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TEHRAN ( WNAM MONITORING): Emamali Habib, Iran’s first gold medal winner in the Olympic Games, died on Sunday.
He died in Sari, Mazandaran Province, after struggling with a prolonged illness.
Habibi won Iran’s first gold medal in history in the 1956 Olympic Games.
The freestyle wrestler, nicknamed Tiger of Mazandaran, died at the age of 94.
Habibi also won three gold medals in 1959, 1961, and 1962 World Wrestling Championships.
