Nabi Sorouri
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| World championships | ||
| gold | 1957 Istanbul | 79 kg |
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| silver | 1958 Tokyo | 79 kg |
Nabi Sorouri ( Persian نبی سروری; born 1933 ; died 2002 ) was an Iranian freestyle wrestler . He was a participant in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne . At the Olympic Games in Melbourne Sorouri missed the medal ranks in welterweight (73 kg) and was fourth behind Wachtang Balawadze ( Soviet Union ), İbrahim Zengin ( Turkey ) and the winner in this discipline, Mitsuo Ikeda from ( Japan ).
Nabi Sorouri celebrated his greatest international success at the World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul in 1957 , when he prevailed against the wrestling greats Hasan Güngör from Turkey and Giorgi Schirtladse from the Soviet Union and won the gold medal in the middleweight division (79 kg).
Only a year later he managed to win another medal: at the Asian Games in Tokyo in 1958 , he won silver in the middleweight division.
He ended his career after a disappointing fifth place at the 1959 World Wrestling Championships , which took place in Tehran .
Web links
- Profile of Nabi Sorouri at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Nabi Sorouri in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Sorouri, Nabi |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Iranian wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1933 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 2002 |