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Hamid Reza Gholipour (born 26 June 1988) is an Iranian wushu athlete. He is a four-time Wushu World Champion. [1] Gholipour received a four-year ban after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone, starting in October 2019, and disqualified from the 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, and the results at the competition forfeited. [2]
Sanda, formerly Sanshou, is the official Chinese boxing full-contact combat sport. Sanda is a fighting system which was originally developed by the Chinese military based upon the study and practices of traditional Chinese martial arts and modern combat fighting techniques; it combines boxing and full-contact kickboxing, which includes close range and rapid successive punches and kicks, with wrestling, takedowns, throws, sweeps, kick catches, and in some competitions, even elbow and knee strikes.
Many sports in Iran are both traditional and modern. Tehran, for example, was the first city in West Asia to host the Asian Games in 1974, and continues to host and participate in major international sporting events to this day. Freestyle wrestling has been traditionally regarded as Iran's national sport, however today, football is the most popular sport in Iran. Because of economic sanctions, the annual government's budget for sport was about $80 million in 2010 or about $1 per person.
The 1994 Asian Games, also known as the XII Asiad and the 12th Asian Games or simply Hiroshima 1994, were held from October 2 to 16, 1994, in Hiroshima, Japan.This is first on Games'history that a country non-capital city hosted the event.The main theme of this edition was to promote peace and harmony among Asian nations. This concept was used due the historical fact that the city was the site of the first atomic bomb attack 49 years earlier. Due to the 1991 Gulf War, Iraq was suspended from the games. The games debuted the five Asian former republics of the Soviet Union: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
Wushu, or kung fu, is a competitive Chinese martial art. It integrates concepts and forms from various traditional and modern Chinese martial arts, including Shaolin kung fu, tai chi, and Wudangquan. "Wushu" is the Chinese term for "martial arts", reflecting the art's goal as a compilation and standardization of various styles.
The Beijing Wushu Team is a world-renowned wushu team from Beijing, China. The team has produced many famous international stars such as Jet Li, Donnie Yen, Hao Zhihua, Huang Qiuyan, Zhang Hongmei and Wu Jing. The Beijing team members also work with movie producers to make films. Aside from Jet Li, many other athletes have also been featured in movies Every year, the Beijing Team performs demonstrations of wushu for the citizens of Beijing as well as visiting dignitaries. They have performed for former US President Jimmy Carter as well as many other foreign heads of state when they visited Beijing.
The 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament was a wushu competition which was held from August 21 to 24, 2008 at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China. The tournament was organised by the Beijing Organizing Committee for the Olympic Games (BOCOG), the International Wushu Federation (IWUF), and the Chinese Wushu Association (CWA), and was held in tandem with the 2008 Summer Olympics.
The Islamic Solidarity Games is a multinational, multi-sport event. Managed jointly by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) and Islamic Solidarity Sports Federation (ISSF), the Games involve elite athletes of the OIC competing in a variety of sports. The most recent edition was held in Konya, Turkey, in 2022. The next edition will take place in 2025 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Hossein Ojaghi is a former competitive wushu athlete and sanshou fighter from Iran. He has had an impressive run as a competitive wushu athlete from the late 1990s to the late 2000s and became world champion in 1997, 1999 and 2009, as well as won medals in the Asian Games and the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament.
Ijaz Ahmed is an international wushu competitor from Pakistan. He won a silver medal at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China.He won a gold medal at 2006 South Asian Games in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He is the only silver medalist from Pakistan in any martial arts at the Asian Games.
The men's sanshou 75 kilograms competition at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China was held from 13 November to 17 November at the Nansha Gymnasium.
Mohsen Mohammadseifi is an Iranian mixed martial artist and wushu athlete. He won the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea. He won the 1st place at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. He won 5 wushu world championships gold medals between 2011 and 2019. Mohammadseifi is currently competing in Brave Combat Federation in Bahrain. He has been appointed as the new head of the Wushu Board in the city of Zanjan, Iran.
Zahra Kiani is a wushu taolu athlete from Iran. She is a four-time world junior champion and a silver medalist at the Asian Games.
Erfan Ahangarian is an Iranian wushu athlete. He won the gold medal at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia. He won gold medal at the 2019 World Wushu Championships in Shanghai in the men's Sanda 60 kg category.
The 2023 World Wushu Championships was the 16th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Fort Worth Convention Center in Fort Worth, Texas, United States, from November 16 to 20, 2023.
Geng Xiaoling is a retired professional wushu taolu athlete who represented Hong Kong. She is one of the most renowned taolu athletes of all time, having been a five-time world champion and a gold medallist at the Asian Games and the East Asian Games.
Ehsan Peighambari is a former wushu taolu athlete from Iran. At the 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou, China, he became the first Iranian athlete to win a medal in wushu taolu, having won the bronze medal in men's changquan. He also won a bronze medal in men's changquan at the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament, a silver medal in daoshu and gunshu combined at the 2010 World Combat Games, and a bronze medal in changquan at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games.
Nguyễn Thúy Hiền is a retired Vietnamese wushu taolu athlete. She is the most renowned wushu athlete of all time, having been a seven-time world champion. Due to her numerous achievements, she was voted as the best Vietnamese female athlete of the 20th century.
Gholipour is an Iranian surname which can also be found in the Iranian diaspora. Notable people with the surname include:
Sedigheh Daryaei is an Iranian wushu athlete who competes in the sanda division. From the age of 21, she managed to pursue her career in the senior Asian Wushu Championships and won her first Asian gold medal in the senior age category this year. Of course, before this important achievement, she was able to win a gold medal in 2009 in the Asian Youth Championship in Macau. 2 world championship medals are also visible in the career of Sedigheh Daryaei. She is also a member of Sepahan Club in the Iranian Wushu League and has a history of winning in these competitions.
Seyed Moein Taghavi, also known as Moein Taghavi, is an Iranian wushu athlete. Taghavi has a record of winning domestic competitions, Asian championships and world championships. He also won a gold medal in the Wushu World Cup and won the championship title, but due to the positive announcement of his doping test, the medal won was lost for Taghavi.
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