Motafa Salehizadeh overpowered his Kazakh 7-1.In the second round Salehizadeh defeated …

In the first set of the final game, Iran edged past Japan 27-25 in a narrow competition.In the second set, Iran once again had difficulty defeating his heavy-weight rival 26-24. However, everything seemed to be much easier for Iran in the third set where it beat Japan 25-20. Eleven Asian …

The call was made during a meeting between Hashemi and the visiting President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Sir Philip Craven on Monday.Hashemi appreciated the IPC chief for his efforts in line with the growth and development of sports of the disabled.One of the good traits of the IPC …

President Rouhani wrote on his twitter account that also congratulated the Iranian squad for winning the Golden Ball and Golden Glove of 2017 FIFA Beach Soccer World Cup for the first time. Mohammad Ahmadzadeh and Peyman Hosseini managed to bag the Golden Ball and Golden Glove of 2017 FIFA Beach …