• 2008 Olympic Games

      Soryan failed to capture medal

      • 16:33 2008/8/12

      Hamid Soryan failed to capture medal at Olympic Games.
      Three times world champion at 55kg weight class in Greco-roman pinned Venelin Venkov from Bulgaria, then defeated Elgin Elwais from Palau (8-0 , 6-0) but lost to Nazyr Mankiev from Russia(2-2, 1-1, 1-1).
      Soryan defeated Kristian Fris from Serbia (5-0,1-1) in Repechage but lost to Kim Eun Chul from Korea (1-1, 2-2) in Bronze medal match. Another bronze medal went to Roman Amoyan from Armenia.
      By defeating Rovshan Bayramov from Azerbaijan, Mankiev won 55 kg gold medal.
      Also Eslam Beka Albiev from Russia became 60kg Champion. He won Vitaly Rahimov from Azerbaijan in final match. Ruslan Tumenbaev from Kyrgyzstan and Norbakhit Cengizbaev from Kazakhstan were 60kg bronze medal winners.

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