Reza Yazdani

Reza Yazdani

Reza Yazdani in 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full name	Reza Yazdani
Nickname	The Leopard of Juybar
Nationality	Iran
Born	(1984-08-25) August 25, 1984 (age 39) Juybar, Mazandaran, Iran
Height	172 cm (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	97 kg (214 lb)
Website	Official Instagram Profile
Sport
Country	Iran
Sport	Wrestling
Medal record Representing  Iran Men's freestyle wrestling World Championships 2011 Istanbul 96 kg 2013 Budapest 96 kg 2006 Guangzhou 84 kg 2007 Baku 84 kg Asian Games 2006 Doha 84 kg 2010 Guangzhou 96 kg 2014 Incheon 97 kg Asian Championships 2010 New Delhi 96 kg 2016 Bangkok 97 kg 2019 Xi'an 97 kg

Reza Yazdani (Persian: رضا یزدانی, 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 the score of 4-2.

As of May 2022, Yazdani was appointed as the head coach of the Turkmenistan National Freestyle team.^[1]

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