The 1st European Zurkhaneh Sports Festival 26-31st March in Saarbrucken, Germany
Wed - 04 Apr
Written by Samrat Singh
The first European Zurkhaneh Sports Festival was held from 26-31 March 2007 for a period of three days by offering training courses for Zurkhaneh Sports and Wrestling Championship as well as refreshment courses fro referees of the participating countries. The participating teams practiced under the supervision of their coaches in Saarbrucken, Hermann Neuberger Sportschule. The competitions were inaugurated with the presence of Mohsen Mehralizadeh, Hassan Ghafouri Fard, Amirreza Khadem, Gerd Meyer, Seyed Amir Hosseini, Bernard Gil, Nasser Takmil Homayoun, Hamid Ghasemi, Majid Nadiri and other different countries. Athletes from Belarus, Azerbaijan, Lithuania, Belgium, Germany and Hamburg, Munich, Franfurt as well as some participants from other German cities such as Zariroken Berlin, Bonn, Deuseldrouf particaipated in the events in the disciplines : 1- Team skills 2- Individual 3- Heroic wrestling Teams from Hamburg, Germany and Azerbaijan achieved first and second places respectively. Belgium team of Jahan Pehlevan Takhti and Lithuania gained the joint third place. In Heroic Wrestling, Araz Jafarof from Azerbaijan and Sikresi Andri from Belarus gained first and second places respectively. Hasan Khanpour from Germany and Nahar Artsam from Belarus finished in joint third place. The special award given to Norbert Schuccer German Physiotherapist fro his creativity in Meel Giri.
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