The team’s current haul includes gold medals for Gholamreza Farrokhi (82 kg) and Amin Mirzazadeh (130 kg), as well as a silver medal from Payam Ahmadi (55 kg).
Mohammadhadi Saravi, the 2024 Olympic champion, Saeed Esmaeili, and Alireza Mohmadi will have a chance to add to the medal count in the 97 kg, 67 kg, and 87 kg categories Saturday night.
The Greco-Roman wrestling team first became world champions at the 2014 World Championships in Uzbekistan.
Recently, Iran’s freestyle team captured the title after a 12-year absence from the top spot. The team has won the World Championship five times, with victories in 1961, 1965, 1998, 2002, and 2013.
