Mohammad Reza Geraei

World U23 Championship 2019 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.

Asian Championship 2019 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.

Asian Games 2018 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.

Personal life

His older brother Mohammadali Geraei also competes in the Greco-Roman wrestling.

On 28 December 2025, Geraei publicly supported the 2025–2026 Iranian protests on his Instagram by sharing a picture of a protester's resistance to physical force from armed members of the Police Command of the Islamic Republic of Iran by sitting in front of them and stating: "Protest is not just shouting, sometimes sitting silently is also protest."

Greco-Roman record

Res. Record Opponent Score Date Event Location

Win 16-0

Win 15-0

Win 14-0

Win 13-0

Win 12-0

Tokyo, Japan Win 11-0

Win 10-0

Win 9-0

Win 8-0

Budapest, Hungary Win 7–0

Win 6-0

Win 5–0

Win 4–0

Win 3-0

Win 2-0

Win 1-0

Achievements