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National Freestyle Wrestling Team Heads to US

Iran's national adult freestyle wrestling team left for the US on Wednesday morning, June 8, to participate in the 43rd edition of the Wrestling World Cup.

The Freestyle Wrestling World Cup is to be held on June 11-12 in Los Angeles, California.

Iran is together with Azerbaijan, the US and India in the second group, while Russia, Georgia, Turkey and Mongolia are in the first group.

Iranian athletes have so far won the competitions five times: in Sari 2006, Baku 2012, Tehran 2013 and Los Angeles 2014 and 2015.

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