Freestyle, Greco-Roman rosters for Asian Champs. released

TEHRAN, Jan. 17 (MNA) – Iranian team has announced the names of its senior Freestyle and Greco-Roman athletes to attend 2016 Asian Championship. Senior Freestyle, Greco-Roman Wrestling Asian Championship will be held in Bangkok, Thailand on February 17-21, 2016. Asian Wrestling Championships is the Wrestling Asian Championship organized by the Asian Associated Wrestling Committee (AAWC). The men's tournament began in 1979 and the women's tournament was first staged in 1996, and it has been held every year. The roster for the Iranian team mainly consists of the top figures at Takhti Cup which was recently held in Tehran on January 14-15, 2016. The names of the selected Iranian senior freestylers are as follow: 58kg: Younes Sarmasti 61kg: Behnam Ehsanpour 65kg: Meysam Nasiri 70kg: Mohammad Naderi 74kg: Mostafa Hosseinkhani 86kg: Ehsan Lashkari 97kg: Reza Yazdani or Amir Mohammadi 125kg: Yadollah Mohebi or Parviz Hadi Meanwhile, headed by Mohammad Bana, a total of eight Iranian Greco-Roman wrestlers will also take part in the Asian event. The names of the selected senior Greco-Roman athletes are as follow: 59kg: Saman Abduwali 66kg: Mahdi Zeidvand 71kg: Afshin Biabangard 75kg: Saeid Abduwali 80kg: Ramin Taheri 85kg: Yousef Ghaderian 98kg: Mehdi Aliyari 130kg: Amir Ghasem Monjazi