Sanan Suleymanov
{{short description|Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler}}
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{{Medal|Competition| World Championships }}
{{Medal|Silver| 2021 Oslo | 77 kg }}
{{Medal|Silver| 2023 Belgrade | 77 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| European Championships }}
{{Medal|Gold| 2020 Rome | 77 kg }}
{{Medal|Bronze| 2022 Budapest | 77 kg }}
{{Medal|Bronze| 2021 Warsaw | 77 kg }}
{{Medal|Competition| Islamic Solidarity Games }}
{{Medal|Silver| 2021 Konya | 77 kg }}
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{{MedalGold|2023 Budapest|77 kg}}
{{Medal|Competition| World U23 Championships }}
{{Medal|Silver| 2019 Budapest | 72 kg }}
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Sanan Suleymanov ({{langx|az|Sənan Süleymanov}}; born 15 December 1996){{Cite web |title=Wrestling Results Book |url=https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240811181048/https://olympics.com/OG2024/pdf/OG2024/WRE/OG2024_WRE_B99_WRE-------------------------------.pdf |archive-date=11 August 2024 |access-date=12 August 2024 |website=2024 Summer Olympics}} is an Azerbaijani Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the silver medal in the 77{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2021 World Wrestling Championships held in Oslo, Norway.{{Cite news |last=Burke |first=Patrick |date=8 October 2021 |title=Rafig Huseynov among winners of first Greco-Roman finals at UWW World Championships in Oslo |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1113977/rafig-huseynov-uww-world-wrestling |access-date=8 October 2021}}{{Cite web |title=2021 World Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/results_10_oslo.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211016114828/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-10/results_10_oslo.pdf |archive-date=16 October 2021 |access-date=16 October 2021 |website=United World Wrestling}} In 2020, he won the gold medal in the 77{{nbsp}}kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Rome, Italy.{{Cite news |last=Houston |first=Michael |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1090423/nazaryan-bulgaria-european-wrestling |title=Teenager Nazaryan wins Greco-Roman gold on day two of European Wrestling Championships |date=11 February 2020 |work=InsideTheGames.biz |access-date=11 February 2020}}{{Cite news |last=Kerimkhanov |first=Abdul |url=https://www.azernews.az/sports/161679.html |title=Azerbaijan wins 2020 European Wrestling Championship's gold |date=12 February 2020 |work=Azernews |access-date=13 February 2020}}{{Cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf |title=2020 European Wrestling Championships Results |website=United World Wrestling |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200412124934/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-02/eucs-rome-final-book_1.pdf |archive-date=12 April 2020 |access-date=12 April 2020}}
Career
Suleymanov competed in the 66{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2017 European Wrestling Championships held in Novi Sad, Serbia without winning a medal.{{Cite web |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/results_05_novisad_v2.pdf |title=2017 European Wrestling Championships Results |website=United World Wrestling |url-status=live |access-date=15 April 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201215230213/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2018-02/results_05_novisad_v2.pdf |archive-date=15 December 2020}} He won his first match against Parviz Nasibov of Ukraine but he was eliminated from the competition by Atakan Yüksel of Turkey.
In 2019, Suleymanov competed in the 72{{nbsp}}kg event at the World Wrestling Championships held in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan without winning a medal. At the 2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship held in Budapest, Hungary, he won the silver medal in the 72{{nbsp}}kg event.{{Cite news |last=Etchells |first=Daniel |date=3 November 2019 |title=Iran add third Greco-Roman gold medal to tally on last day of UWW Under-23 World Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1086631/iran-uww-under-23-world-championships |access-date=21 May 2020}}{{Cite web |title=2019 World U23 Wrestling Championship |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/u23_senior_world_championships_final-book.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191228051956/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/u23_senior_world_championships_final-book.pdf |archive-date=28 December 2019 |access-date=8 August 2020 |website=United World Wrestling}} In the final, he lost against Mohammad Reza Geraei of Iran. In 2020, Suleymanov competed in the men's 77{{nbsp}}kg event at the Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.{{Cite web |title=2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book |url=https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201218212337/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf |archive-date=18 December 2020 |access-date=18 December 2020 |website=United World Wrestling}}
In March 2021, Suleymanov competed at the European Qualification Tournament in Budapest, Hungary hoping to qualify for the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.{{Cite web |title=2021 European Wrestling Olympic Qualification Tournament Results Book |url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210324185322/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-03/final-book.pdf |archive-date=24 March 2021 |access-date=24 March 2021 |website=United World Wrestling}} In April 2021, he won one of the bronze medals in the 77{{nbsp}}kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Warsaw, Poland.{{Cite news |last=Shefferd |first=Neil |date=24 April 2021 |title=Russia claim two golds in men's Greco-Roman finals at European Wrestling Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1107067/russia-claim-brace-of-greco-roman-golds |access-date=24 April 2021}}{{Cite web |title=2021 European Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021_senior_european_championships.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210425200427/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-04/2021_senior_european_championships.pdf |archive-date=25 April 2021 |access-date=25 April 2021 |website=United World Wrestling}}
In 2022, Suleymanov won the silver medal in his event at the Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament held in Istanbul, Turkey.{{Cite web |title=2022 Yasar Dogu, Vehbi Emre & Hamit Kaplan Tournament Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-03/final-book-ranking-series-istambul-2022-light.pdf?VersionId=BMipbXFVxzXXeonWOfeVdKVeNlWlxYzt |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220302085143/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-03/final-book-ranking-series-istambul-2022-light.pdf?VersionId=BMipbXFVxzXXeonWOfeVdKVeNlWlxYzt |archive-date=2 March 2022 |access-date=2 March 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}} He won one of the bronze medals in the 77{{nbsp}}kg event at the European Wrestling Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.{{Cite news |last=Pavitt |first=Michael |date=2 April 2022 |title=Kayaalp continues Greco-Roman domination at European Wrestling Championships |work=InsideTheGames.biz |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1121384/kayaalp-european-wrestling-championships |access-date=2 April 2022}}{{Cite web |title=2022 European Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-04/2022_senior_european_championships_official_results.pdf?VersionId=KEoKJnjfNdVsB13voNEJO9gMUHnyIlq0 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220403191311/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-04/2022_senior_european_championships_official_results.pdf?VersionId=KEoKJnjfNdVsB13voNEJO9gMUHnyIlq0 |archive-date=3 April 2022 |access-date=3 April 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}} He won the silver medal in his event at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Konya, Turkey.{{Cite web |title=2021 Islamic Solidarity Games Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-08/results_08_konya.pdf?VersionId=XCsODGzAzjjRhgEoc5SPJ7BmwV3S65G1 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220818181226/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-08/results_08_konya.pdf?VersionId=XCsODGzAzjjRhgEoc5SPJ7BmwV3S65G1 |archive-date=18 August 2022 |access-date=20 August 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}}
Suleymanov competed in the 77{{nbsp}}kg event at the 2022 World Wrestling Championships held in Belgrade, Serbia where he was eliminated in his first match.{{Cite web |title=2022 World Wrestling Championships Results Book |url=https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220918183512/https://cdn.uww.org/s3fs-public/2022-09/final-book-2022-senior-world-championships_compressed.pdf?VersionId=zoTz_Ra8zK5EkVhfrZuDG5THXf4.3ik. |archive-date=18 September 2022 |access-date=18 September 2022 |website=United World Wrestling}}
He represented Azerbaijan at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, France.{{Cite web |title=SULEYMANOV Sanan |url=https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/sanan-suleymanov_1981775 |website=Olympics.com}} He lost his bronze medal match in the 77{{nbsp}}kg event at the Olympics.
Achievements
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!Year !Tournament !Venue !Result !Event |
| 2020
|Rome, Italy |align="center" bgcolor="gold" | 1st |
| rowspan=2 | 2021
|Warsaw, Poland |align="center" bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd |
| World Championships
|Oslo, Norway |align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd |
| rowspan=2 | 2022
|Budapest, Hungary |align="center" bgcolor="cc9966" | 3rd |
| Islamic Solidarity Games
|Konya, Turkey |align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd |Greco-Roman 77{{nbsp}}kg |
| 2023
|Belgrade, Serbia |align="center" bgcolor="silver" | 2nd |
References
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External links
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- [https://uww.org/athletes-results/sanan-suleymanov-21913-profile Sanan Suleymanov] at United World Wrestling
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- [https://olympics.com/en/paris-2024/athlete/sanan-suleymanov_1981775 Sanan Suleymanov] at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics
- {{Olympic.az|senan-suleymanov|Sənan Süleymanov}}
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Category:Azerbaijani male sport wrestlers
Category:European Wrestling Championships medalists
Category:World Wrestling Championships medalists
Category:European Wrestling Champions
Category:Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in wrestling
Category:21st-century Azerbaijani sportsmen
Category:Medalists at the 2021 Islamic Solidarity Games
Category:Islamic Solidarity Games silver medalists for Azerbaijan