Seyed Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi ( fa, سید شمس الدین سیدعباسی, February 5, 1943,

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

– March 16, 2004,

) was an Iranian wrestler who won a

bronze medal A bronze medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of bronze awarded to the third-place finisher of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc. The outright winner receive ...

in freestyle at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Seyed-Abbasi died at 3 o'clock on the afternoon of 16 March 2004 (26 ''Esfand'' 1382 AH) in ''Iranmehr'' Hospital in

Gholhak Gholhak is a neighborhood located in District 3 of Tehran Municipality. It is bounded on the east by the Darrous neighborhood (Fakourian Street), on the west by the Gholhak River, on the north by the British Embassy Garden, and on the south by th ...

, Tehran from cancer.

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1943 births 2004 deaths Wrestlers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Iranian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Iran Olympic bronze medalists for Iran Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Olympic medalists in wrestling Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 1970 Asian Games World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics {{Iran-wrestling-bio-stub Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games 20th-century Iranian people 21st-century Iranian people World Wrestling Champions Sport wrestlers from Tehran