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Iranian woman weightlifter Bajelani banned for doping

mahla — Mon, 23 May 2022 22:10:18 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iranian woman weightlifter Elnaz Bajelani has been banned for three years after admitting an anti-doping rule violation.

She has tested positive for the presence of the prohibited substance Drostanolone.

Bajelani will be ineligible for competition for three years from Dec. 7, 2021 to Dec. 5, 2024.

Bajelani represented Iran at the 2020 Asian Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

She finished in sixth place with a total of 202kg in 81kg weight class.

Bajelani is the second Iranian woman weightlifter who to have tested positive for a banned substance.

Pupak Basami had been banned for six months for use of Methylphenidate.

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Iranian weightlifter Moradi nominated for lifter of the year

reporter 1222 — Wed, 09 Jan 2019 07:30:33 +0000

Sohrab Moradi from Iran has been nominated for the Best Male Lifter in 2018 by the International Weightlifting Federation.

The Iranian weightlifter has had an incredible 2018 competitive season. In August, he blew the weightlifting community’s mind with his 189kg world record snatch in the -94kg weight class. Then in November at the IWF World Championships, Moradi swept gold and set three world records in the brand new -96kg weight class.

Moradi must vie with Indonesian Eko Yuli Irawan (61kg), Xiaojun Liu from China (81kg), Armenian Simon Martirosyan (109kg) and Lasha Talakhadze from Georgia (+109kg).

The deadline to register to vote is Jan. 31.

The Lifter of the Year election was initiated by the late Jenő Boskovics (Hungarian), the founding Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. After his death in 2010, World Weightlifting created a Challenge Trophy in Memoriam Jenő Boskovics.

The same Trophy – one for Men, one for Women – has been awarded annually ever since to the Best Male and Best Female Weightlifter of the World. Every year, the new names are engraved on the Trophies.

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Iran’s Yousefi wins weightlifting gold by great comeback

reporter 1222 — Sun, 14 Oct 2018 06:40:59 +0000

Iranian junior weightlifter Alireza Yousefi defeated his Bulgarian rival in a stunning comeback and won the gold medal at 2018 Summer Youth Olympics, in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

In men’s +85kg category, which was held on Saturday, Yousefi lifted 150kg, 156kg and 162kg in his three attempts in the snacth. This is while Bulgaria’s Hristo Hristov hoisted 173kg and gained the lead by 11kg.

Circumstances completely changed in the clean and jerk where the 15-year-old Iranian lifted 211kg in his second attempt to secure the silver ahead of Netherlands’ Enzo Kuworge. However he was still 6kg behind Hristov.

In his final attempt, Yousefi hoisted 218kg to stun the audience, overhaul the Bulgarian rival and gain the gold medal of the superheavyweight category.

“I always believed that I would win the gold medal, I was very sure about it. It is very difficult and hard, but I finally got the gold. It is the happiest time in my life. The gold medal means the future and everything for me,” official website of the games quoted him as saying.

“I’m now going to prepare myself for 2024 and 2028 Olympics and attain medal for my country,” he added

The third edition of Summer Youth Olympics kicked off on October 6 and lasts for 12 days. Some 4,000 thousand athletes from 206 countries compete in 32 different sports. 49 Iranian athletes are participating in 18 disciplines.

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Iran’s Moradi breaks world weightlifting record

reporter 1222 — Sat, 25 Aug 2018 09:30:26 +0000

Iranian weightlifter Sohrab Moradi broke the world record in the snatch of 94kg category by successfully raising 189 kilograms.

In the seventh day of 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia, 2016 Olympics champion lifted 185kg in his first move of snatch to secure his first place in the ranking table. Then, as announced before, he attacked the 188kg world record set by Akakios Kakiasvilis some 19 years ago.

Moradi chose 189kg in his second attempt but failed. However in his third snatch move, he managed to successfully conquer the weight and set a new world record.

Competitions are underway in clean and jerk to determine the winners of this weight category.

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Iranian weightlifters to leave for US

reporter 1222 — Thu, 23 Nov 2017 07:15:06 +0000

National Iranian weightlifters plan to attend world weightlifting championships has been postponed to next Saturday due to the US embassy in Dubai being temporarily closed.

After some of the weightlifters of the national Iranian team obtained visas to attend world weightlifting championship, their trip has been delayed due to the US embassy in Dubai being temporarily closed.

Kianoush Rostami (85 kg), Ayoub Mousavi (94 kg), Alirezaa Soleymani and Ali Hashemi (105 kg), Saeid Alihosseini and Behdad Salimi (+105 kg) are among the weightlifters who have attained visas. In case other members of the national team are given visas, the National Iranian weightlifting team will leave Tehran for Anaheim next Tuesday.

The 2017 World Weightlifting Championships will be held in Anaheim, United States from 28 November to 5 December 2017.

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