Mansour Barzegar ( fa, منصور برزگر; born 28 February 1947) is a retired

Iranian Iranian may refer to: * Iran, a sovereign state * Iranian peoples, the speakers of the Iranian languages. The term Iranic peoples is also used for this term to distinguish the pan ethnic term from Iranian, used for the people of Iran * Iranian lan ...

welterweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and placed fifth and second, respectively. At the world championships he won one gold and two silver medals between 1973 and 1977. Barzegar was born as the fifth boy in a large sporting family, he also had one sister. He lost his father at the age of 6, and was included into the national wrestling team aged 24. He was seriously injured in the final of the 1975 World Championships, when he lost to his long-time rival

Ruslan Ashuraliyev Ruslan Nuraliyevich Ashuraliyev (Russian: Руслан Нуралиевич Ашуралиев, 20 February 1950 – 27 November 2009) was a Russian freestyle wrestler who won world titles in 1974 and 1975 and placed second in 1973. He competed ...

, but recovered by the 1976 Olympics to win another silver medal. Barzegar retired from competitions at the 1979 World Championships and then had a long career as a national wrestling coach.

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* Sportspeople from Tehran Olympic wrestlers of Iran Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Iranian male sport wrestlers Olympic silver medalists for Iran Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Living people Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 1974 Asian Games World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games 1947 births 20th-century Iranian people 21st-century Iranian people World Wrestling Champions {{Iran-wrestling-bio-stub