2026 Asian Games: Iran secures one wushu gold, three silvers
Iran won one gold and three silver medals in wushu at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Thursday, with Soheil Mousavi claiming the country’s only title in the sanda competition.
Four Iranian fighters reached the finals at the Aichi Prefectural Martial Arts Hall, with Mousavi winning the men’s 75-kilogram division while Sogand Sinkaie, Shoja Panahi and Erfan Moharrami took silver.
In the women’s 52kg, Sinkaie defeated opponents from India, Vietnam and Hong Kong to reach the final contest. She conceded to China’s Wu Di in the final and settled for the silver.
Panahi also finished runner-up in the men’s 65kg division. After victories over opponents from Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam, he lost to China’s Wang Chengjin in the final.
Moharrami Piraghom completed Iran’s three-silver haul in the men’s 70kg category. He had advanced past opponents from Hong Kong, South Korea and Kazakhstan before losing to China’s Ma Shuo in the gold-medal bout.
Mousavi provided Iran’s highlight of the day in the men’s 75kg division.
He defeated opponents from India, South Korea and Uzbekistan on his way to the final, where he faced Kazakhstan’s Abdulrashid Abdullayev. Mousavi won the bout to secure Iran’s lone wushu gold medal at the Games.
The four finalists had all advanced from the semifinals on Wednesday, giving Iran a finalist in each of the four sanda divisions in which it competed that day.
Sanda is the full-contact combat discipline of wushu. At these Games, the Iranian team’s run in the discipline ended with four medals — one gold and three silver.
The Aichi-Nagoya Games are being held from September 19 to October 4 across venues in Japan, with around 17,000 athletes and officials from 45 countries and regions competing in 43 sports.
Iran's delegation, named “Minab Angels”—a tribute to the victims of the US-Israeli attack on Shajareh Tayyebe Elementary School in Minab on February 28—is competing at the Games with 305 athletes across 38 sports.
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