{"id":15631,"date":"2025-01-06T14:33:12","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-commemorates-legendary-wrestler-takhti-on-57th-anniversary-of-his-death\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T14:33:12","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:03:12","slug":"iran-commemorates-legendary-wrestler-takhti-on-57th-anniversary-of-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-commemorates-legendary-wrestler-takhti-on-57th-anniversary-of-his-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran commemorates legendary wrestler Takhti on 57th anniversary of his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5320510.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran marked the 57th anniversary of the death of Gholamreza Takhti, legendary wrestler, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The memorial was held at Ibn-e Babouyeh Cemetery in southern Tehran, near Shahr-e Ray, where he is commemorated every year by the Iranians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Takhti was born in Tehran on August 27, 1930 and was found dead in a hotel room on Jan. 7, 1968.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">He won the gold medal in the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne, defeating Boris Kulayev from Soviet Union in the final match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Takhti also claimed two Olympics silver medals in 1952 Helsinki and 1960 Rome.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">He won two World Championships gold medals in 1959 Tehran and 1961 Yokohama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The freestyle wrestler also seized a gold medal in the 1958 Asian Games held in Tokyo, Japan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Takhti is the most famous wrestler in Iranian history. The legend was known for his chivalry and sportsmanship and continues to symbolize the essence of sports to the Iranian people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Mahmoud Khosravi Vafa, head of Iran\u2019s National Olympic Committee (NOC), Mehrali Barancheshmeh, president of Iran&#8217;s Zurkhaneh and Koshti Pahlevani federation, member parliament Ali Yazdi Khah and the wrestling fans attended the ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/508352\/Iran-commemorates-legendary-wrestler-Takhti-on-57th-anniversary\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran marked the 57th anniversary of the death of Gholamreza Takhti, legendary wrestler, on Monday. The memorial was held at Ibn-e Babouyeh Cemetery in southern Tehran, near Shahr-e Ray, where he is commemorated every year by the Iranians. Takhti was born in Tehran on August 27, 1930 and was found dead in a &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-15631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}