Ali Arsalan

Ali Arsalan
Personal information
Native name	علی ارسلان
Birth name	Farbod Arsalan
Full name	Ali Arsalan
Nationality	File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran
Born	8 May 1995 (age 29); Amol, Mazandaran, Iran
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Sport
Country	File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia (2022–present); File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran (2011–2021);
Sport	Amateur wrestling
Weight class	72 kg
Event	Greco-Roman
Club	Takhti Amol; Fooladin Zob Amol; RK Spartak;
Coached by	Hassan Hosseinzadeh; Ghasem Rezaei; Amir Hossein Hosseini; Stoyan Stoyanov
Achievements and titles
World finals	Gold (2022) Bronze (2023) (2024)
Regional finals	Bronze (2017) Bronze (2022)
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing File:Flag of Serbia.svg Serbia
World Championships
European Championships
Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament
Representing File:Flag of Iran.svg Iran
World Cup
Asian Championships
Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament
World Juniors Championships
Asian Juniors Championships
Asian Cadets Championships

Ali Arsalan (Persian: علی ارسلان, Serbian Cyrillic: Али Арсалан, born 8 May 1995) is an Iranian-born naturalized Serbian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the 72 kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. This is the first medal for Serbia in the Greco-Roman style at the World Championship in Belgrade.^[1] He represented Iran until December 2021.^[2] He won one of the bronze medals in the 72 kg event at the 2022 European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.^[3]^[4]

Career

He won one of the bronze medals in the men's 66 kg event at the 2015 World Junior Wrestling Championships held in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil.^[5] He also won one of the bronze medals in the men's 66 kg event at the 2017 Asian Wrestling Championships held in New Delhi, India.^[6]^[7] He won the gold medal in the men's 72 kg at the 2021 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Plovdiv, Bulgaria and the 2022 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament held in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria.^[8]

Year	Tournament	Location	Result	Event
2014	Asian Junior Championships	Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia	1st	Greco-Roman 60 kg
2015	Asian Junior Championships	Naypyidaw, Myanmar	1st	Greco-Roman 66 kg
2017	Asian Championships	New Delhi, India	3rd	Greco-Roman 66 kg
2017	World Cup	Abadan, Iran	3rd	Greco-Roman 66 kg
2022	European Championships	Budapest, Hungary	3rd	Greco-Roman 72 kg
2022	World Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	1st	Greco-Roman 72 kg
2023	World Championships	Belgrade, Serbia	3rd	Greco-Roman 72 kg
2024	World Championships	Albania, Tirana	3rd	Greco-Roman 72 kg

↑ Shefferd, Neil (11 September 2022). "Hosts Serbia take two golds on opening day of finals at World Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 11 September 2022.
↑ Brennan, Eliott (25 April 2022). "Olympic karate champion Ganjzadeh criticises Iran's sporting policy on Israel". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
↑ Pavitt, Michael (3 April 2022). "Turkish wrestlers earn Greco-Roman titles as European Championships conclude". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 4 April 2022.
↑ "2022 European Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 April 2022. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
↑ "2015 World Junior Wrestling Championships Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 August 2021. Retrieved 28 October 2021.
↑ Etchells, Daniel (10 May 2017). "Iran's Taherisartang wins third title at Asian Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 10 September 2022.
↑ "2017 Asian Wrestling Championships" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 November 2018.
↑ "2021 Dan Kolov & Nikola Petrov Tournament Results Book" (PDF). United World Wrestling. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 January 2022. Retrieved 26 September 2022.