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| Full name | Mahsa Jeddi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | March 29, 1998 Tehran, Iran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo: Kyorugi | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Neda Zare, Mahro Kamrani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mahsa Jeddi (born 3 March, 1988 in Tehran) is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete. She won the gold medal in the women's individual Kyorugi (sparring) at the 2015 Asian Games and earned a spot in the Youth Olympic Games [1] by winning a silver medal in the 2014 Olympic selection games. [2]
Steven López is an American taekwondo competitor, a 2000 and 2004 Olympic gold medalist and a 2008 Olympic bronze medalist and 4th Dan in taekwondo. In 2001, he won the Lightweight Taekwondo World Championship, and in 2003 he won the Welterweight Taekwondo World Championship which he has since won in 2005, 2007 and 2009 making him the first Taekwondo fighter to win 5 World Championships. With 2 Olympic titles, 5 titles in taekwondo world championships and 1 title in taekwondo world cup he is the most titled champion after Hadi Saei who earns 9 world class titles.
Ehsan Haddadi or Ehsan Hadadi is a former Iranian discus thrower. His height is 193 cm and his weight is 127 kg.
Mohammad Bagheri Motamed is an Iranian former professional taekwondo athlete. He won the gold medal in the featherweight division at the 2009 World Taekwondo Championships in ۱ Copenhagen, Denmark and the Olympic Silver Medal at the London 2012 Olympics. ۲
Jade Louise Jones is a Welsh taekwondo athlete. She is the 2012 and 2016 Olympic gold medallist in the women's 57 kg category, and the 2019 World champion, 2016, 2018 and 2021 European champion and both 2015 European Games and 2023 European Games champion at the same weight, the only double gold medalist at her weight in the history of those Games. In 2012, she won Britain's first taekwondo Olympic gold medal. Jones was at the time the reigning Youth Olympic champion in the girls' 55 kg category, winning gold for Great Britain in 2010.
Hadi Saei is an Iranian councilor and former taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history and the most titled champion in this sport by winning 9 world class titles . Earlier in his career and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Saei had won the Bronze medal. He was elected as member of City Council of Tehran in 2006 local elections and was reelected in 2013 but lost the 2017 election. He is one of the three most medal winners olympians in the sport of Taekwondo.
Akram Khodabandeh is the captain of the Iranian women's national taekwondo team.
Iran competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's return in 1948 after having made their debut in 1900, Iranian athletes had attended in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics.
Panipak "Tennis" Wongpattanakit is a retired Thai taekwondo athlete. A two-time Olympic champion, she is currently the top-ranked athlete in the women's 49 kg.
Kimia Alizadeh Zonouzi is an Iranian-born Bulgarian taekwondo athlete, representing Bulgaria. Alizadeh won a bronze medal in the taekwondo 57 kg weight class at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro by defeating Swedish athlete Nikita Glasnović. This made her the first Iranian woman to win a medal at a Summer Olympics. She also won a gold medal in the women's 63-kg class at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games. She beat London 2012 and Rio de Janeiro 2016 gold medallist Jade Jones at the 2015 World Championship to win a bronze medal. She also won a silver medal two years later at the 2017 World Taekwondo Championships.
Nahid Kiani is an Iranian taekwondo athlete. She is the first Iranian woman to win a silver medal at the Olympics in the 2024 Summer Olympics, Taekwondo Women's 57 kg event, also she won the gold medal in the women's bantamweight event at the 2023 World Taekwondo Championships.
Saeid Hassanipour Sefatazgomi is an Iranian karateka. He started karate with his brother (Vahid) in 1995 at Rasht Electric Club under the supervision of Hossein Navidi. He started karate with SKI Shotokan style and played in Electric Club for five years, and then joined Yadegar-e Emam Club for an active presence in the world of the championship to work under Massoud Rahnama. Hassanipour won his first official international medal in Cyprus in 2005, winning the gold medal at the global campaigns, and South Korea's Incheon was the only Gilani gold medalist at the Asian Games.
Samaneh Khoshghadam is an Iranian karateka. The champions like Hamideh Abbasali and Taravat Khaksar are her trainees. She began Karate at the age of 16. In 2003, she joined the Iran karate national women's team. She is now the head coach of the Iranian karate women's national team.
Pauline Louise Lopez is a Filipino taekwondo practitioner. She is a two-time gold medalist at the Southeast Asian Games and a bronze medalist at the Asian Games.
Seyedehsan Naghibzadeh is a male Iranian Taekwondo practitioner, who lives in Switzerland. He is a former member of the Iranian Taekwondo National Team and a 4th DAN in Taekwondo. Since 2019, he is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee athlete scholarship holder for Tokyo Olympic Games. Since 2019, Naghibzadeh is competing as a refugee athlete. He also participated in the European Taekwondo Championships 2019 in Bari. Also in 2019, Naghibzadeh was part of the Booyoung Dream Program, which was held in South Korea. In 2021, he participated in the European Taekwondo Championships in Sofia. Naghibzadeh has won medals in several international olympic ranking tournaments
Payam Ghobadi Oughaz is Iranian-born Azerbaijani taekwondo practitioner who currently plays for the Azerbaijani national taekwondo team.
Iran competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's return in 1948 after having made their debut in 1900, Iranian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except for Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984, citing political reasons. This was the nation's 19th appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Feruza Sadikova is an Uzbekistani taekwondo practitioner. In 2019, she won a bronze medal at the World Military Games, and in 2021, she won the Asian Taekwondo Championship. She has also won bronze medals twice at the World Championship, is a winner of the Islamic Solidarity Games, and a silver medalist at the Summer Asian Games.
Mahsaossadat Pourrahmati Khelejan, known as Mahsa Pourrahmati is a member of the Iranian national fencing team in Epe weapons.
Mobina Nematzadeh is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete. She won a bronze medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the women's 49 kg weight class. Nematzadeh won the Olympic quota in the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament In Tai'an, China. She also won one of the Bronze medals in the 49 kg event at the 2024 Summer Olympics held in Paris, France.
Arian Salimi is an Iranian Taekwondo athlete. He won a silver medal at the 2022 Asian Games in the Men's +80 kg weight class. Salimi won the gold medal at the Paris 2024 Summer Olympic Games by defeating Caden Cunningham in the final.
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