Mirsamad Pourseyedi

Mirsamad Pourseyedi
	Mirsamad Pourseyedi (2016)
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Date of birth	October 15, 1985
nation	Iran
discipline	Street
	Last updated: August 1st, 2018

Mirsamad Pourseyedi ( Persian صمد پورسیدی Samad Pourseyedi ; Born October 15, 1985 ) is an Iranian cyclist . Since the end of the 2000s he has been one of the strongest cyclists in Asia .

Athletic career

Pourseyedi won the fourth stage of the Taftan Tour in 2007 and he achieved further stage placements in the top ten at the Azerbaijan Tour and the Tour of Milad du Nour . In the overall ranking of the UCI Asia Tour 2007 , he finished 20th. However, his 2011 Tour of Turkey doping test positive for EPO and he was banned for two years.

In 2013 Pourseyedi went to the local Continental Team Tabriz Petrochemical Team to continue his sporting career. His initially most successful year was 2014 when he won three tours - the Tour de Langkawi , the Tour of Japan and the Tour of Fuzhou - and won the overall ranking of the UCI Asia Tour . In the following year, too, he achieved three victories in tours, the Tour de Taiwan , the Tour of Japan and Iran, whereby he again won the overall ranking of the Asia Tour . In 2016 he won the Tour of Iran again, in 2017 and 2018 he became national champion in the individual time trial . In 2018 he also finished second in the team time trial at the Asian Championships on the road with the Iranian national team .