Gholamreza Takhti

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Gholamreza Takhti medal table
Takhti in Zurchaneh
Takhti in Zurchaneh

Wrestling (men)

IranIran Iran
Olympic Summer Games
gold 1956 Melbourne 87 kg
silver 1960 Rome 87 kg
silver 1952 Helsinki 79 kg
World championships
gold 1961 Yokohama 87 kg
gold 1959 Tehran 87 kg
silver 1962 Toledo (Ohio) 97 kg
silver 1951 Helsinki 79 kg
Asian Games
gold 1958 Tokyo 87 kg

Gholamreza Takhti , nickname Jahan-Pahlavan ( German  Der Weltheld , Persian غلامرضا تختی Gholamreza Tachti , born August 27, 1930 in Khānīābād , Tehran ; † January 7, 1968 in Tehran) was an Iranian freestyle wrestler . He was a participant in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , 1956 in Melbourne , 1960 in Rome and 1964 in Tokyo .

Life

Gholamreza Takhti had four siblings, two brothers and two sisters. After attending elementary school, he worked as a carpenter and began wrestling in his spare time. At 19 he left Naziabad and started working for the railroad. From his income he financed his further training. His progress was enormous: just two years later he won the silver medal in the middleweight division at the World Wrestling Championships in Helsinki in 1951 .

Takhti took part in four Summer Olympics, winning one gold (1956 - light heavyweight) and two silver medals (1952 - middleweight, 1960 - light heavyweight), and finished fourth at the 1964 Games.

He also won two gold ( 1959 in Tehran, 1961 in Yokohama ) light heavyweight and two silver medals (1951 in Helsinki, 1962 in Toledo ) at world championships in middle and light heavyweight.

On January 7, 1968, after an argument with his wife, Takhti left his home, went to the notary and made his will. On the morning of January 8, 1968, he was found dead in a Tehran hotel. Although Takhti's family, especially his son, have given assurances on several occasions that Gholamreza Takhti committed suicide, rumors persisted that he was murdered by SAVAK . Al-e Ahmad wrote in an essay about Takhti that a folk hero like him, who was such a fine person, would never commit suicide, and the rumor of Takhti's murder was born. How popular Takhti was was shown by his funeral procession. More than 400,000 people from all walks of life came to the funeral of Gholamreza Takhti.

Gholamreza Takhti was considered a fair and athletic competitor on and off the wrestling mat. His eternal rival and friend, the three-time Olympic and seven-time world champion Alexander Vasilyevich Medved from the Soviet Union , visited Takhti's final resting place several times. The Iranian wrestling federation Iran Amateur Wrestling Federation (IAWF) commemorates Takhtis with an annual tournament in the capital Tehran: "Takhti Wrestling Cup" ( German  Takhti Ringer-Pokal ). In September 2007 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling . In addition, the Takhti Stadium in Tehran was named after him.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games , WM = World Championship , F = Freestyle, Wed = Middleweight, HS = Light Heavyweight, S = Heavyweight)

  • 1964, 4th place , OS in Tokyo , F, HS, with wins over Imre Vígh, Hungary, Kawano, Anthony, Buck, Great Britain, a draw against Said Mustafow , Bulgaria and a loss against Ahmet Ayık , Turkey

swell

  • various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from 1950 to 1964,
  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig,
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Abbas Milani: Eminent Persians. Syracuse University Press, 2008, p. 1073.
  2. FILA Class of 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 21, 2010  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wrestlinghalloffame.org