2018 Takhti Cup

The 2018 Takhti Cup, were held in the Greco-Romane style in Mahshahr 25–26 January 2018; the men's Freestyle style in Tabriz 8–9 February 2018 in Iran. This tournament was held as 38th. It was held as the first of the ranking series of United World Wrestling, it is only men's Greco-Roman ranking.^{[1][2][3][4][5][6]}

2018 Takhti Cup
Host city	Mahshahr⇒Greco-Roman Tabriz⇒Freestyle
Dates	25–26 January 8–9 February
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Medal table

Rank	Nation	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1	Iran	7	6	15	28
2	Turkey	4	6	4	14
3	Kazakhstan	2	2	4	8
4	Kyrgyzstan	2	1	2	5
5	Mongolia	2	0	2	4
6	Bulgaria	1	1	1	3
7	Azerbaijan	1	0	5	6
8	Belarus	1	0	1	2
9	Georgia	0	2	2	4
10	Ukraine	0	1	2	3
11	Hungary	0	1	0	1
12	Armenia	0	0	1	1
Totals (12 entries)		20	20	39	79

Team ranking

Rank	Freestyle		Greco-Roman
	Team	Points	Team	Points
1	Iran	200	Iran	192
2	Turkey	143	Turkey	171
3	Georgia	84	Georgia	145
4	Kyrgyzstan	80	Azerbaijan	84
5	Kazakhstan	80	Ukraine	81

Medal overview

Freestyle

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
57 kg	Erdenebatyn Bekhbayar  Mongolia	Nader Hajaghania  Iran	Mihran Jaburyan  Armenia
			Dzimchyk Rynchynau  Belarus
61 kg	Niurgun Skriabin  Belarus	Mohammad Ramezanpour  Iran	Giorgi Revazishvili  Georgia
			Mohammad Maleki  Iran
65 kg	Tömör-Ochiryn Tulga  Mongolia	Morteza Ghiasi  Iran	Vasyl Shuptar  Ukraine
			Behnam Ehsanpour  Iran
70 kg	Enes Uslu  Turkey	Giorgi Sulava  Georgia	Joshgun Azimov  Azerbaijan
			Semen Radulov  Ukraine
74 kg	Ali-Pasha Umarpashaev  Bulgaria	Nurlan Bekzhanov  Kazakhstan	Yakup Gör  Turkey
			Hamed Rashidi  Iran
79 kg	Omid Hassantabar  Iran	Mihaly Nagy  Hungary	Murad Suleymanov  Azerbaijan
			Mohammad Motaghinia  Iran
86 kg	Kamran Ghasempour  Iran	Ahmet Bilici  Turkey	Gadzhimurad Magomedsaidov  Azerbaijan
			Masoud Madadi  Iran
92 kg	İbrahim Bölükbaşı  Turkey	Arashk Mohebi  Iran	Batzul Ulziisaikhan  Mongolia
			Mohamad Ebrahimi  Iran
97 kg	Amir Mohammadi  Iran	Rıza Yıldırım  Turkey	Aibek Usupov  Kyrgyzstan
			Roman Bakirov  Azerbaijan
125 kg	Parviz Hadi  Iran	Jafar Shams-Nateri  Iran	Lkhagvagerel Munkhtur  Mongolia
			Ahmad Mirzapour  Iran

Greco-Roman

Event	Gold	Silver	Bronze
55 kg	Ekrem Öztürk  Turkey	Bachana Putkaradze  Georgia	Moslem Naderi Khadem  Iran
			Reza Khedri  Iran
60 kg	Kanybek Zholchubekov  Kyrgyzstan	Mehrdad Mardani  Iran	Dastan Zarlykhanov  Kazakhstan
			Meirambek Ainagulov  Kazakhstan
63 kg	K. Sulaymanov  Kyrgyzstan	Kudaibergen Tursynov  Kyrgyzstan	Urmatbek Amatov  Kyrgyzstan
			Mohammad Nourbakhsh  Iran
67 kg	Almat Kebispayev  Kazakhstan	Fevzi Mamutov  Ukraine	Mohammad Elyasi  Iran
			Atakan Yüksel  Turkey
72 kg	Demeu Zhadrayev  Kazakhstan	Murat Dağ  Turkey	Ibragim Magomedov  Kazakhstan
			Farshad Belfakeh  Iran
77 kg	Mohammad Ali Geraei  Iran	Serkan Akkoyun  Turkey	Boroomand Gharehdaghi  Iran
			Fatih Cengiz  Turkey
82 kg	Emrah Kuş  Turkey	Daniel Aleksandrov  Bulgaria	Aivengo Rikadze  Georgia
			Burhan Akbudak  Turkey
87 kg	Saman Azizi  Iran	Khussein Mutsolgov  Kazakhstan	Azamat Kustubayev  Kazakhstan
			Tarek Abdelsalam  Bulgaria
97 kg	Orkhan Nuriyev  Azerbaijan	Cenk İldem  Turkey	Ali Akbar Heidari  Iran
			Turman Eyyubov  Azerbaijan
130 kg	Behnam Arpatapeh  Iran	Osman Yıldırım  Turkey	Shahab Ghourehjili  Iran

Participating nations

287 competitors from 16 nations participated.

•  Armenia (11)
•  Azerbaijan (21)
•  Belarus (4)
•  Bulgaria (8)
•  Cuba (3)
•  Georgia (24)
•  Iran (79)
•  Italy (5)
•  Kazakhstan (25)
•  Kyrgyzstan (21)
•  Mongolia (4)
•  Romania (6)
•  Tajikistan (11)
•  Turkmenistan (9)
•  Turkey (42)
•  Ukraine (18)

Ranking Series

Ranking Series Calendar 2018:^[7]

• 1st Ranking Series: 25–26 January, Iran, Mahshahr ⇒ 2018 Takhti Cup (GR)
• 2nd Ranking Series: 26–28 January, Russia, Krasnoyarsk ⇒ Golden Grand Prix Ivan Yarygin 2018 (FS)
• 3rd Ranking Series: 15–23 February, Cuba, La Havana ⇒ 2018 Granma y Cerro Pelado (FS, WW, GR)
• 4th Ranking Series: 16–18 February, Sweden, Klippan ⇒ Klippan Lady Open (2018) (WW)
• 5th Ranking Series: 9–10 June, Mongolia, Ulaanbaatar ⇒ 2018 Mongolia Open (FS, WW)
• 6th Ranking Series: 22–23 June, China, Taiyuan ⇒ 2018 China Open (WW)
• 7th Ranking Series: 23–24 June, Hungary, Győr ⇒ 2018 Hungarian Grand Prix (GR)
• 8th Ranking Series: 3–5 July, Georgia, Tbilisi ⇒ 2018 Tbilisi Grand Prix of V. Balavadze and G. Kartozia (FS, GR)
• 9th Ranking Series: 20–22 July, Turkey, Istanbul ⇒ 2018 Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament (GR)
• 10th Ranking Series: 27–20 July, Turkey, Istanbul ⇒ 2018 Yasar Dogu Tournament (FS, WW)
• 11th Ranking Series: 7–9 September, Poland, Warsaw ⇒ Ziolkowski, Pytlasinski, Poland Open (FS, WW, GR)
• 12th Ranking Series: 14–16 September, Belarus, Minsk ⇒ Medved (Test Event Minsk 2019)