Masoud Mostafa Jokar

Masoud Mostafa Jokar medal table
Wrestling
Iran
Olympic Summer Games
silver	2004 Athens	60 kg
World cup
silver	2001 Baltimore	58 kg

Masoud Mostafa Jokar (born September 21, 1977 in Malayer , Hamadan , Iran ; Persian مسعود مصطفی جوکار) is an Iranian wrestler . He won at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens , a silver medal in free style in the featherweight .

Career

Masoud Mostafa Jokar started wrestling as a teenager in his native town in 1988. He joined the wrestling club Takhti Malayer . His coaches were mainly Said Goudarzi and Esmail Dangesaraki. He is an employee of an oil company. During his career, the 1.64 meter tall athlete wrestled in four weight classes. He started in bantamweight and increased over the years to featherweight and lightweight up to welterweight .

He began his international career in 2000 when he took part in the Asian Cup in Guilin / China . In the bantamweight he finished 8th. A later came he came in a World Cup tournament in Baltimore in bantamweight behind Kerry Boumans, of the United States in 2nd place. In 2002 he started at the Asian Games in Busan and came in 6th place in the featherweight division. In 2004 he managed to qualify for participation in the Olympic Games in Athens. In Athens he was in excellent shape and defeated there at featherweight Sahit Prizreni from Albania , Besik Aslanashvili from Greece and Kenji Inoue from Japan . In the final he lost to Yandro Quintana from Cuba . He won an Olympic silver medal with it.

In 2006 he took part in the World Championships in Guangzhou . Starting in the lightweight, he retired there after a fight won by a defeat in his second fight against Leonid Spiridonow from Kazakhstan and only finished 12th. Even at the Asian Games that took place in Doha in December 2006, he could not win a medal in the lightweight. He came in 7th place there.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2000	8th.	Asian Championship in Guilin / China	Bantam	Winner: Ri Yong Sam , North Korea ahead of Damir Sachartinow, Uzbekistan
2001	2.	World Cup in Baltimore	Bantam	behind Kerry Boumans, USA, in front of Murad Ramazan, Russia
2002	6th	Asia Games in Busan	feather	Winner: Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar , Mongolia ahead of Song Jae-myung, South Korea
2004	5.	Olympic qualification tournament in Bratislava	feather	behind Kamal Ustarchanow , Russia, Anatoli Guidea , Bulgaria, Wassyl Fedoryschyn , Ukraine and Guivi Sissaouri , Canada
2004	silver	OS in Athens	feather	after victories over Sahit Prizreni, Albania, Besik Aslanashvili, Georgia and Kenji Inoue, Japan and a defeat against Yandro Miguel Quintana, Cuba
2006	5.	World Cup in Sari / Iran	Light	behind Ugur Cadir, Turkey , Geandry Garzón Caballero , Cuba, Hassan Tahmasebi , Iran and Sergei Latyshev, Russia
2006	12.	World Cup in Guangzhou	Light	after a victory over Franson Gibbons, Palau and a defeat against Leonid Spiridonow, Kazakhstan
2006	7th	Asia Games in Doha	Light	Winner: Baek Jin-kuk, South Korea ahead of Takafumi Kojima, Japan

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
• Bantamweight, weight class up to 2001 up to 58 kg, since 2002 up to 55 kg, featherweight up to 60 kg, lightweight, up to 66 kg and welter weight, up to 74 kg body weight
• "Takhti" Wrestling Club Malayer, named after Gholamreza Takhti , the first Iranian Olympic wrestler

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website

Web links

• Masoud Mostafa Jokar in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )