Karim Raeisinia

Karim Raeisinia (Persian: کریم رئیسی‌نیا‎‎; born 1930 in Tehran) was an Iranian deaf Wrestler and Deaflympics Gold-Medalist. He has won 4 Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling deaflympics medals in 62–67 kg category of 1957 Milan and 1961 Helsinki, however, he was unable to gain a medal again in 73–79 kg category of 1965 Washington DC games due to injury and was ranked 4th in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman. He was a friend of Abolhassan Ilchi Kabir and Gholamreza Takhti. Mansour Raeisi is also his cousin.