Mohammad Hadi Saravi Darkolaei (; born 6 January 1998) is an Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in the 97kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway. He also won one of the bronze medals in the 97kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan. In 2020, he won the gold medal in his event at the Asian Wrestling Championships held in New Delhi, India. He also won the gold medal in the 97kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.
Early life Mohammad Hadi Saravi was born in Dar Kola, Amol, as the second child in the family. He began wrestling seriously in 2012, when he was 14 years old. He started wrestling in the grassroots teams under the supervision of Hassan Hosseinzadeh.
Career In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 87 kg event at the Asian U23 Wrestling Championship held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia. In the same year, he also competed in the men's 97kg event at the 2019 World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. At the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary, he won one of the bronze medals in the men's 97 kg event. Saravi beating his Hungarian competitor in the Oslo 2021 Greco-Roman World Match in final to win the team's first gold medal. He defeated Nikoloz Kakhelashvili of Italy 5-0 in the final.
He won the bronze medal in the 97 kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia. In 2021, he won the gold medal in his event at the Poland Open held in Warsaw, Poland.
Hadi Sarvi advanced to the semi-finals but lost to Artur Aleksanyan. He defeated Arvi Savolainen of Finland in his bronze medal match in the 97kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.
Sarvi in 2021 qualified for the Tokyo Olympics and won the gold medal in the Olympic qualifying tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan, defeating Mehdi Bali in the final.
He won one of the bronze medals in the 97kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia. He won the gold medal in the 97kg event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. He defeated Li Yiming of China in his gold medal match.
He won the gold medal at the 2024 Asian Wrestling Championships that without conceding a single point. Saravi entered his second Olympic competition at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. He won consecutive matches against Joe Rau (American), Uzur Dzhuzupbekov (Kyrgyzstan), Mohamed Gabr (Egyptian), the made it to the finals of the competition. He defeated Artur Aleksanyan 4-1 in the final match of the 97kg and won the gold medal. This was the first gold medal of the Iranian team in the 2024 Olympics.Saravi also became the fifth Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler to win an Olympics gold medal.
He won his second consecutive gold medal at the World Wrestling Championships in 2025 held in Zagreb, Croatia. Saravi at 2025 World Wrestling Championships faced Artur Sargsian in the final of the 2025 World Wrestling Championships, winning 3-1.
Achievements YearTournamentLocationResultEvent 2020Individual World CupBelgrade, Serbia 3rdGreco-Roman 97 kgAsian ChampionshipsNew Delhi, India 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2021Summer OlympicsTokyo, Japan 3rdGreco-Roman 97 kgWorld ChampionshipsOslo, Norway 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2022World ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia 3rdGreco-Roman 97 kg 2023World ChampionshipsBelgrade, Serbia 3rdGreco-Roman 97 kgAsian GamesHangzhou, China 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2024Asian ChampionshipsBishkek, Kyrgyzstan 1stGreco-Roman 97 kgSummer OlympicsParis, France 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2025World ChampionshipsZagreb, Croatia 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg
Under 23
YearTournamentLocationResultEvent 2019World U23 ChampionshipsBudapest, Hungary 3rdGreco-Roman 97 kgAsian U23 ChampionshipsUlaanbaatar, Mongolia 1stGreco-Roman 87 kg
Grand Prix
YearTournamentLocationResultEvent 2019Vehbi Emre & Hamit KaplanIstanbul, Turkey 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2019Grand Prix of V. Balavadze and G. KartoziaTbilisi, Georgia 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2021Poland OpenWarsaw, Poland 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2022Poland OpenWarsaw, Poland 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2023Ibrahim MoustafaAlexandria, Egypt 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2023Kaba Uulu Kozhomkul & Raatbek SanatbaevBishkek, Kyrgyzstan 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg 2024Polyák Imre & Varga János MemorialBudapest, Hungary 1stGreco-Roman 97 kg
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