{"id":37279,"date":"2026-04-30T21:09:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iranian-wrestling-legend-movahed-dies\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T21:09:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T17:39:59","slug":"iranian-wrestling-legend-movahed-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iranian-wrestling-legend-movahed-dies\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian wrestling legend Movahed dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/4811829.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; The world of wrestling mourns the loss of Iranian icon Abdollah Movahed Ardabili.<\/p>\n<p>Movahed died at the age of 86 in the U.S. on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A titan of freestyle wrestling, Movahed\u2019s career was marked by extraordinary success, including a coveted gold medal at the 1968 Olympics. He was the proud flag bearer for Iran at the 1970 Asian Games, a testament to his esteemed national status.<\/p>\n<p>His dominance extended to the world stage, securing five World Championship gold medals between 1965 and 1970. Movahed\u2019s unparalleled skill and sportsmanship inspired a generation and cemented his legacy as one of wrestling\u2019s all-time greats.<\/p>\n<p>The Tehran Times extends its deepest condolences to his family and the entire sports community.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/525954\/Iranian-legend-wrestler-Movahed-dies\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; The world of wrestling mourns the loss of Iranian icon Abdollah Movahed Ardabili. Movahed died at the age of 86 in the U.S. on Thursday. A titan of freestyle wrestling, Movahed\u2019s career was marked by extraordinary success, including a coveted gold medal at the 1968 Olympics. He was the proud flag bearer for &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9895,2350,56,474],"class_list":["post-37279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-abdollah-movahed","tag-olympics","tag-sports","tag-wrestling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37279","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=37279"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37279\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}