Komeil Ghasemi ( fa, کمیل قاسمی, born 27 February 1988)
is a retired Iranian
wrestler
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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.
Ghasemi is the most successful Iranian heavyweight wrestler at the Olympic Games.
He also won a silver medal at the
2011 Asian Wrestling Championships
The 2011 Asian Wrestling Championships were held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The event took place from May 19 to May 22, 2011.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's freestyle
Participating nati ...
in the 120 kg freestyle discipline.
He was born in
Juybar, in Iran's
Mazandaran province but spent his childhood in
Sari
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* as, শাৰী, xārī, translit-std=ISO
* bn, শাড়ি, śāṛi, translit-std=ISO
* gu, સાડી, sāḍī, translit-std ...
. He started wrestling seriously after moving back to
Juybar.
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.
At the
2014 Asian Wrestling Championships he won a gold medal in the 125 kg freestyle tournament,
while at that year's
World Championships
A world championship is generally an international competition open to elite competitors from around the world, representing their nations, and winning such an event will be considered the highest or near highest achievement in the sport, game, ...
he took silver in the same event.
He took silver in the 125 kg freestyle event at the
2015 Asian Wrestling Championships
The 2015 Asian Wrestling Championships was held at the Aspire Dome Volleyball Hall in Doha, Qatar. The event took place from May 6 to May 10, 2015.
Medal table
Team ranking
Medal summary
Men's freestyle
Men's Greco-Roman
Women's frees ...
, losing the final to
Aiaal Lazarev of Kyrgyzstan,
and the
2016 Summer Olympics, behind
Taha Akgül
Taha Akgül (born 22 November 1990 in Sivas, Turkey) is an Olympic, World, and European champion Turkish freestyle wrestler competing in the 125 kg division. He is a 3 time world (2014, 2015, 2022) and 10 time European (2012-2015, 2017-2019, ...
of Turkey.
Ghasemi retired in 2019 after losing the Iranian trials for the
2019 World Wrestling Championships
The 2019 World Wrestling Championships were held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan from 14 September to 22 September 2019.
The tournament served as qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics, the top six wrestlers from each category earned their NOCs a qu ...
.
He is currently the head coach of Cambodian national wrestling team, he started his coaching position in October 2020.
References
External links
Komeil Ghasemiat
United World Wrestling
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Komeil Ghasemion
instagram
1988 births
Living people
Iranian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers of Iran
Olympic gold medalists for Iran
Olympic medalists in wrestling
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
People from Juybar
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Olympic silver medalists for Iran
Asian Wrestling Championships medalists
Sportspeople from Mazandaran province
20th-century Iranian people
21st-century Iranian people
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