Hassan Shahsavan
Australian wrestler
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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.[1] He won a bronze medal for his division at the 2010 Commonwealth Games in New Delhi, India.[2]
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2010 Commonwealth Games-Delhi - Sanjay Kumar , Richard Brain and Hassan Shahsaval | |||||||||||||||
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| Nationality |  Australia | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 30 December 1975 | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 74 kg (163 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Event | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||
| Club | Hornsby PCYC | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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.[3]
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.[4]
