Ali Akbar Yousefi ( fa, علی‌اکبر یوسفی, born 30 April 1997 is an Iranian professional wrestler. He won

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in the 130 kg event at the

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held in

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. In 2019, he won gold medal in the same event at the U23 World Wrestling Championships held in

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and won bronze medal in 2018, U23. By winning gold medal in 2021 Oslo, He became Iran's first-ever world champion in the heaviest Greco weight class in the World Wrestling Championships.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Yousefi, Ali Akbar Living people People from Babol Iranian male sport wrestlers Asian Wrestling Championships medalists World Wrestling Champions Sportspeople from Mazandaran province 21st-century Iranian people Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Iran Year of birth missing (living people)