Yazdani undergoes surgery on injured shoulder
Freestyle wrestling sensation Hassan Yazdani underwent a surgery on his injured right shoulder in Tehran on Friday.
The operation came 10 months before the 28-year-old Iranian begins his quest for a third successive Olympic medal in Paris next summer.
A winner of a national-high nine world and Olympic medals – including the ultimate prize in Rio 2016 Games – Yazdani had to cope with the injury through September’s World Championships in Belgrade, where he settled for the 86kg silver after yet another setback against his familiar foe David Taylor.
The result in the Serbian capital saw the American take a 3-1 lead in the head-to-head battles with Yazdani in the recent four major finals.
However, Yazdani found a bit of consolation when he went on to march to the gold medal at the recently-finished Asian Games in Hangzhou, claiming four technical-fall victories without conceding a single point.