Mohammad Ali Khojastepour

Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour (* 1931 , † 2007 ) was an Iranian wrestler and silver medalist at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in free style flyweight.

Career

Mohammad Ali Khojastepour started wrestling in the military and developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler. In the mid-1950s he replaced the then best Iranian flyweight Mahmoud Mollaghassemi and had his first international assignment in 1955 at the World Youth Festival in Warsaw . There he immediately reached a very good 3rd place.

Mohammad Ali was also at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 . He managed a remarkable victory over Turkish favorites Hüseyin Akbaş . However, he was defeated by the Soviet athlete Mirian Zalkalamanidze and won the silver medal .

His last start in an international championship was at the 1959 World Cup in his native Tehran . Mohammad Ali lost there against the Soviet wrestler Ali Alijew and fought against Ahmet Bilek from Turkey in a draw and had to be satisfied with 4th place.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, back then up to 52 kg body weight)

• 1955, 3rd place , World Youth Festival in Warsaw , F, Fl, behind Mirian Zalkalamanidse , USSR and Yokojama, Japan ;
• 1956, silver medal , OS in Melbourne , F, Fl, with victories over Richard Delgado , USA , Tadashi Asai, Japan, Luigi Chinazzo , Italy and Hüseyin Akbaş , Turkey and one defeat against Mirian Zalkalamanidse;
• 1958, 2nd place , World Cup in Sofia , F, Fl, behind Georgi Sajadow, USSR and ahead of Zalew, Bulgaria , Vitrano, Italy, Alkis, Turkey and Erwin Trouvain , FRG ;
• 1959, 4th place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Fl, with victories over Camille Godel, Switzerland , Dimitrios Raptakis, Greece and Muhamad Niaz-Din, Pakistan , a draw against Ahmet Bilek , Turkey and a defeat against Ali Aliyev , USSR

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine " Athletik " from 1954 to 1959,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

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