Behdad Salimi
Behdad Salimi in 2016, during the olympic games
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| Full name | Behdad Salimi Kordasiabi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname(s) | "Iranian Hercules" | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Iran
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December 8, 1989 Ghaemshahr, Mazandaran, Iran |
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| Residence | Ghaemshahr, Mazandaran, Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Physical Education | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alma mater | Islamic Azad University of Ghaemshahr | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 197 cm (6 ft 6 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 169.79 kg (374.3 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Iran
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| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Zob Ahan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Ghasem Ghazalian Kourosh Bagheri |
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Behdad Salimi Kordasiabi (Persian: بهداد سلیمی كردآسیابی, born December 8, 1989 in Ghaemshahr, Mazandaran) is an Iranian weightlifter in the +105 kg category.
At the 2010 World Weightlifting Championships Salimi won the gold medal in the +105 kg category. Salimi won gold again in the +105 kg category at the 2010 Asian Games with a 205 kg snatch and a 235 kg clean and jerk.
Salimi won the gold medal at the 2011 World Weightlifting Championships in Paris, France on November 13, 2011, and set a new snatch world record of 214 kg.
Salimi became the 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the +105 kg category on August 7, 2012 with a 208 kg snatch, a 247 kg clean and jerk for a total of 455 kg.
Despite a torn ACL, total knee re-construction and over two years out of the game, Behdad Salimi returned to weightlifting in 2016 to compete in the Fajr Cup, held in Tehran, Iran and won gold.
Salimi made a weightlifting comeback, in the Rio 2016 Olympics, where he bettered his own world record in the snatch and completed a clean & jerk lift which was approved by all three referees before being controversially disqualified by the jury. Iran’s National Olympics Committee filed an application to the CAS. The International Weightlifting Federation website was hacked on the next morning and its Instagram page flooded with over 285,000 comments.
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