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gold medalist and six-time World Champion. He won both the Junior World Championships and Senior World Championships in 2005. He is also

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and 2008 Asian championships gold medalist.

Summer Olympics 2008

Sourian was a strong favorite to win the gold medal at 55 kg in the

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, but was upset in the quarterfinals by eventual gold medalist

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of Russia. Sourian was defeated in the bronze medal match by South Korea's Park Eun-Chul, Sourian had beaten Park in two different world championship finals prior to this Bronze medal match. In both his losses, he lost on tie-breaker criteria.

Summer Olympics 2012

On 5 August 2012, he won his country's first ever gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, defeating Azerbaijan's

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in the 55 kg final.

Summer Olympics 2016

After failing to qualify for the World Championship games and Continental Qualifier, on 3 May 2016 Sourian entered the second of the two worldwide qualification tournaments for the

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after failing to overcome

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from

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. On May 5,

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posted a photo of Sourian on his

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page, wishing him success by writing: "You are the ''best'' and I wish you the ''best'' in the last 2016 Olympic Qualification Tournament. Believe you can and you will." On May 7, Sourian finished first in the tournament and secured his ticket for Rio. On the 14th of August, he was defeated by

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from Japan in the round of 32. Although leading by 4–0 in the first half of the bout, his energy quickly depleted in the second half and he was defeated by 5–6 in the end. His next match was against

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from Kazakhstan in the repechage round. Again he was comfortably in the lead by 7–0 in the first half and then only needed one point for victory in the second, but his energy levels dropped towards the end and he lost the bout. This was his last appearance in Rio and his tournament was brought to a surprising end.

International competition record

Hamid Sourian at the 2016 Summer Olympics 02

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