Read the following passage and then answer the questions as required.
Gholamreza Takhti was born on August 27, 1930 in Tehran and raised in poor circumstances.
He trained in a makeshift sports hall until he left Tehran to work as an oil worker. After being
drafted into the army, he was introduced to freestyle wrestling. He won his first Iranian
Championship in 1950 and became the first Iranian wrestler to win an international medal
when he gained a silver medal in the World Championships at Helsinki in 1951, followed by
silver at the Helsinki Olympics.
Takhti started as a middleweight wrestler. In the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and when he was
only 22 years old, he managed to win the silver medal in the 79 kg weight category. 4 years
later and in Melbourne, he went on better and along with the other great Iranian wrestler,
Emamali Habibi, became the first Olympic gold winner for his country. This was achieved in
the 87 kg weight category. He won gold in the 1959 Tehran World Championships and later he
participated in World Championships of Yokohama (Japan) and Toledo (Ohio, USA) and
respectively won gold and silver medals.
As he was getting heavier, he decided to move up to the next weight, 97 kg, for the Tokyo
Olympics in 1964. But this proved to be a hard competition for the great champion. He
competed unsuccessfully at the Tokyo Olympics and 1966 World Championships due to his
being chosen for adverse political reasons. Although he had retired from competition, the
government of the time attempted to discredit him in the eyes of the people with whom he was
extremely popular, particularly from an anti-government stance. Though he lost in the last two
competitions his popularity was not diminished.
The late Gholamreza Takhti is the highest ranked Iranian wrestler in history of Iranian
wrestling. With one gold (1956 Melbourne) and two silver medals (1952 Helsinki, 1960 Rome)
in Olympic Games, and two gold (1959 of Tehran, 1961 of Yokohama) and again two silver
medals (1951 of Helsinky, 1962 of Toledo) in World Championships, the legendary Takhti is
the most celebrated wrestler in Iranian wrestling.
1. Takhti won a silver medal in World Championships of Toledo (Ohio, USA).
a. True b. False
2. Takhti won …………. medals in Olympic Games.
a. five b. six c. two d. three
3. Did Takhti win a gold medal at the Helsinki Olympics?......................
4."…………………………………………………?" "He was born on August27,1930."
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