Abbas Zandi ( fa, عباس زندی; 3 June 1930 – 30 October 2017) was an Iranian

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practitioner,

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, national champion, and

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. Zandi had competed in three

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including 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne.

Early life and career

Zandi was born in the ''Sang-e-laj'' neighborhood of

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. When he was 14, he went to ''Babr Club'' and learned wrestling from Abdolhossein Feyli and Hassan Sa'dian. At 17, he became one of the Iran national freestyle wrestling athletes. One year later, Zandi achieved the ''

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'' title. He died on 30 October 2017 at the age of 87.

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* * 1930 births 2017 deaths Olympic wrestlers of Iran Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Iranian male sport wrestlers People from Tehran Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games medalists in wrestling Pahlevans of Iran Wrestlers at the 1958 Asian Games Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games 20th-century Iranian people 21st-century Iranian people World Wrestling Champions {{Iran-wrestling-bio-stub