Headercolor: | lightblue |
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 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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]