Reza Yazdani
Reza Yazdani (, born August 25, 1984, in
Juybar,
Iran), nicknamed
The Leopard of Juybar, is an Iranian
wrestler and two time World Champion who won Gold in the
2011 World Wrestling Championships and
2013 World Wrestling Championships in the 96 kg division. He also won the
gold medal in
2006 Asian Games in the 84 kg division and the
gold medal in
2010 Asian Games in the 96 kg division, as well as the
gold medal in
2014 Asian Games in 97 kg division. He competed in the
London 2012 Olympics and also defeated
Abdusalam Gadisov but was injured in the semi-final versus his Ukrainian competitor,
Valeriy Andriytsev. Yazdani came back from injury for the
2013 World Wrestling Championships in
Budapest, where he won the gold medal in the 96 kg division by defeating
khetag Gazyumov of
Azerbaijan in the finals by a score of 4-2.
As of May 2022, Yazdani was appointed as the head coach of the
Turkmenistan National
Freestyle team.
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