Saman Tahmasebi

Saman Tahmasebi medal table
Wrestling
Iran (until 2010) Azerbaijan
Wrestling World Championships
silver	2013 Budapest	84 kg
bronze	2007 Baku	84 kg
bronze	2006 Guangzhou	84 kg
Asian Championship
gold	2007 Bishkek	84 kg

Hassan Saman Tahmasebi , Azerbaijani Saman Təhmasibi (born July 26, 1985 in Sanandadsch , Kordestān , Iran ) is an Iranian or Azerbaijani wrestler of Kurdish origin. He won at the World Wrestling Championships in 2006 ( Guangzhou ) and 2007 ( Baku ) in the middleweight division in the style Roman Greek the bronze medal .

Career

Hassan Saman Tahmasebi only started wrestling at the age of 17 in 2002. He became a member of the sports club Takhti Sanadarash (Gholam Reza Takhti was the first Iranian world champion in wrestling). He concentrated on the Greco-Roman style and always started as an adult in the middleweight division, the weight class up to 84 kg body weight. He studied sport and was or is mainly trained by Janshid Heirabadi and, after moving to Azerbaijan in 2011, by Farid Mansurov .

Right at his first start at an international championship, the 2006 World Cup in Guangzhou, he won with wins over Jose Antonio Arias Pareses, Dominican Republic, Kim Jung-sub , South Korea, a defeat against Nazmi Avluca , Turkey and wins over Jake Clark, United States and Kim-Jussi Nurmela , Finland a world championship bronze medal. At the Asian Games in Doha in 2006, he did not do nearly as well. He came there to a victory over Manoj Kumar from India, but lost in his next fight against Janarbek Kenjeew from Kyrgyzstan, which he ended up in 9th place.

In May 2007 Hassan Saman Tahmasebi was the winner of the Asian Games in Bishkek, ahead of Cho Hyun-chul, South Korea and Janarbek Kenjeew. At the 2007 World Cup in Baku he was also very successful again, winning there with victories over Shingo Matsumoto, Japan, Nenad Žugaj , Croatia and Yunior Estrada Falcon , Cuba, a defeat against Bradley Vering , United States and further victories over Jan Fischer , Germany and Kim Jung-sub again a world championship bronze medal.

In 2008 he started at the Olympic Games in Beijing. He won there in his first fight against Oleksandr Darahan from Ukraine, but then lost to Nazmi Avluca. Since this did not reach the final, he was eliminated and only came in 11th place.

In 2009 Hassan Saman Tahmasebi did not play any international championships.

In February 2010 he started at the Yadegar-Iman-Cup in Qom for Iran and took 3rd place there. After that he left Iran, moved to Azerbaijan and there very quickly received the Azerbaijani citizenship. So fast that he was able to start at the World Cup in Moscow in September 2010. He won there first over Dejan Sernek from Slovenia, but lost in his second fight against Damian Janikowski from Poland and only reached 19th place.

At the 2011 European Championships in Dortmund he lost to Jan Fischer and was eliminated with this defeat. He finished 15th. He did much better at the 2011 World Cup in Istanbul. There he defeated Manoj Kumar and Haykel Achouri, Tunisia, lost to Alim Selimow , won over Nenad Zugaj and Janarbek Kenjeew and finally lost the decisive fight for a World Cup bronze medal against Rami Hietaniemi from Finland. With 5th place, however, he had won the right to start at the 2012 Olympic Games in London.

Hassan Saman Tahmasebi also missed a medal at the 2012 European Championships in Belgrade. He came in 8th place there. At the Olympic Games in London, where he participated for Azerbaijan, he lost to Vladimir Gegeschidze from Georgia and then retired because Gegeschidze did not reach the final. He finished 11th.

At the 2013 European Championships in Tbilisi, he lost his first fight against Alexei Mishin, the multiple world champion from Russia. Then he defeated Dorin Constantin Pirvan from Romania and Fisnik Zahiti from Sweden. But he lost the fight for a bronze medal against Nenad Žugaj from Croatia. At the World Championships in Budapest in September 2013 he had another great success. He defeated in the middleweight division Eugen Ponomartschuk from Germany, Viktor Lörincz from Hungary, Giorgi Zirekidse from Georgia and Rami Hietaniemi from Finland. So he faced his former Iranian teammate Taleb Nariman Nematpour in the final battle . He lost this fight just 3: 5 points and therefore became vice world champion.

Note: Hassan Saman Tahmasebi is not identical to the Iranian wrestler Hassan Tahmasebi, who started as a lightweight freestyle wrestler (weight class up to 66 kg body weight).

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
2006	3.	World Cup in Guangzhou	medium	after victories over Jose Antonio Arias Paredes, Dom. Rep. And Kim Jung-sub, South Korea, one defeat against Nazmi Avluca, Turkey and wins against Jake Clark, USA and Kim-Jussi Nurmela, Finland
2006	9.	Asia Games in Doha	medium	after defeating Manoj Kumar, India and losing to Janarbek Kenjeew, Kyrgyzstan
2007	1.	Asian Championship in Bishkek	medium	before Cho Hyun-chul, South Korea and Janarbek Kenjeew
2007	10.	Dan Kolow & Nikola Petrow Memorial in Sofia	medium	Winner: Taleb Nariman Nematpour , Iran
2007	3.	Wladyslaw Pytlasinski Memorial in Warsaw	medium	behind Kim Jung-sub and Sándor Bárdosi , Hungary
2007	3.	World Cup in Baku	medium	after victories over Shingo Matsumoto, Japan, Nenad Zugaj, Croatia and Yunior Estrada Falcon, Cuba, a defeat against Bradley Vering, USA and victories over Jan Fischer, Germany and Kim Jung-sub
2008	11.	OS in Beijing	medium	after beating Oleksandr Darahan, Ukraine and losing to Nazmi Avluca, Turkey
2010	3.	Yadegar Imam Cup in Qom	medium	behind Chadorchi Davod Abedinzadeh and Davood Aliaschraf Achbari, both Iran
2010	19th	World Cup in Moscow	medium	after a win over Dejan Sernek, Slovenia and a loss against Damian Janikowski, Poland
2011	1.	Vehbi Emre Memorial in Istanbul	medium	before Nenad Zugaj and Wassyl Ratschyba , Ukraine
2011	2.	World Cup in Minsk	medium	behind Taleb Nariman Nematpour, in front of Alim Selimow, Belarus and Alan Chugajew , Russia
2011	15th	EM in Dortmund	medium	after a loss to Jan Fischer
2011	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	medium	behind Habibollah Jomeh Achlaghi, Iran, in front of Davood Aliaschraf Achbari, Iran and Ahmet Yildirim, Turkey
2011	5.	World Cup in Istanbul	medium	after victories over Manoj Kumar and Haykel Achouri, Tunisia, a defeat against Alim Selimow, victories over Nenad Zugaj and Janarbek Kenjeew and a defeat against Rami Hietaniemi, Finland
2011	1.	FILA test tournament in London	medium	before Wassyl Ratschyba, Ukraine, Andrea Minguzzi , Italy and Christoffer Ljungbeck, Sweden
2012	8th.	EM in Belgrade	medium	Winner: Christo Marinow , Bulgaria ahead of Damian Janikowski, Schan Belenjuk , Ukraine and Viktor Lörincz , Hungary
2012	5.	World Cup in Saransk	medium	Winner: Taleb Nariman Nematpour ahead of Laszlo Antunovics, Hungary
2012	11.	OS in London	medium	after a loss to Vladimir Gegeschidze, Georgia
2013	12.	World Cup in Tehran	Semi-difficult	Winner: Sargis Tonojan, Armenia ahead of Cenk İldem , Turkey
2013	5.	EM in Tbilisi	medium	after a defeat against Alexei Mischin, Russia, victories over Dorin Constantin Pirvan, Romania and Fisnik Zahiti, Sweden and a defeat against Nenaqd Zugaj, Croatia
2013	1.	Spanish Grand Prix in Madrid	medium	before Pedro Jacinto Garcia Perez, Spain and Rasmus Tjoerstad, Norway
2013	2.	World Cup in Budapest	medium	after victories over Eugen Ponomartschuk, Germany, Viktor Lörincz, Hungary, Giorgi Zirekidse, Georgia and Rami Hietaniemi, Finland and a defeat against Taleb Nariman Nematpour, Iran
2013	1.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	medium	before Jim Eric Pettersson, Sweden and Viktor Lörincz

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Middle weight, weight class up to 84 kg, light heavy weight, up to 96 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database

Web links

• Profile of Saman Tahmasebi at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Saman Tahmasebi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )