Soryan gives Iran 1st Olympic Gold in Greco Roman

It always seemed a bit strange that wrestling-mad Iran had never won an Olympic gold medal in the Greco-Roman discipline. Hamid Soryan ended that drought on Sunday, and he might not be the only Iranian to win a gold in London. Soryan, the five-time world champion, won his country's first gold medal in men's 55-kilogram, beating Rovshan Bayramov of Azerbaijan 2-0, 1-0. "I'm hoping that I made everybody happy back home," Soryan said. Iran has 30 overall medals in freestyle but had only two, a silver and a bronze, in Greco-Roman before Sunday. The Iranians also have a pair of Greco-Roman world champions in Omid Noroozi at 60 kilograms and Saeid Morad Abdvali at 66 kg, and both are considered the favorite in their respective classes.