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Asgari Doon started with a 135 kg weight and then lifted the 139 kg weight over his head to receive a gold medal in snatch category.In Clean-and-jerk category, he bagged a silver medal.Eskandarzade in clean-and-jerk lifted 161kg weight and ranked third.Iranian junior weightlifters Aref Khaki and Afshin Taheri also earlier …

Molaei with 4,871 points defeated his rival from the Netherlands and ranked first in the world championships, Iran national judo team head coach Mohammad Mansouri told the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA) on Sunday.Judo was created as a physical, mental and moral pedagogy in Japan, in 1882, by Jigoro Kano. …

On the sixth day of the championships, Taheri by lifting 154 kg in snatch finished runner up after an Omani weightlifter, winning a silver medal. In clean and jerk, Taheri cleared the 177 kg weight to stand at the fourth place. But in total, the Iranian athlete with 331 kg …

Afshin Taheri from Iran lifted 147kg and 154 kg weights, but he failed to lift 158 kg weight.Aref Khaki also lifted 147 kg weight and snatched a bronze medal. Junior Iranian weightlifter Hussein Soltani had earlier won all three gold medals of 77 kg weight-class.Soltani, who has already secured his …

Speaking with a group of athletes in Abadan, he said closely observing economic, political, and sportsmanship in the city plays significant role in identifying the untapped potentials in the region. 'Abadan is very rich in terms of industry, tourism and export of goods and commodities,' Santos added.Since people in Abadan …

Iran has invested a lot to promote sport activities in the country and that is why many of Iranian teams are performing well at the international arena in different games. Pakistan being a neighbor of Iran can benefit a lot from the experience of the Islamic Republic in sports sector. …

In the snatch competitions of 77 kg weight-class, Soltani by lifting 144 kg in snatch grabbed the gold medal. A weightlifter from host country Uzbekistan with 143 kg and another weightlifter from South Korea with 132 kg ranked second and third respectively.Some eight young weightlifters are competing in Group A …

Soltani who has already secured his gold medal in snatch competitions by lighting 144 kg early in the day grabbed two more gold medals in clean and jerk and total. In clean and jerk he cleared 180 kg to raise his total to 324 kg in the 77 kg weight …

Rodrigo de Azeredo Santos, referring to the Iranians' interest in football games, said that 'football can play a role in boosting relations between the two countries.'Santos who had tripped to the city of Abadan in the southwestern province of Khouzestan to watch the match between Esteqlal Khuzestan and Sanat Naft …

Vice President of the International Canoe Federation (ICF) Thomas Konietzko who is also the Chair of German Canoe Federation met with President of Iran’s National Olympic Committee Reza Salehi Amiri in Tehran on Friday.During the meeting held in the presence of Secretary General of Confederation of African Canoeing Seif Patwa, …