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Iran’s freestyle wrestler Amouzad wins silver medal at Olympic games

Iranian freestyle wrestler Rahman Amouzad won a silver medal at the 2024 Olympic Games on Sunday after losing to Japanese Kotaro Kiyooka in the final of the 65kg category.

Amouzad lost to Kiyooka 10-3 in the final match of the 65kg.

The Iranian athlete defeated American wrestler Zain Retherford 8-0 in his first match and then beat Albanian representative Islam Dudaev 11-0 in quarterfinals.

Amouzad also defeated Hungarian Ismail Musukaev 10-0 in the semifinal.

Iran’s Hassan Yazdani in 86kg and Amirhossein Zare in 125kg have previously claimed two silver medals in the 2024 Olympics.

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