Career
He moved to Australia a year later, and eventually received a citizenship one week too late to qualify for the Australian team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Shahsavan represented his adopted nation Australia at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men"s 74 kg class. He received a bye for the preliminary round of sixteen, before losing out to Kazakhstan"s Roman Melyoshin, with a three-set technical score (0–3, 2–1, 0–5), and a classification point score of 1–3.