First Iranian Gold Medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling after 40 Years in Olympics 2012

Approximately everybody knows that Iranians are very good wrestling around the world. History of wrestling came back to 2500 years ago in ancient Iran or Persia. There are many ancient epic poetry which point to this truth (Shahnameh). In fact wrestling was one of Persian war skills. When they loose they spear and sword. They fought in this way. There are many different type of wrestling in different parts of Iran. Actually Iran is one of origins of wrestling in the world . For many years Iranians have been number one in freestyle wrestling in the world. Freestyle is one of their traditional style and they are sophisticated in it. However, in Greg-Roman style they are not very well-known.

 First time around forty years ago Babajan Zadeh won golden medal in Olympic Games. After that Iran did not have outstanding champion in this style of wrestling till around five years ago that Hamid Sourian shined in this style for Iranians. He is wrestling in 55Kg. Despite his capabilities in Beijing Olympic Games he lost Gold medal. Maybe he was very young (21 years old) and did not have enough experts to manage his wrestling well. During these years he did not stop and tried hardly. In wrestling world cups he gained championship five times sequentially. WoW he should have ironic will and working hard to keep these titles. Yesterday, eventually he reached the honor who was seeking for. He defeated different opponents from Kyrgyzstan, Hungry, and Denmark to reach the final game. The final game holed between him and Roshan Bayramov from Azerbaijan.In the first round he take Bayromove on the clinch and gained two worthy points. In the second round one point was added to his points and finally the narrator proclaimed Sourian is the greatest. Sourian celebrated his gold medal with a nice balance on the wrestling circle like a professional gymnast. As a Iranian I really proud of him. 

Now Iran in Olympic contest table has one Gold medal by Sourian and one Bronze from weightlifting by Kianush Rostami. At the moment Iran is in 39 step in Olympics 2012. I am quite sure that Iran ranking will promote very soon. Most chances of Iranians in winning Gold in Olympics 2012 are in freestyle wrestling, Taekwondo, heavy weightlifting.