Mohammad Reza Geraei

In 2019, he won the gold medal in the 72 kg event at the 2019 Asian Wrestling Championships held in Xi'an, China.^[6] At the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary, he won the gold medal in the men's 72 kg event.^[7][8] In the final, he defeated Sanan Suleymanov of Azerbaijan. In the same year, he also won the silver medal in the 77 kg event at the 2019 Asian U23 Wrestling Championship held in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia.^[9] At the 2021 Asian Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament held in Almaty, Kazakhstan, he won the gold medal in the men's 67 kg. He qualified for the Tokyo Olympics by winning the semi-finals.

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.

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.

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.

His older brother Mohammadali Geraei also competes in the Greco-Roman wrestling.^{[citation needed]}

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."^[10]