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Iran’s first Olympics gold medal winner Habibi turns 93

  1. Sports
May 28, 2024 - 14:12

TEHRAN – Iran’s first Olympics gold medal winner Habibi celebrated his 93rd birthday on Monday, May 27.

The freestyle wrestler, nicknamed ‘Mazandaran’s tiger’, won a gold medal in the 67kg weight class in 1956 Melbourne and became the first Iranian gold medal winner in Olympics.

Habibi also won three gold medals in the 1959, 61, 62 World Championships.

He claimed the gold medal of the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo.

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