Native Name: | Persian: حسین نوری |
Fullname: | Hossein Nouri |
Birth Date: | 4 August 1990 |
Birth Place: | Zanjan, Iran |
Height: | 1.80 m[1] |
Weight: | 87 kg |
Website: | Official Instagram Profile |
Sport: | Wrestling |
Event: | Greco-Roman |
Coach: | Ali Ashkani (national) Rezae Almasi (personal)[2] |
Coaching: | Mohammad Bana (national) |
Medaltemplates: | Men's Greco-Roman wrestling |
Hossein Nouri (Persian: حسین نوری, born 4 August 1990) is a professional Iranian wrestler of the Iranian national team. He has won the bronze medal of the World Championships, the gold medal of the Asian Games in 2018 and also 3 championship titles in the Asian Championships.
He won bronze medal 2017 Wrestling World Cup - Men's Greco-Roman.
Nouri was able to obtain a license to participate in the 2017 World Wrestling Championship by beating his rivals in the selection tests of the Iranian team. He won the first World Cup 7-5 against Ividas Stankovicius of Lithuania, and then finished third in Estonia with a score of 3-1 at Eric Ops, fifth in Europe, to reach the quarter-finals. At this stage, Nouri competed against Victor Lawrence, the 2014 world bronze medalist, the 2017 European champion and the fifth person of the Rio 2016 Olympics from Hungary, and won 6-4 and reached the semifinals. Nouri lost to Denis Kodella of Germany 4-1 in the semifinals. Nouri lost to Denis Kodella of Germany 4-1 in the semifinals and went on to compete against Islam Abbasov of Azerbaijan for a bronze medal in the qualifying match, winning the medal 4-0.
At the 2018 Asian Games in Incheon, Nouri defeated Turkmenistan's Shihaz Avilikov 3-4 and Yemen's Mohammad Al-Quhali 8-0 to compete for the gold medal, with Rustam Asakalov of Uzbekistan competing for the gold medal. Defeated 6–1 to win the Asian Games.
Nouri competed in the 87 kg category on April 27, 2019 as part of the Asian Championships. In defending the title, he first defeated Phi Peng of China 3-1, and then defeated Matsu III of Japan 4-2 in the second leg to advance to the semifinals. Nouri defeated Uzbekistan's Rostam Asakalov 3-0 in a close match to win the gold medal for the third year in a row, defeating India's Sunil Kumar 2-0 in the final.