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Hamid Sourian

Hamid Sourian
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Sourian in July 2016
Personal information
Native name حمید سوریان ریحان‌پور
Full name Hamid Sourian Reihanpour
Nationality Iranian
Born (1985-08-24) 24 August 1985 (age 31)
Rey, Iran
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6 12 in)
Weight 59 kg (130 lb)
Website Official Instagram Profile
Sport
Country Iran
Sport Wrestling
Event(s) Greco-Roman
Club Babak Rey
Coached by Abdullah Zareh

Hamid Sourian Reihanpour (Persian: حمید سوریان ریحان‌پور‎‎, born 24 August 1985) is an Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a six-time World Champion. Sourian won both the Junior World Championships and Senior World Championships in 2005. He is also 2007 and 2008 Asian gold medalist. Sourian won the gold medal in the 55 kg Greco-Roman competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics.

He is titled the "genius" (نابغه).

Sourian was a strong favorite to win the gold medal at 55 kg in the 2008 Beijing Olympics, but was upset in the quarterfinals by eventual gold medalist Nazyr Mankiev of Russia. Sourian was defeated in the bronze medal match by South Korea's Park Eun-Chul, Sourian had beaten Park in two different world championship finals prior to this Bronze medal match. In both his losses, he lost on tie-breaker criteria.

On 5 August 2012, he won his country's first ever gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, defeating Azerbaijan's Rovshan Bayramov in the 55 kg final.

After failing to qualify in World Championship and Continental Qualifier On 3 May 2016 Sourian attend the second of two worldwide qualification tournaments for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Turkey after failing to overcome Ivo Angelov from Bulgaria in Mongolia.

On May 5, Aleksandr Karelin posted a photo of Sourian on his Instagram page, wishing him success by writing: "You are the best and I wish you the best in the last 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament. Believe you can and you will."


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