| Mohammad Reza Geraei | |
| Headercolor: | Gold |
| Native Name: | محمدرضا گرایی |
| Native Name Lang: | fa |
| Nickname: | The Iceman |
| Birth Date: | 1996 7, df=yes |
| Birth Place: | Shiraz, Iran |
| Height: | 178 cm |
| Weight: | 70 kg |
| Country: | Iran |
| Sport: | Greco-Roman wrestling |
| Weight Class: | 67 kg |
| Coach: | Rahim Givi Mohammad Bana |
Mohammad Reza Geraei[1] [2] [3] (Persian: محمدرضا گرایی, born 25 July 1996),[4] [5] is an Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler. At the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan, he won the gold medal in the men's 67 kg event. In 2018, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's 67 kg event at the Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.[4]
In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 72 kg event at the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Xi'an, China.[6] At the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary, he won the gold medal in the men's 72 kg event.[7] [8] In the final, he defeated Sanan Suleymanov of Azerbaijan. In the same year, he also won the silver medal in the 77 kg event at the 2019 Asian U23 Wrestling Championship held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.[9] At the 2021 Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he won the gold medal in the men's 67 kg. He qualified for the Tokyo Olympics by winning the semi-finals.
In the weight category of 72 kg, Mohammad Reza Garai passed the barrier of last year's champion Genghis Arsalan 10: 3 in the first round with a result of 10: 3. At this stage, Garai defeated Ramaz Zweidze, the silver medalist of the world under-23s from Georgia, with a result of 7: 5 and a technical blow, and reached the semi-finals. In this match, he defeated Maksim Yutoshenko from Ukraine with a result of 6 to 2 and advanced to the final match. In the final match, he defeated Suleimanov of Azerbaijan with a score of 7: 0 and won the gold medal.
In the 72 kg weight category, Mohammad Reza Garai, after a break in the first round, won the second round with a score of 8: 0 against Aram Wardanian, an Asian bronze medalist from Uzbekistan, and reached the semi-finals. At this stage, he crossed the barrier of world silver medalist Dimio Jadryev from Kazakhstan with a result of 9: 3 and reached the final match. In the final, Garai defeated Hugh Joon Zhang of China 5–0 in the final to win the gold medal.
In the first round, Mohammad Reza Garai defeated Abdul Karim al-Hassan Suri in the first round, and in the second round, he defeated Olympic and world bronze medalist Al-Murat Tasmuradov of Uzbekistan to advance to the semifinals. In this match, he competed against the Kazakh Almaty Kabispayev, the silver and bronze medalist of the world, who was defeated by a technical blow at the very beginning of the wrestling and failed to reach the final. In the 67 kg weight class, Garai competed against Taiwan's Hong Ying-hova, defeating his opponent 11–0 in less than a minute to win the bronze medal.
His older brother Mohammadali Geraei also competes in the Greco-Roman wrestling.
! colspan="7"| International Senior GRECO-ROMAN Matches|-! Res.! Record! Opponent! Score! Date! Event! Location|-! style=background:white colspan=7 ||-|Win|16-0|align=left|
Nazir Abdullaev|style="font-size:88%"|5-2|style="font-size:88%"|October 9, 2021|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=4|2021 World Championships|style="text-align:left;font-size:88%;" rowspan=4|
Oslo, Norway|-|Win|15-0|align=left|
Ramaz Zoidze|style="font-size:88%"|7-6|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=3|October 8, 2021|-|Win|14-0|align=left|
Hasrat Jafarov|style="font-size:88%"|TF 11–0|-|Win|13-0|align=left|
Shimoyamada Tsuchika|style="font-size:88%"|6-5|-! style=background:white colspan=7 ||-|Win|12-0|align=left|
Parviz Nasibov|style="font-size:88%"|9-1|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=4|August 3–4, 2021|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=4|2020 Summer Olympics|style="text-align:left;font-size:88%;" rowspan=4| Tokyo, Japan|-|Win|11-0|align=left| Ramaz Zoidze|style="font-size:88%"|6-1|-|Win|10-0|align=left| Frank Stäbler|style="font-size:88%"|TF 5-5|-|Win|9-0|align=left|
Horta Stiven|style="font-size:88%"|9-0|-! style=background:white colspan=7 ||-|Win|8-0|align=left| SANAN SOLEYMANOV|style="font-size:88%"|TF 7-0|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=5|October 28–30, 2019|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=5|2019 U23 World Championships|style="text-align:left;font-size:88%;" rowspan=5|
Budapest, Hungary|-|Win|7–0|align=left| MAXIM KELASHINKOV|style="font-size:88%"|TF 9-3|-|Win|6-0|align=left| Ramaz Zoidze|style="font-size:88%"|TF 7-5|-|Win|5–0|align=left| MAGMOD YARBILOV|style="font-size:88%"|TF 3-2|-|Win|4–0|align=left|
CHENGIZ ARSALAN|style="font-size:88%"|TF 9-3|-! style=background:white colspan=7 ||-|Win|3-0|align=left|
Zhang hujun|style="font-size:88%"| 5–0|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=3|24 April 2019|style="font-size:88%" rowspan=3|2019 Asian Continental Championships|style="text-align:left;font-size:88%;" rowspan=3| Xi'an, China|-|Win|2-0|align=left|
Demo zhadarev|style="font-size:88%"| 9–3|-|Win|1-0|align=left|
aram vardanian|style="font-size:88%"| 9–0
| Year | Tournament | Location | Result | Event | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | Asian Games | Jakarta, Indonesia | 3rd | Greco-Roman 67 kg | |
| 2019 | Asian Championships | Xi'an, China | 1st | Greco-Roman 72 kg | |
| World U23 Wrestling Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 1st | Greco-Roman 72 kg | ||
| 2021 | Summer Olympics | Tokyo, Japan | 1st | Greco-Roman 67 kg | |
| World Wrestling Championships | Oslo, Norway | 1st | Greco-Roman 67 kg | ||
| 2022 | World Wrestling Championships | Belgrade, Serbia | 2nd | Greco-Roman 67 kg |