Karim Raeisinia
Iranian wrestler
- Born
- 1 January 1930, Tehran
- Died
- 2012
- Citizenship
- Iran
- Sport
- amateur wrestling
- Occupation
- amateur wrestler
Karim Raeisinia (Persian: کریم رئیسینیا; born 1 January 1930 in Tehran) is an Iranian deaf wrestler and a Deaflympics gold medalist. He won four 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 in the 73–79 kg category of the 1965 Washington DC games because of an 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.
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Facts from Wikidata Q6370642 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.
Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.