Hassan Shahsavan Explained

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Hassan Shahsavan
Residence:North Parramatta, New South
Wales
, Australia[1]
Birth Date:30 December 1975
Birth Place:Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Weight:740NaN0
Sport:Wrestling
Event:Greco-Roman
Club:Hornsby PCYC
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Hassan Shahsavan (born 30 December 1975 in Tehran, Iran) is an amateur Iranian-born Australian Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's middleweight category.[2] He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.[3]

Shahsavan initially selected as a member of the Iranian wrestling team for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, but did not compete. He moved to Australia a year later, and eventually received a citizenship one week too late to qualify for the Australian team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[4]

Shahsavan represented his adopted nation Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 74 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to Kazakhstan's Roman Melyoshin, with a three-set technical score (0–3, 2–1, 0–5), and a classification point score of 1–3.[5]

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Notes and References

  1. News: Morton. Jim. Hassan's fortunes due to change. Sydney Morning Herald. 24 January 2012. 29 January 2013.
  2. Hassan Shahsavan. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418110314/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/sh/hassan-shahsavan-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. 29 January 2013.
  3. News: Hassan Shahsavan wrestles his way to bronze medal. The Sun-Herald. 5 October 2010. 29 January 2013.
  4. News: Third-time lucky for wrestler Hassan Shahsavan. The Daily Telegraph (Sydney). 12 August 2008. 29 January 2013.
  5. Web site: Men's Greco-Roman 74kg (163 lbs) Round of 16 Final Official. https://web.archive.org/web/20120517055218/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/wrestling/resultsandschedules/rsc=WRM174403/index.html. dead. 17 May 2012. NBC Olympics. 29 January 2013.