Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran

Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran medal table
Wrestling (men)
Iran
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	1964 Tokyo	78 kg
World championships
gold	1961 Manchester	67 kg
silver	1965 Manchester	78 kg

Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran ( Persian محمدعلی صنعت‌کاران; * March 18, 1937 in Tehran ) is a former Iranian freestyle wrestler and participant in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo .

He was 1961 World Champion in the lightweight and winner of the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo welterweight.

Career

Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran started wrestling in 1955. He became a member of "Darai" Tehran and soon concentrated entirely on free style. The 1.77 m tall athlete joined the Iranian national team in the early 1960s and made his first start at the 1961 World Cup in Yokohama . He started there in the lightweight and was able to convince right away. He won his first three fights and defeated u. a. also the Soviet representative Vladimir Sinyavsky . After this victory, two draws against Kazuo Abe from Japan and Udey Chand from India were enough for him to win the title.

In an international match in 1961 in Tbilisi between a selection of the Georgian SSR and Iran , his fight against Jaganadze ended in a draw.

At the 1962 World Cup in Toledo / USA , where he started again in the lightweight, he won his first three fights against Jan Kuczynski from Poland , Mahmut Atalay from Turkey and Gregory Ruth from the USA , each on points and was thus with three Missing points burdened. In his fourth fight he was defeated by Kazuo Abe on points and reached six missing points, which resulted in his elimination. He did not get into the medal ranks.

The same happened to Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran at the 1963 World Cup in Sofia . Here he started in the welterweight division for the first time and won on points in his first three fights against Bengt Fridh from Sweden , Mohamad Bashir from Pakistan and Peter Nettekoven from the Federal Republic of Germany . After losing in the fourth fight against the American Dean Lahr , he again had six missing points and had to retire. Both 1962 and 1963 would have brought him a shoulder win instead of a point win in the medal ranks.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran won his first five fights. He also defeated the representative of the all-German Olympic team Martin Heinze from Halle and the wrestlers Károly Bajkó from Hungary and Petko Dermendjew from Bulgaria . In the finals he fought both against Guliko Sagaradze from the Soviet Union and against İsmail Ogan from Turkey . Since Ogan and Sagaradze also fought against each other in a draw, the missing points from the preliminary fights had to decide. Here Ogan was the happiest. He won the gold medal before Sagaradze. The bronze medal remained for Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran .

Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran also competed in the 1965 World Cup in Manchester . Here he won the welterweight u. a. again over Peter Nettekoven and fought for the gold medal in the final against Guliko Sagaradze. This fight ended in a draw again. Sagaradze, however, had fewer missing points from the preliminary fights than Sanatkaran and thus became world champion. Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran was vice world champion.

After 1965 he ended his international wrestling career. He completed a law degree in Tehran , became a lawyer and later also Iranian sports minister.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, then up to 67 kg (until 1961) and 70 kg (from 1962) or 73 kg (until 1961) and 78 kg (from 1962)

• 1961, 1st place , World Championships in Yokohama , F, Le, with victories over Firdaus Rachman, Indonesia , Beauponnat, France a . Wladimir Sinjawski , USSR a . Draw against Kazuo Abe , Japan a . Udey Chand , India ;
• 1962, 4th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA , F. Le, with victories over Jan Kuczynski , Poland , Mahmut Atalay , Turkey a . Gregory Ruth , USA a. a loss to Kazuo Abe;
• 1963, 5th place , World Cup in Sofia , F, We, with victories over Bengt Fridh, Sweden , Mohamad Bashir , Pakistan and others. Peter Nettekoven , FRG a . a loss to Dean Lahr , USA;
• 1964, bronze medal , OS in Tokyo , F, We, with victories over Muhamad Afzal, Pakistan, Martin Heinze , Germany , Károly Bajkó , Hungary , Yasuo Watanabe, Japan a. Petko Dermendjew , Bulgaria a . Draw against Guliko Sagaradze , USSR a . İsmail Ogan , Turkey;
• 1965, 2nd place , World Championship in Manchester , F, We, with victories over Peter Nettekoven, Yasuo Watanabe, Miroslaw Zywczyk , Poland and others. Yusuf Demir, Turkey a. a draw with Guliko Sagaradze

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1961 to 1965,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Profile of Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )