He won the gold medal with a time of 3:53.78.

The silver medal went to Qatari athlete Yaser Saleem Bagharab who clocked 3:53.92 and Iran’s Ali Fahimi won the bronze with 3:54.00.

Iran had already won four gold medals in the competition.

Hossein Keyhani in the men’s 3,000 meters, Hassan Taftian in the men’s 60 meters, Ali Samari in the men’s shot put and Sepideh Tavakoli in the women’s long jump pentathlon had already won three gold medals for Iran.

The eighth edition of the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships were held at the Aftab-e Enqelab Sports Complex in Tehran, Iran.

Iranians competed in the event with 39 athletes and won five gold, nine silver and 10 bronze medals.

Kazakhstan won the title with seven gold medals, four silvers and one bronze.

Qatar came third, winning four gold, three silver and two bronze medals.

He broke clean and jerk and overall world records on his way to claiming a hat-trick of gold medals on day six of the competition underway in Anaheim, California, USA.

Having already sealed his clean sweep of the gold medals with his first clean and jerk lift of 220kg, the 29-year-old Olympic champion successfully managed 233kg to beat the previous global mark of 232kg held by Poland’s Szymon Kolecki.

He also broke his own overall world record of 413kg after finishing on 417kg.

Moradi had earlier won the snatch with 184kg on what was a memorable day for the Iranian.

The overall silver medalist was Lithuania’s Aurimas Didzbalis with 388kg.

Iran’s Seyed Ayoob Mousavijarahi won the bronze medal with 385kg.