Rasoul Khadem
Rasoul Khadem | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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![]() Rasoul Khadem during 2016 Summer Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Member of City Council of Tehran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 29 April 2003 – 3 September 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Rasoul Khadem Azghadi 18 March 1972 Mashhad, Iran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Political party | Independent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Relatives | Amir Reza Khadem (brother) Ebrahim Khadem (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sports career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Iran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rasoul Khadem Azghadi (Persian: رسول خادم ازغدی, born March 18, 1972) is a former Iranian wrestler who has won a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics and a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was also the 1994 and 1995 world champion and 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 Asian champion. He was trained by his father Mohammad Khadem, and he is also the younger brother of Olympic wrestling bronze medalists Amir Reza Khadem and Ebrahim Khadem.
He was the president of Islamic Republic of Iran Wrestling Federation from January 4, 2014, to November 3, 2018. He was also the technical director of Iran's wrestling national teams and the head coach of Iran's freestyle national team from January 2012 to 2018. In addition, he was elected as an executive board member of National Olympic Committee of Iran on January 20, 2014, and served until January 2018.[citation needed]
Major achievements
[edit]- Junior World Championship –
1991
1989
- World Championships –
1994 1995
1998
- Olympic Games -
1996
1992
References
[edit]- Profile at FILA Wrestling Database
- (in Persian) biography
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Mashhad
- Olympic wrestlers for Iran
- Olympic gold medalists for Iran
- Olympic bronze medalists for Iran
- Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Iranian male sport wrestlers
- Asian Games gold medalists for Iran
- Asian Games silver medalists for Iran
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Iranian sportsperson-politicians
- Asian Games medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1990 Asian Games
- Wrestlers at the 1994 Asian Games
- World Wrestling Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1990 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games
- Tehran Councillors 2007–2013
- Tehran Councillors 2003–2007
- Recipients of the Order of Courage (Iran)
- Asian Wrestling Championships medalists
- 20th-century Iranian sportsmen
- 21st-century Iranian sportspeople
- World Wrestling Champions
- Iranian politician stubs
- Iranian sport wrestler stubs
- Iranian sportspeople stubs
- Asian Olympic medalist stubs