- Reza Soukhteh Saraei
Reza Soukhteh Saraei (PerB| رضا سوخته سرایی, born
January 31 ,1950 inAli Abad Katool ) is a famousIranian super heavyweight wrestler. Soukhteh Saraei was famous for competing in bothfreestyle andGreco-Roman Wrestling. He was threetimes flag bearer and gold medalist at the 1982, 1986 and 1990Asian Games . He is the second most successful Iranian athlete at theAsian Games with 3 gold medals and 1 silver medal afterEskandar Filabi with 4 gold medals atAsian Games .He was twice finalist at the world championship1978 and 1981 Skopje where he lost against the famousSoviet sSoslan Andiev andSalman Khasimikov respectively. One of the highlights of his career was at the Asian Games 1986 where he competed in Greco-Roman category and won gold medal in order to letAlireza Soleimani to compete in freestyle category who also won gold medal.References
* [http://parssport.ir/sport_heros/reza%20sookhteh%20sarayi/reza_sookhteh_sarayi.htm Biography]
* [http://www.iat.uni-leipzig.de/datenbanken/dbwrest/daten.php?spid=D0F794A4A1094191948C285B11AAB19F FILA Database]
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