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A competitor from Jamaica with a 69.37 meter throw took the first place while the German discus thrower ranked third with a throw of 65.13 meters.
Ehsan Haddadi , born 20 January 1985 in Tehran is an Iranian discus thrower. He is 193 cm and 127 kg.
He won a gold medal at the 2004 World Junior Championships in Grosseto, becoming the first Iranian to win a medal at any global athletics competition.
In 2005 he won the Asian Championships in Incheon with a throw of 65.25 meters. In December 2006, he added another gold medal to his record, winning the title at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. In 2007, he won the Asian Championships in Amman and defended his title.
His personal best throw is 69.32 m, achieved on June 3, 2008 in Tallinn, Estonia. This is the current Asian record.
After more than a year's absence due to shoulder surgery, In November 2009, he won his third in a row continental title in Guangzhou.
After winning 2010 Asian Games in Guangzhou and 2011 Asian Championship in Kobe, Haddadi made history by becoming the first Iranian athlete to win a medal at IAAF World Championships in Athletics. He won bronze in 2011 World Championships in Athletics in Daegu.
Haddadi competed and won a silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics with a 68.18 m throw. Iranian athletes have participated in the Olympic Games since 1948 and before Haddadi's silver medal, had only attained medals in wrestling, weightlifting, and taekwondo. His achievement was a milestone in Iran's Olympic history in that it ended Iran's 64-year-old medal drought in events other than the aforementioned.
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