{"id":6480,"date":"2012-08-05T16:12:54","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:12:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/?p=6480"},"modified":"2012-08-05T16:14:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-05T20:14:10","slug":"soryan-wins-irans-first-greco-roman-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/soryan-wins-irans-first-greco-roman-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Soryan wins Iran&#8217;s first Greco-Roman gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r.jpeg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6481\" title=\"Iran's Hamid Soryan Reihanpour celebrates his victory on the Men's 55Kg Greco-Roman wrestling at the ExCel venue during the London 2012 Olympic Games\" src=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/W3\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r-300x192.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" srcset=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r-300x192.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/r.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>(Reuters) &#8211; Iranian wrestler Hamid Soryan won his country&#8217;s first ever gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling on Sunday, defeating Azerbaijan&#8217;s Rovshan Bayramov in the 55kg final at the London Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The 26-year-old favorite brushed aside Bayramov, erasing memories of his shock defeat in the quarter-finals in Beijing four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian is a five-time world champion, but had never before won an Olympic medal in one of the world&#8217;s oldest sports. It was Iran&#8217;s first gold of the London Games.<\/p>\n<p>He comfortably won the final, taking the first two rounds without losing a point.<\/p>\n<p>Soryan had cruised into the gold medal final in the lightest weight category. He did not drop a point in his quarter-final bout with Hungary&#8217;s Peter Modos or in his semi-final clash with Haakan Nyblom of Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>It was the first of 18 medal events in the wrestling this week. Seven of those are in the Greco-Roman discipline, where competitors can only use their upper bodies and arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Iranian wrestler Hamid Soryan won his country&#8217;s first ever gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling on Sunday, defeating Azerbaijan&#8217;s Rovshan Bayramov in the 55kg final at the London Olympics. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/soryan-wins-irans-first-greco-roman-gold\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6480"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6480\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6480"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6480"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1001harf.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6480"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}