# Hamid Sourian

Hamid Sourian Reihanpour (Persian: 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.

## 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.

## 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.

## 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."
On May 7, Sourian finished first in the tournament and secured his ticket for Rio.
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.

## International competition record

| Result | Round | Opponent | Score |
| 2005 World Championship / Budapest / Gold medal / 55 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 32 | Vugar Rahimov (UKR) | 2–0 (4–3, 2–1) |
| Win | Round of 16 | Bayram Özdemir (TUR) | 2–0 (4–0, 3–2) |
| Win | Quarterfinals | Lázaro Rivas (CUB) | 2–0 (2–1, 7–1) |
| Win | Semifinals | Yermek Kuketov (KAZ) | DSQ (3–0, 5–0) |
| Win | Final | Park Eun-chul (KOR) | 2–0 (2–1, 4–3) |
| 2006 World Championship / Guangzhou / Gold medal / 55 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 32 | Vicente Lillo (ESP) | 2–0 (6–0, 7–0) |
| Win | Round of 16 | Vugar Rahimov (UKR) | 2–0 (7–2, 2–1) |
| Win | Quarterfinals | Venelin Venkov (BUL) | 2–0 (8–2, 4–0) |
| Win | Semifinals | Lindsey Durlacher (USA) | 2–0 (5–3, 3–2) |
| Win | Final | Rovshan Bayramov (AZE) | 2–0 (3–0, 3–0) |
| 2007 World Championship / Baku / Gold medal / 55 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 64 | Shane Parker (AUS) | 2–0 (5–0, 8–1) |
| Win | Round of 32 | Anders Nyblom (DEN) | 2–0 (2–1, 4–0) |
| Win | Round of 16 | Lindsey Durlacher (USA) | DSQ (4–0, 6–0) |
| Win | Quarterfinals | Virgil Munteanu (ROU) | 2–0 (4–3, 2–2) |
| Win | Semifinals | Kristijan Fris (SRB) | 2–0 (3–0, 1–1) |
| Win | Final | Park Eun-chul (KOR) | DSQ (1–1, 3–0, 4–0) |
| 2008 Summer Olympics / Beijing / 5th place / 55 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 32 | Venelin Venkov (BUL) | Fall (4–0) |
| Win | Round of 16 | Elgin Loren Elwais (PLW) | 2–0 (8–0, 6–0) |
| Loss | Quarterfinals | Nazyr Mankiev (RUS) | 1–2 (2–2, 1–1, 1–1) |
| Win | Repechage | Kristijan Fris (SRB) | 2–0 (5–0, 1–1) |
| Loss | Bronze medal match | Park Eun-chul (KOR) | 0–2 (1–1, 2–2) |
| 2009 World Championship / Herning / Gold medal / 55 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 32 | Joaquín Martínez (ESP) | 2–0 (7–0, 3–0) |
| Win | Round of 16 | Spenser Mango (USA) | 2–0 (1–0, 6–0) |
| Win | Quarterfinals | Erhan Karakuş (TUR) | 2–0 (1–0, 1–0) |
| Win | Semifinals | Håkan Nyblom (DEN) | 2–0 (1–0, 6–0) |
| Win | Final | Roman Amoyan (ARM) | 2–0 (5–0, 1–0) |
| 2010 World Championship / Moscow / Gold medal / 55 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 32 | Mohammed Bouterfessa (ALG) | 2–0 (5–0, 1–0) |
| Win | Round of 16 | Venelin Venkov (BUL) | 2–0 (2–0, 2–2) |
| Win | Quarterfinals | Jani Haapamäki (FIN) | 2–0 (2–0, 1–1) |
| Win | Semifinals | Roman Amoyan (ARM) | 2–0 (1–0, 2–0) |
| Win | Final | Choi Gyu-jin (KOR) | 2–1 (4–0, 0–3, 1–0) |
| 2012 Summer Olympics / London / Gold medal / 55 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 16 | Arsen Eraliev (KGZ) | 2–1 (4–0, 0–2, 2–1) |
| Win | Quarterfinals | Péter Módos (HUN) | 2–0 (2–0, 1–0) |
| Win | Semifinals | Håkan Nyblom (DEN) | 2–0 (3–0, 3–0) |
| Win | Final | Rovshan Bayramov (AZE) | 2–0 (2–0, 1–0) |
| 2014 World Championship / Tashkent / Gold medal / 59 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 64 | Alex Anechitei (ROU) | 8–0 |
| Win | Round of 32 | Haithem Mahmoud (EGY) | 2–1 |
| Win | Round of 16 | Ismael Borrero (CUB) | 5–0 |
| Win | Quarterfinals | Taleh Mammadov (AZE) | 3–0 |
| Win | Semifinals | Elmurat Tasmuradov (UZB) | 2–1 |
| Win | Final | Mingiyan Semenov (RUS) | 2–1 |
| 2015 World Championship / Las Vegas / 7th place / 59 kg ||||
| Win | Round of 32 | Raiber Rodríguez (VEN) | 8–0 |
| Win | Round of 16 | Jani Haapamäki (FIN) | 5–0, Fall |
| Loss | Quarterfinals | Rovshan Bayramov (AZE) | 0–2, DSQ |
| Loss | Repechage | Yun Won-chol (PRK) | 5–6 |
| 2016 Summer Olympics / Rio de Janeiro / 11th place / 59 kg ||||
| Loss | Round of 32 | Shinobu Ota (JPN) | 4–5 |
| Loss | Repechage | Almat Kebispayev (KAZ) | 7–6, Fall |