The Iranian pair defeated Korea Republic’s Baek Kwangil and Park Chan-Hyeok 3-1 (11-6, 13-11, 8-11, 11-9) to claim men’s doubles gold.

Alamian brothers had previously defeated Belarus 3-1, South Korea 3-1 and Spain 3-2 in the competition.

A total of 157 men and 86 women competed in Granada, Spain from Feb. 4 to 8.

Nima Alamian is an Iranian table tennis player. He won at the 2016 Asian qualification tournament and qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Noshad Alamian Darounkolaei is an Iranian table tennis player.

Alamian made a breakthrough at 2008 ITTF World Junior Championships held in Madrid, Spain by beating junior world no. 1 Kenta Matsudaira; despite being coachless he finished 5th overall.

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Nima and Noshad Alamian, Amir Hossein Hodaei, Afshin Norouzi, and Arya Amiri will represent the Iran Table Tennis team in the World Team Championships.

The World Table Tennis Championships have been held since 1926, biennially since 1957. Five individual events, which include men’s singles, women’s singles, men’s doubles, women’s doubles, and mixed doubles, are currently held in odd-numbered years.

The World Team Table Tennis Championships, which include men’s team and women’s team events, were first their own competition in 2000. The Team Championships are held in even-numbered years.

The 2020 World Team Table Tennis Championships will be held in Busan, South Korea from March 22 to 29, 2020.

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