TEHRAN – Pejman Dorostkar was named as new head coach of Iran freestyle wrestling team on Tuesday. The 45-year-old trainer replaced Gholamreza Mohammadi in the team. Dorostkar, who won two gold medals at the Asian championships in 2001 and 2003, has already worked as head coach of Iran junior team. Dorostkar will have to prepare […]
TEHRAN – Persepolis football team completed the signing of Reza Dehghani on Tuesday. The 23-year-old left winger has penned a two-year contract with Persepolis. He played for Nassaji last season in Iran Professional League. Dehghani is Persepolis’ second signing of the summer. The Reds have already completed the signing of defender Alireza Ebrahimi. Dehghani started […]
TEHRAN – Uzbekistan will host the 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualification Group G matches. Bangladesh was originally chosen to host the competition but the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) has named Uzbekistan as hosts. Iran, Jordan and Bangladesh are in Group G. The 2022 AFC Women’s Asian Cup qualification will be the qualification tournament for […]
TEHRAN – Iran volleyball coach Behrouz Ataei has named his 15-man squad for the 2021 Asian Men’s Volleyball Championship. Iran have been drawn in Pool B along with Thailand, Pakistan and Hong Kong. The tournament will be held in Chiba and Funabashi, Japan from Sept. 12 to 19. The top two teams of the tournament […]
TEHRAN – Sajad Ganjzadeh from Iran claimed a gold medal in the men’s karate kumite competition in the +75kg category of the 2020 Olympic Games on Saturday. He defeated Tareh Hamedi from Saudi Arabia by Hansoku in the final match. Hamedi was given a disqualification penalty for kicking Ganjzadeh hard in the upper body or […]
TEHRAN – Iran national football team will begin the third round of the 2022 World Cup qualification with no warm-up matches, while their opponents in Group A will prepare well for the competition. The UAE, headed by Bert van Marwijk, have started their preparatory camp in Serbia as they ramp up preparations for the third […]
TEHRAN – Iranian volleyball club Saipa knew their rivals at the 2021 Asian Women’s Club Volleyball Championship. The Iranian team have been drawn in Pool B along with Supreme Chonburi (THA-1), which picked up silver medal at the previous edition in Tianjin, China, Altay (KAZ-1) and Rebisco (PHI-1). Nakhon Ratchasima QminC VC (THA-2), Zhetyssu (KAZ-2) […]
TEHRAN – It seems difficult to believe, but Iran volleyball team, headed by Vladimir Alekno, finished in ninth place in the 2020 Olympic Games. It’s while the team had come fifth in the previous edition in Rio. The Russian coach had been appointed as Iran coach to win the first-ever medal with the team but […]
TEHRAN – Esteghlal and Foold football teams defeated their rivals in the Iran’s Hazfi Cup semifinals Wednesday night. Esteghlal defeated Gol Gohar 2-1 in Tehran’s Azadi Stadium thanks to goals from Vouria Ghafouri from the penalty spots in the second half. Amin Pourali scored Gol Gohar’s goal before the halftime. In Ahvaz, Foolad defeated Malavan […]
TEHRAN – Hassan Yazdani from Iran claimed a silver medal at the Wrestling Men’s Freestyle 86kg at the 2020 Olympic Games on Thursday. He lost to David Taylor from the U.S. 4-3 in Tokyo. Yazdani could have won his back-to-back Olympics gold but the American wrestler got a two-point takedown to give him a 4-3 […]
TEHRAN – Iranian weightlifter Ali Davoudi won a silver medal at the +109kg weight class of the 2020 Olympic Games on Wednesday. He lifted a total weight of 441kg. His snatch lift was 200kg, with the clean and jerk of 241kg. Georgian Lasha Talakhadze set a new world record in the snatch lift and clean […]
TEHRAN – Mohammadreza Geraei won Iran’s second gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. He defeated Ukraine’s Parviz Nasibov 9-1 in the men’s Greco-Roman 67kg final bout. Shooter Javad Foroughi had previously claimed Iran’s first gold in the Games. Freestyle wrestler Hassan Yazdani has advanced to the final bout of 86kg and will […]
