Olympics Wresting: Iran's Reihanpour wins Greco-Roman 55kg title

Iran’s Hamid Reihanpour celebrates after defeating Azerbaijan’s Rovshan Bayramov during their 55kg Greco Roman Wrestling Final match of the London 2012 Olympic Games at the Excel Centre in London. Soryan beat Bayramov to win the gold medal.

LONDON - Iran’s five-time world champion Hamid Soryan Reihanpour won a maiden Olympic Games Greco-Roman wrestling title on Sunday, beating Azerbaijan’s Rovshan Bayramov for the 55kg title.

Peter Modos of Hungary and Mingiyan Semenov of Russian took the bronze medals.

The 26-year-old Iranian wrestler won world titles in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009 and 2010, but was only fifth at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 where he had been favourite.

In Sunday’s final, he breezed past reigning world champion Bayramov 3-0.