fullname coach club birth_place weight height birth_date article_title name style
parviz zeidvand gholamreza ghetassi rahahan wrestling club khorramshahr , iran 66 kg lb 0 on 1.72 0 on 16 august 1980 parviz zeidvand
 parviz zeidvand greco-roman
parviz zeidvand

parviz zeidvand -lrb- ; born august 16 , 1980 in khorramshahr -rrb- is a retired amateur iranian greco-roman wrestler , who competed in the men 's welterweight category .
he won two gold medals at the asian championships -lrb- 2001 and 2003 -rrb- , picked up a bronze in the 74-kg division at the 2002 asian games in busan , south korea , and represented iran in two editions of the olympic games -lrb- 2000 and 2004 -rrb- .
throughout his sporting career , zeidvand trained full-time for rahahan wrestling club under his coach and mentor gholamreza ghetassi .
zeidvand made his official debut at the 2000 summer olympics in sydney , where he competed in the men 's welterweight category -lrb- 69 kg -rrb- .
he lost two straight matches each to azerbaijan 's islam dugushiev -lrb- 5 -- 0 -rrb- and finland 's juha lappalainen -lrb- 2 -- 1 -rrb- , leaving him on the bottom of the prelim pool and placing sixteenth in the final standings .
after his first olympics , zeidvand proved particularly successful in his career with two gold medals in both 66 and 69-kg division at the asian championships -lrb- 2001 and 2003 -rrb- .
fighting at five pounds heavier than in his early 2000s , zeidvand picked up a bronze over uzbek wrestler and 2000 olympian ruslan biktyakov in the men 's 74 kg category at the 2002 asian games in busan , south korea .
at the 2004 summer olympics in athens , zeidvand qualified for his second iranian squad , as a 24-year-old , in the men 's 66 kg class .
earlier in the process , he finished second at the olympic qualification tournament in novi sad , serbia and montenegro to guarantee his spot on the iranian wrestling team .
redeeming from his previous olympic setback , zeidvand dominated the prelim pool with two powerful verdicts over kyrgyzstan 's kanatbek begaliev -lrb- 5 -- 0 -rrb- and spain 's moisés sánchez -lrb- 3 -- 1 -rrb- to secure his place for the next round .
zeidvand kept his iranian squad wrecking with a grueling 2 -- 1 defeat to azerbaijan 's farid mansurov in the quarterfinal match .
for refusing to appear in the fifth-place match , zeidvand , along with reigning olympic silver medalist kim in-sub of south korea , were disqualified from the tournament and thereby received a lifetime ban from the sport by the international federation of associated wrestling -lrb- fila -rrb- .
