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Amir Mohammad Hosseini
Born7 November 1998
Tehran, Iran
EducationAir Force construction
Known forTaekwondo athlete
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Amir Mohammad Hosseini (Persian: امیر محمد حسینی, born on 7 November 1998) is an Iranian Taekwondo practitioner who lives in Hamburg, Germany. He is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee athlete scholarship holder for the Tokyo Olympic Games.[1] He participated in World Taekwondo Championships 2019[2] in Manchester and European Championships 2019[3] and also in European Taekwondo Championships 2021[4] as a refugee athlete. He won silver medal at the German Open 2016.[5]

Career

Hosseini was born in Tehran, and began Taekwondo at the age of eight. He left Iran for Germany in 2012[6] and started to participate at national and international tournaments in Europe the following year.[7] In 2019 he became one of only 50 people in the world to receive a scholarship for the Tokyo Olympics 2020[8] which was delayed until 2021 by the COVID-19.[9]

Events

Event G-Rank Event Date Location Place Ranking Points
Manchester 2019 World Taekwondo Championships G-12 15-19 May 2019 Manchester, UK 17 12.70
G4 Extra European Championships G-4 1-3 November 2019 Bari, Italy 17 4.23
1st WTF President's Cup-European Region G-2 7-10 April 2016 Bonn, Germany 17 0.53
Croatia Open 2019 G-1 9-10 November 2019 Zagreb, Croatia 5 2.16
German Open 2019 G-1 30-31 March 2019 Hamburg, Germany 5 1.62
Dutch Open Taekwondo Championships 2019 G-1 9-10 March 2019 Eindhoven, Netherlands 9 1.13
Greece Open 2018 G-1 19-21 October 2018 Athens, Greece 5 1.62
Polish Open Warsaw Cup 2018 G-1 14-16 September 2018 Warsaw, Poland 9 1.13
Belgian Open 2018 (Kyorugi Divisions) G-1 16-18 March 2018 Lommel, Belgium 9 0.76
Slovenia Open 2018 G-1 24-25 February 2018 Maribor, Slovenia 9 0.76
Luxembourg Open 2016 G-1 9-10 July 2016 Luxembourg 9 0.38
Austrian Open 2016 G-1 4-5 June 2016 Innsbruck, Austria 5 0.54
GERMAN OPEN 2016 G-1 23-24 April 2016 Hamburg, Germany 2 1.50

References

  1. ^ "refugee-olympic-team-tokyo-2020-shortlist-announced". Olympic channel.
  2. ^ "Event: Manchester 2019 World Taekwondo Championships". www.simplycompete.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  3. ^ "G4 Extra European Championships" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-01.
  4. ^ "2021 European Senior Championships - WT G4" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-04-08.
  5. ^ "Taekwondoka überzeugen bei German Open". RP ONLINE (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  6. ^ "Official interview with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  7. ^ "Tournaments". www.simplycompete.com. Archived from the original on 2021-04-12.
  8. ^ "scholarship holders in contention for Refugee Olympic Team at Tokyo 2020". www.insidethegames.biz. Archived from the original on 2019-06-20.
  9. ^ "Japan's Suga insists delayed Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in 2021". www.aljazeera.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-02.
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