Aboutaleb Talebi

Aboutaleb Talebi
Personal information
Born April 10, 1945
Marand, Iran[1]
Died July 21, 2008
Tehran, Iran
Height 160 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Sport
Sport Freestyle wrestling

Aboutaleb Talebi Gorgori (Persian: ابوطالب طالبی گرگری, April 10, 1945 July 21, 2008) was an Iranian bantamweight freestyle wrestler. He won bronze medals at the 1966, 1967 and 1969 world championships and 1968 Summer Olympics.[1][2]

Talebi lost his father to a sudden disease at the age of 11, and started working at a carpet shop next year to help his family. He married in 1968 and had four children.[3]

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