Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran
Mohammad- Ali Sanatkaran ( born March 18, 1937) is a former Iranian freestyle wrestler and participants at the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964.
He was 1961 World Champion in the lightweight and winner of the bronze medal at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in the welterweight division.
Career
Mohammad- Ali Sanatkaran began in 1955 with the rings. He became a member of " Darai " Teheran and soon focused entirely on the free style. The 1.77 m tall athlete came at the beginning of the 1960s in the Iranian national team and completed his first start at the World Cup 1961 in Yokohama. He started there in a light weight and was able to convince at first go. He won his first three fights, defeating amongst other things also the Soviet representative Vladimir Sinyavsky. After this victory, he submitted two draws against Kazuo Abe of Japan and Udey Chand from India to win the title.
In an international match in 1961 in Tbilisi, between a selection of the Georgian SSR and Iran, his fight against Dschaganadse ended in a draw.
At the World Cup 1962 in Toledo / USA, where he started at lightweight, he was victorious in his first three fights against Jan Kuczynski of Poland, Mahmut Atalay from Turkey and Gregory Ruth from the U.S., each on points and was characterized by three failure points charged. In his fourth fight he lost to Kazuo Abe on points, reaching six failed points, had his resignation result. He did not come so in a medal.
It was the same Mohammad- Ali Sanatkaran at the World Championships in 1963 in Sofia. Here he started for the first time welterweight and won in his first three fights against Fridh Bengt from Sweden, Mohamad Bashir from Pakistan and Peter Nettekoven from the Federal Republic of Germany on points. After losing the fourth fight against the Americans Dean Lahr he had six failed points again and had to retire. Both 1962 and 1963 had brought to the medal ranks him each a shoulder rather than a victory point victory.
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 Mohammad- Ali Sanatkaran won his first five fights. He defeated thereby also the representative of the overall German Olympic Team Martin Heinze from Halle and the wrestler Károly Bajkó from Hungary and Petko Dermendjew from Bulgaria. In the finals he fought against both Guliko Sagaradse from the Soviet Union and against İsmail Ogan from Turkey undecided. Since Ogan and Sagaradse wrestled against each other in a draw, the missing points in the preliminaries had to decide. Here Ogan was the happiest. He won the gold medal ahead of Sagaradse. For Mohammad- Ali Sanatkaran the bronze medal remained.
Mohammad- Ali Sanatkaran also went at the World Championships 1965 in Manchester at the start. Here he won the welterweight et al again about Peter Nettekoven and ranking in the final battle against Guliko Sagaradse for the gold medal. This fight ended in a draw again. Sagaradse but had fewer absences from the preliminaries points as Sanatkaran and thus became world champion. Mohammad- Ali Sanatkaran became vice - world champion.
After 1965, he ended his international career Ringer. He graduated in law in Tehran, became a lawyer and later Iranian Minister of Sport.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = free style, Le = Lightweight, We = welterweight, then to 67 kg (up to 1961) and 70 kg ( from 1962 ) and 73 kg (up to 1961) and 78 kg ( from 1962) )