Komeil Ghasemi

Komeil Ghasemi
	Ghasemi at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Native name	کمیل قاسمی
Full name	Komeil Ghasemi
National team	Iran
Born	27 February 1988 (age 33); Juybar, Mazandaran, Iran
Height	183 cm (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	120 kg (265 lb)
Website	instagram
Sport
Sport	Wrestling
Coached by	Rasoul Khadem
Medal record
Representing Iran
Men’s freestyle wrestling
Olympic Games
World Championships
Asian Championships

Komeil Ghasemi (Persian: کمیل قاسمی, born 27 February 1988)^[1] is a retired Iranian wrestler who won a gold medal in the men's freestyle 120 kg event at the 2012 Summer Olympics. Ghasemi was awarded his Olympic gold medal after the two wrestlers ahead of him failed drug tests.^[2] Ghasemi is the most successful Iranian heavyweight wrestler at the Olympic Games.

He also won a silver medal at the 2011 Asian Wrestling Championships in the 120 kg freestyle discipline.^[3] He was born in Juybar, in Iran's Mazandaran province but spent his childhood in Sari. He started wrestling seriously after moving back to Juybar.^[4]^[5] Following his Olympic appearance, Ghasemi won the 120 kg weight class at the 2013 Freestyle World Cup in Tehran, Iran, helping his nation take gold in the tournament.^[6] At the 2014 Asian Wrestling Championships he won a gold medal in the 125 kg freestyle tournament,^[7] while at that year's World Championships he took silver in the same event.^[8] He took silver in the 125 kg freestyle event at the 2015 Asian Wrestling Championships, losing the final to Aiaal Lazarev of Kyrgyzstan,^[9] and the 2016 Summer Olympics, behind Taha Akgül of Turkey.^[10] Ghasemi retired in 2019 after losing the Iranian trials for the 2019 World Wrestling Championships.^[11]^[12]^[13]^[14]

References[]

^ Gjerde, Arild; Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon; Hilary Evans (August 2012). "Komeil Ghasemi Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics. Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
^ "IOC Determines Taymazov Fails London Re-Test". United World Wrestling. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.
^ "ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP - TASHKENT 2011" (PDF). International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. May 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
^ "کمیل قاسمی: می‌خواستم بعد از طلای المپیک خداحافظی کنم". mashreghnews.ir. Retrieved 2 July 2020.
^ "Komeil Ghasemi". Athletes. London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. August 2012. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.
^ "Iran wins Freestyle Wrestling World Cup". Tehran Times Volume. 11652 22 Feb 2013. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2013.
^ "Asian Senior Championship - New Delhi (IND)" (PDF). International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2014.
^ "Iran's Komeil Ghasemi wins silver in World Wrestling Championships". Tehran Times. 9 September 2014.
^ "Senior Asian Championship 2015 - Doha (QAT)" (PDF). United World Wrestling. May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.
^ "Taha Akgul Beats Komeil Ghasemi for 125kg Wrestling Gold". WNBC. 20 August 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2021.
^ Feiz, Ali (1 July 2019). "Three Yazdani's Win Iran Freestyle Team Trials, Ghasemi Retires". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
^ "خداحافظی دراماتیک؛گریه سنگین وزن دلنازک". Varzesh3 (in Persian). Retrieved 23 August 2020.
^ "دلیل خداحافظی کمیل قاسمی مشخص شد" (in Persian). rasadvarzeshi.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.
^ "Komeil GHASEMI - Olympic | Islamic Republic of Iran". International Olympic Committee. 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

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[Sports_Reference-1] Gjerde, Arild; Jeroen Heijmans; Bill Mallon; Hilary Evans (August 2012). "Komeil Ghasemi Biography and Olympic Results". Olympics. Sports Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

[Doping-2] "IOC Determines Taymazov Fails London Re-Test". United World Wrestling. 26 July 2019. Retrieved 24 September 2019.

[Asian2011-3] "ASIAN CHAMPIONSHIP - TASHKENT 2011" (PDF). International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. May 2011. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 11 August 2012.

[4] "کمیل قاسمی: می‌خواستم بعد از طلای المپیک خداحافظی کنم". mashreghnews.ir. Retrieved 2 July 2020.

[London-5] "Komeil Ghasemi". Athletes. London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games. August 2012. Archived from the original on 8 December 2012. Retrieved 11 August 2012.

[Cup2013-6] "Iran wins Freestyle Wrestling World Cup". Tehran Times Volume. 11652 22 Feb 2013. Archived from the original on 26 February 2013. Retrieved 22 February 2013.

[Asian2014-7] "Asian Senior Championship - New Delhi (IND)" (PDF). International Federation of Associated Wrestling Styles. April 2014. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2014.

[2014_World-8] "Iran's Komeil Ghasemi wins silver in World Wrestling Championships". Tehran Times. 9 September 2014.

[Asian2015-9] "Senior Asian Championship 2015 - Doha (QAT)" (PDF). United World Wrestling. May 2015. Retrieved 13 May 2015.

[Silver2016-10] "Taha Akgul Beats Komeil Ghasemi for 125kg Wrestling Gold". WNBC. 20 August 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2021.

[Retirement-11] Feiz, Ali (1 July 2019). "Three Yazdani's Win Iran Freestyle Team Trials, Ghasemi Retires". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 3 November 2019.

[12] "خداحافظی دراماتیک؛گریه سنگین وزن دلنازک". Varzesh3 (in Persian). Retrieved 23 August 2020.

[13] "دلیل خداحافظی کمیل قاسمی مشخص شد" (in Persian). rasadvarzeshi.com. Retrieved 6 October 2020.

[Olympic-14] "Komeil GHASEMI - Olympic | Islamic Republic of Iran". International Olympic Committee. 2021. Retrieved 12 April 2021.

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v Olympic medalists for Iran
1900 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Gold medalists	Emam-Ali Habibi Gholamreza Takhti Mohammad Nassiri Abdollah Movahed Rasoul Khadem Hossein Tavakkoli Hossein Rezazadeh (2 titles) Alireza Dabir Hadi Saei (2 titles) Saeid Mohammadpour Hamid Sourian Omid Norouzi Navab Nassirshalal Ghasem Rezaei Behdad Salimi Komeil Ghasemi Kianoush Rostami Sohrab Moradi Hassan Yazdani Javad Foroughi Mohammad Reza Geraei Sajjad Ganjzadeh
Silver medalists	Gholamreza Takhti (2 titles) Nasser Givehchi Mahmoud Namjoo Mehdi Yaghoubi Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour Parviz Jalayer Mohammad Nassiri Rahim Aliabadi Mansour Barzegar Askari Mohammadian (2 titles) Abbas Jadidi Alireza Rezaei Masoud Mostafa-Jokar Kianoush Rostami Sajjad Anoushiravani Ehsan Haddadi Mohammad Bagheri Motamed Sadegh Goudarzi Komeil Ghasemi Ali Davoudi Hassan Yazdani
Bronze medalists	Jafar Salmasi Mahmoud Mollaghasemi Abdollah Mojtabavi Tofigh Jahanbakht Ali Mirzaei Mahmoud Namjoo Mohammad Paziraei Ebrahim Seifpour Esmaeil Elmkhah Ali Akbar Heidari Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Aboutaleb Talebi Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi Ebrahim Javadi Mohammad Nassiri Amir Reza Khadem (2 titles) Rasoul Khadem Hadi Saei Yousef Karami Alireza Heidari Morad Mohammadi Ehsan Lashgari Saeid Abdevali Ghasem Rezaei Kimia Alizadeh Hassan Rahimi Mohammad Hadi Saravi Amir Hossein Zare

v t Olympic Champions in freestyle super heavyweight
1972 Aleksandr Medved (URS) 1976 Soslan Andiyev (URS) 1980 Soslan Andiyev (URS) 1984 Bruce Baumgartner (USA) 1988 David Gobejishvili (URS) 1992 Bruce Baumgartner (USA) 1996 Mahmut Demir (TUR) 2000 David Musulbes (RUS) 2004 Artur Taymazov (UZB) 2008 Bakhtiyar Akhmedov (RUS) 2012 Ghasemi (IRI) & Makhov (RUS) 2016 Taha Akgül (TUR) 2020 Gable Steveson (USA)
1972–1984: +100 kg 1988–2000: 130 kg 2004–2012: 120 kg 2016–present: 125 kg