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Hamid Sourian

{{short description|Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler}}

{{Infobox sportsperson

| headercolor = Gold

| name = Hamid Sourian

| image = Hamid Sourian 11.jpg

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| caption = Sourian in July 2022

| Nickname = 7 star General

| fullname = Hamid Sourian Reihanpour

| native_name = {{lang|fa|حمید سوریان ‌}}

| nickname = 7 Star General

| nationality = Iranian

| residence =

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1985|08|24|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Rey, Iran

| death_date =

| death_place =

| height = {{height|m=1.69|precision=0|abbr=on}}

| weight =

| website =

| country = Iran

| sport = Wrestling

| event = Greco-Roman

| collegeteam =

| club = Babak Rey Club

| team =

| turnedpro =

| coach = Abdollah Zare

| medaltemplates = {{MedalCountry|{{IRI}}}}

{{MedalSport | Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling}}

{{MedalCount | total = yes

| Olympic Games | 1 | 0 | 0

| World Championships | 6 | 0 | 0

| World Junior Championship | 1 | 0 | 0

| World Cup | 1 | 1 | 0

| Other | 6 | 1 | 2 |

}}

{{MedalSport|Men's Greco-Roman wrestling}}

{{MedalCountry|{{IRI}}}}

{{MedalCompetition |Olympic Games}}

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{{MedalGold|2012 London|55 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2005 Budapest|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2006 Guangzhou|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2007 Baku|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2009 Herning|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2010 Moscow|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2014 Tashkent|59 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|Grand Prix}}

{{MedalGold|2014 Szombathely|59 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2014 Gdansk|66 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2010 Tbilisi|60 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2007 Sofia|55 kg}}

{{MedalBronze|2006 Baku|55 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|World Junior Championship}}

{{MedalGold|2005 Vilnius|55 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|Asian Championships}}

{{MedalGold|2007 Bishkek|55 kg}}

{{MedalGold|2008 Jeju Island|55 kg}}

{{MedalCompetition|Asian Junior Championship}}

{{MedalGold|2005 Jeju Island|55 kg}}

{{MedalSilver|2004 Almaty|55 kg}}

}}

Hamid Sourian Reihanpour ({{langx|fa|حمید سوریان ریحان‌پور}}; born 24 August 1985) or Hamid Soryan is a retired Iranian wrestler. Sourian is 2012 Summer Olympic games gold medalist and six-time World Champion. He won both the Junior World Championships and Senior World Championships in 2005. He is also 2007 and 2008 Asian championships gold medalist.[http://www.london2012.com/athlete/soryan-reihanpour-hamid-mohammad-1077346/ Hamid Mohammad Soryan Reihanpour] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120827131431/http://www.london2012.com/athlete/soryan-reihanpour-hamid-mohammad-1077346/ |date=2012-08-27 }}

Summer Olympics 2008

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.{{cite web |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/12/sports/olywrest12.php |title=Nazyr Mankiev and Islam-Beka Albiev win gold for Russia - International Herald Tribune |website=www.iht.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080925160326/http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/12/sports/olywrest12.php |archive-date=2008-09-25}}

Summer Olympics 2012

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.{{cite web |url=http://kabirnews.com/london-2012-wrestling-irans-hamid-sourian-claimed-gold-medal-in-mens-55kg-greco-roman/2941/ |title=London 2012 Wrestling: Iran's Hamid Sourian Claimed Gold Medal in Men's 55kg Greco-Roman |publisher=Kabir News |access-date=2012-08-06 |archive-date=2013-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131112024343/http://kabirnews.com/london-2012-wrestling-irans-hamid-sourian-claimed-gold-medal-in-mens-55kg-greco-roman/2941/ |url-status=dead }}{{cite news|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/sports/london-olympics-2012/news/London-Olympics-Irans-Reihanpour-wins-Greco-Roman-55kg-wrestling-gold/articleshow/15367540.cms|title= London Olympics: Iran's Reihanpour wins Greco-Roman 55kg wrestling gold

|access-date=August 6, 2012 | work=The Times Of India}}

Summer Olympics 2016

After failing to qualify for the World Championship games and Continental Qualifier, on 3 May 2016 Sourian entered the second of the 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."{{cite web | url=https://www.instagram.com/p/BE-_6ICCMWI/ | title=Instagram }}

On May 7, Sourian finished first in the tournament and secured his ticket for Rio.{{Cite web|url=http://en.mehrnews.com/news/116371/Sourian-claims-gold-in-Istanbul-to-book-Olympic-spot|title=Sourian claims gold in Istanbul to book Olympic spot|date=7 May 2016}}

On the 14th of August, he was defeated by Shinobu Ota from Japan in the round of 32. Although leading by 4–0 in the first half of the bout, his energy quickly depleted in the second half and he was defeated by 5–6 in the end. His next match was against Almat Kebispayev from Kazakhstan in the repechage round. Again he was comfortably in the lead by 7–0 in the first half and then only needed one point for victory in the second, but his energy levels dropped towards the end and he lost the bout. This was his last appearance in Rio and his tournament was brought to a surprising end.{{cite web|title=Google|url=https://www.google.no/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=sourian+Rio&mie=oly%2C%5B%22%2Fg%2F11ckwbml04%22%2C7%2C%22o%22%2C1%2Cnull%2C%22%2Fx%2F3xzn2kr21s6w%22%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2Cnull%2C19%5D|website=www.google.no|access-date=15 August 2016}}

International competition record

File:Hamid Sourian at the 2016 Summer Olympics 02.jpg in Rio de Janeiro]]

class="wikitable" style="font-size:90%; width: 60%;"

!width=8%|Result

!width=15%|Round

!width=35%|Opponent

!width=15%|Score

colspan="4"|2005 World Championship / {{flagicon|HUN}} Budapest / {{gold1}} Gold medal / 55 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagathlete|Vugar Rahimov|UKR}}

|2–0 (4–3, 2–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagathlete|Bayram Özdemir|TUR}}

|2–0 (4–0, 3–2)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagathlete|Lázaro Rivas|CUB}}

|2–0 (2–1, 7–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Semifinals

|{{flagathlete|Yermek Kuketov|KAZ}}

|DSQ (3–0, 5–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Final

|{{flagathlete|Park Eun-chul|KOR|1997}}

|2–0 (2–1, 4–3)

colspan="4"|2006 World Championship / {{flagicon|CHN}} Guangzhou / {{gold1}} Gold medal / 55 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagathlete|Vicente Lillo|ESP}}

|2–0 (6–0, 7–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagathlete|Vugar Rahimov|UKR}}

|2–0 (7–2, 2–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagathlete|Venelin Venkov|BUL}}

|2–0 (8–2, 4–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Semifinals

|{{flagathlete|Lindsey Durlacher|USA}}

|2–0 (5–3, 3–2)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Final

|{{flagathlete|Rovshan Bayramov|AZE}}

|2–0 (3–0, 3–0)

colspan="4"|2007 World Championship / {{flagicon|AZE}} Baku / {{gold1}} Gold medal / 55 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 64

|{{flagathlete|Shane Parker|AUS}}

|2–0 (5–0, 8–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagathlete|Anders Nyblom|DEN}}

|2–0 (2–1, 4–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagathlete|Lindsey Durlacher|USA}}

|DSQ (4–0, 6–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagathlete|Virgil Munteanu|ROU}}

|2–0 (4–3, 2–2)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Semifinals

|{{flagathlete|Kristijan Fris|SRB|2004}}

|2–0 (3–0, 1–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Final

|{{flagathlete|Park Eun-chul|KOR|1997}}

|DSQ (1–1, 3–0, 4–0)

colspan="4"|2008 Summer Olympics / {{flagicon|CHN}} Beijing / 5th place / 55 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagIOCathlete|Venelin Venkov|BUL|2008 Summer}}

|Fall (4–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagIOCathlete|Elgin Loren Elwais|PLW|2008 Summer}}

|2–0 (8–0, 6–0)

{{no2}}Loss

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagIOCathlete|Nazyr Mankiev|RUS|2008 Summer}}

|1–2 (2–2, 1–1, 1–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Repechage

|{{flagIOCathlete|Kristijan Fris|SRB|2008 Summer}}

|2–0 (5–0, 1–1)

{{no2}}Loss

|align=center|Bronze medal match

|{{flagIOCathlete|Park Eun-chul|KOR|2008 Summer}}

|0–2 (1–1, 2–2)

colspan="4"|2009 World Championship / {{flagicon|DEN}} Herning / {{gold1}} Gold medal / 55 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagathlete|Joaquín Martínez|ESP}}

|2–0 (7–0, 3–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagathlete|Spenser Mango|USA}}

|2–0 (1–0, 6–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagathlete|Erhan Karakuş|TUR}}

|2–0 (1–0, 1–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Semifinals

|{{flagathlete|Håkan Nyblom|DEN}}

|2–0 (1–0, 6–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Final

|{{flagathlete|Roman Amoyan|ARM}}

|2–0 (5–0, 1–0)

colspan="4"|2010 World Championship / {{flagicon|RUS}} Moscow / {{gold1}} Gold medal / 55 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagathlete|Mohammed Bouterfessa|ALG}}

|2–0 (5–0, 1–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagathlete|Venelin Venkov|BUL}}

|2–0 (2–0, 2–2)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagathlete|Jani Haapamäki|FIN}}

|2–0 (2–0, 1–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Semifinals

|{{flagathlete|Roman Amoyan|ARM}}

|2–0 (1–0, 2–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Final

|{{flagathlete|Choi Gyu-jin|KOR|1997}}

|2–1 (4–0, 0–3, 1–0)

colspan="4"|2012 Summer Olympics / {{flagicon|GBR}} London / {{gold1}} Gold medal / 55 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagIOCathlete|Arsen Eraliev|KGZ|2012 Summer}}

|2–1 (4–0, 0–2, 2–1)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagIOCathlete|Péter Módos|HUN|2012 Summer}}

|2–0 (2–0, 1–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Semifinals

|{{flagIOCathlete|Håkan Nyblom|DEN|2012 Summer}}

|2–0 (3–0, 3–0)

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Final

|{{flagIOCathlete|Rovshan Bayramov|AZE|2012 Summer}}

|2–0 (2–0, 1–0)

colspan="4"|2014 World Championship / {{flagicon|UZB}} Tashkent / {{gold1}} Gold medal / 59 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 64

|{{flagathlete|Alex Anechitei|ROU}}

|8–0

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagathlete|Haithem Mahmoud|EGY}}

|2–1

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagathlete|Ismael Borrero|CUB}}

|5–0

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagathlete|Taleh Mammadov|AZE}}

|3–0

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Semifinals

|{{flagathlete|Elmurat Tasmuradov|UZB}}

|2–1

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Final

|{{flagathlete|Mingiyan Semenov|RUS}}

|2–1

colspan="4"|2015 World Championship / {{flagicon|USA}} Las Vegas / 7th place / 59 kg
{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagathlete|Raiber Rodríguez|VEN}}

|8–0

{{yes2}}Win

|align=center|Round of 16

|{{flagathlete|Jani Haapamäki|FIN}}

|5–0, Fall

{{no2}}Loss

|align=center|Quarterfinals

|{{flagathlete|Rovshan Bayramov|AZE}}

|0–2, DSQ

{{no2}}Loss

|align=center|Repechage

|{{flagathlete|Yun Won-chol|PRK}}

|5–6

colspan="4"|2016 Summer Olympics / {{flagicon|BRA}} Rio de Janeiro / 11th place / 59 kg
{{no2}}Loss

|align=center|Round of 32

|{{flagIOCathlete|Shinobu Ota|JPN|2016 Summer}}

|4–5

{{no2}}Loss

|align=center|Repechage

|{{flagIOCathlete|Almat Kebispayev|KAZ|2016 Summer}}

|7–6, Fall

See also

References

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before=Morad Mohammadi
Ehsan Haddadi|

title=Iran Sportsperson of the year|

years=2007|

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Category:1985 births

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Category:Sportspeople from Ray, Iran

Category:Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch alumni

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Category:Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics

Category:Wrestlers at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Category:Olympic gold medalists for Iran

Category:Olympic medalists in wrestling

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Category:Wrestlers at the 2010 Asian Games

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