Firouz Alizadeh ( fa, فیروز علی‌زاده, 30 October 1946 – 2005) was a

bantamweight Bantamweight is a weight class in combat sports. For boxing, the range is above and up to . In kickboxing, a bantamweight fighter generally weighs between . In mixed martial arts, MMA, bantamweight is . The name for the class is derived from Ba ...

Greco-Roman wrestler from

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

. He won the world title in 1969 and competed at the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and commonly known as Munich 1972 (german: München 1972), was an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. ...

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* 1946 births 2005 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Iran Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Iranian male sport wrestlers World Wrestling Champions 20th-century Iranian people 21st-century Iranian people Place of birth missing {{Iran-wrestling-bio-stub