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]

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Mohammad Reza Geraei

Geraei at the 2018 Asian Games
Personal information
Native name	محمدرضا گرایی‎
Nickname	The Iceman
Nationality	Iran
Born	(1996-07-25) 25 July 1996 (age 27) Shiraz, Iran
Height	178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country	Iran
Sport	Greco-Roman wrestling
Weight class	67 kg[1]
Coached by	Rahim Givi Mohammad Bana
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman wrestling Representing  Iran Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo 67 kg World Championships 2021 Oslo 67 kg 2022 Belgrade 67 kg 2023 Belgrade 67 kg Asian Games 2018 Jakarta 67 kg Asian Championships 2019 Xi'an 72 kg Olympic Qualification Tournament 2021 Almaty 67 kg Bolat Turlykhanov Cup 2022 Almaty 72 kg World U23 Championships 2019 Budapest 72 kg Asian Junior Championship 2016 Manila 60 kg

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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.