According to “Varzesh Se”, this year’s 97 kg freestyle wrestling competition was so star-studded that even one of the Olympic and world champions of this weight, Ahmed Tajuddinov, did not make it to the podium. But the platform of these three weights consists of three other Olympic champions, namely Kyle Snyder, Abdul Rashid Saadaleyev, and Hassan Yazdani, and only one well-known wrestler who does not have a history of world and Olympic championships was standing among these superstars.
Arash Yoshida, who won the 97 kg silver medal after defeating fierce rivals such as Hassan Yazdani and Ahmad Tajuddinov, is now among the superstars of this weight at the peak of his youth.
But the World Union published an interesting photo from 2016; Where Arash Yoshida at the peak of his teenage years has appeared on the mat with a completely different face in wrestling competitions in Japan, but three other 97 kg weight medalists this year have won gold medals in three different weights at the 2016 Rio Olympics:
Hassan Yazdani – 74 kg gold
Abdul Rashid Saadaleyev – 86 kg gold
Kyle Snyder – 97 kg gold
Now, after 10 years, at the age of 22, Arash Yoshida has been placed on the world championship platform among these superstars who once were his role models and he dreamed of wrestling with them. Yoshida, who has a silver and a bronze medal in the world, can definitely be one of the contenders for the 97 kg championship in the coming years.
