World Wrestling Championships in Tehran (1973)
The 1973 FILA Wrestling World Championships were held in Tehran, Iran.
The 1973 FILA Wrestling World Championships were held in Tehran, Iran.
The national football (soccer) team of Iran, known in Persian as Team Melli, ranks 1st in Asia and 33rd in the world according to the December 2013 FIFA World Rankings.
Stonemason Zurkhaneh (“Zurkhaneh”=traditional Iranian wrestling center) is located near the end of Shah-Abbasi Karevansaray and the Goldsmith’s bazaar in the city of Kermanshah. The locals believe that its history goes back to 400 years ago. Many legendary traditional wrestlers of Kermanshah come from this sport club.
Iranian athletes have won a total of 60 medals in wrestling, weightlifting, taekwondo, and athletics.
During the 1930s the traditional Iranian style of wrestling were replaced with the international style. Later on the exercises for the traditional wrestling was renamed to “Varzesh-e Bastani” (the ancient sport).
Siroos Ghahremani, an Iranian showman from the 1950s and 1960s entertains people in his private zoo in the city of Shiraz. The photos are most probably from the mid-1960s.