Iran National Thread

[heywoodu 16,000]

45 minutes ago, MHSN said:

today we had a competition between weightlifters to determine the national team for the Olympics, coach will announce the team soon but here is the result , not impressing at all.

 

Ayoub Mousavi (85) 165+200=365 (162X 162X 165 / 200 210X 211X)

Ali Hashemi (94) 175+no mark ! (172X 175 180X / 212X 212X 215X)

Sohrab Moradi (94) 180+234=414 (180 185X 188X / 220 234 -)

Mohammad Reza Barari (105) 180+220=400 (180 185X 185X / 220 225X 225X )

Bahador Molaei (+105) 190+240=430 (190 195X 195X / 240 252X -)

 

Kianoush Rostami (85) is training separately in another city (in Tehran) and wasn't even there to compete and Behdad Salimi decided to not.

 

Moradi's 234kg rcord is 1kg higher than Ilya Ilyin current world record. still his snatch wasn't impressing by his standards, still he will be clear favorite for gold in Rio. others didn't impress at all. specially Barari and Hashemi they lifted even less than their Fajr Cup results ! Bahador has improved by 20kg which is a good sign, still he needs 10 more kilos to compete for a medal in Rio.

 

I think they will drop Mousavi for sure, Rostami, Moradi and Salimi are already selected. the last 2 spots are between Hashemi, Barari and Molaei

 

Wait, 234kg and 1kg above Ilyin's record? Am I missing something or is that a huge sign for him dominating in Rio?  (I don't know, are these kind of competitions at their actual body weight or are they maybe a bit heavier there?) 

 

 

[amiry2j 7]

1 hour ago, MHSN said:

today we had a competition between weightlifters to determine the national team for the Olympics, coach will announce the team soon but here is the result , not impressing at all.

 

Ayoub Mousavi (85) 165+200=365 (162X 162X 165 / 200 210X 211X)

Ali Hashemi (94) 175+no mark ! (172X 175 180X / 212X 212X 215X)

Sohrab Moradi (94) 180+234=414 (180 185X 188X / 220 234 -)

Mohammad Reza Barari (105) 180+220=400 (180 185X 185X / 220 225X 225X )

Bahador Molaei (+105) 190+240=430 (190 195X 195X / 240 252X -)

 

Kianoush Rostami (85) is training separately in another city (in Tehran) and wasn't even there to compete and Behdad Salimi decided to not.

 

Moradi's 234kg rcord is 1kg higher than Ilya Ilyin current world record. still his snatch wasn't impressing by his standards, still he will be clear favorite for gold in Rio. others didn't impress at all. specially Barari and Hashemi they lifted even less than their Fajr Cup results ! Bahador has improved by 20kg which is a good sign, still he needs 10 more kilos to compete for a medal in Rio.

 

I think they will drop Mousavi for sure, Rostami, Moradi and Salimi are already selected. the last 2 spots are between Hashemi, Barari and Molaei

what's happened to his snatch move? i saw a video about 1 year ago which shows 200 snatch and 240 clean and jerk. i know it's some possible training act , but i expected at least 188 kg snatch! link

 

 

 

btw Adrian Zielinski new record in polish championship 188+221=409kg

Edited July 6, 2016 by amiry2j

[MHSN 3,773]

23 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

 

Wait, 234kg and 1kg above Ilyin's record? Am I missing something or is that a huge sign for him dominating in Rio?  (I don't know, are these kind of competitions at their actual body weight or are they maybe a bit heavier there?) 

 

 

 

well this is not surprising for me ! actually I'm a bit surprised by his poor snatch, even though snatch is always tricky, sometimes you miss a weight you usually can lift easily. I think I said before that he will be the clear favorite for the gold in Rio. probably Iran's best chance in all sports. IWF already banned most of his serious opponents.

 

as far as I know our new coach prefers to keep them near the actual body weight, he did participate in Fajr Cup and Pan American Champs few weeks ago , so I guess he is somewhere near the competition weight.

[heywoodu 16,000]

20 minutes ago, MHSN said:

 

well this is not surprising for me ! actually I'm a bit surprised by his poor snatch, even though snatch is always tricky, sometimes you miss a weight you usually can lift easily. I think I said before that he will be the clear favorite for the gold in Rio. probably Iran's best chance in all sports. IWF already banned most of his serious opponents.

 

 

[MHSN 3,773]

Apparently we will have two more athletes in Rio !

two Iranian hammer thrower competed in an age group tourney in Belarus as invitee and both reached the Olympic standard (and broke the national record), even though they believe they are qualified for Rio but our federation is not sure yet and they are contacting the Belarus federation to know about the validation of this tournament !

 

here is a link for the results, page 8. I think it was an official competition and they are qualified but better to wait for official announcement from the federation.

http://bfla.eu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/turnir-tichona-2016.pdf

 

they are

Kaveh Mousavi and Pejman Ghalehnoei

[MHSN 3,773]

since Belarus federation approved the results, both Mousavi and Ghalehnoei are now officially qualified for Rio, Iran will get one more quota in Swimming through wild card or universality places or whatever. which means we will send 63 athletes (including 9 women) to Rio, unless someone gets injured or something, this is our final number.

 

Wrestling 12

Volleyball 12

Athletics 10

Shooting 5

Weightlifting 5

Taekwondo 4

Judo 3

Table Tennis 3

Cycling 3

Fencing 2

Rowing 1

Boxing 1

Swimming 1

Archery 1

 

[MHSN 3,773]

update about the delegation

 

Iran will have one swimmer in Rio via Wild Card / Universality places , they give that to 17 years old Aria Nasimi-Shad

 

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Iran Cycling federation announced a list ot 4 cyclists, 3 of them will go to Rio

Arvin Moazzami

Ghader Mizbani

Mehdi Sohrabi

Samad Pourseyedi

 

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Iran Weightlifting federation officially announced the name of 3 weightlifters for Rio, no surprise at all

Kianoush Rostami (85kg)

Sohrab Moradi (94kg)

Behdad Salimi (+105kg)

 

they also dropped Ayoub Mousavi from the squad, whch means the last 2 spots will be between Hashemi, Barari and Molaei.

[MHSN 3,773]

Iran Wrestling Team in Rio

 

 

59 Hamid Sourian - 1 Olympic Gold (2012) / 6 World Gold (2005,2006,2007,2009,2010,2014)

66 Omid Norouzi - 1 Olympic Gold (2012) / 1 World Gold (2011) / 1 World Silver (2014)

75 Saeid Abdevali - 1 World Gold (2011)

85 Habibollah Akhlaghi - 2 World Bronze (2009,2015)

98 Ghasem Rezaei - 1 Olympic Gold (2012) / 1 World Silver (2015) / 2 World Bronze (2007,2014)

130 Bashir Babajanzadeh - 1 World Bronze (2011)

 

57 Hassan Rahimi - 1 World Gold (2013) / 1 World Silver (2015) / 2 World Bronze (2011,2014)

65 Meisam Nassiri - -

74 Hassan Yazdani - 1 World Silver (2015)

86 Alireza Karimi - 1 World Bronze (2015)

97 Reza Yazdani - 2 World Gold (2011,2013) / 2 World Bronze (2006,2007)

125 Komeil Ghasemi - 1 Olympic Bronze (2012) / 1 World Silver (2014)

Edited July 15, 2016 by MHSN

[MHSN 3,773]

more squads announced for Rio, Cycling and Volleyball. now we know 61 out of 63 athletes in Rio, the only remaining spots will be decided tomorrow in weightlifting.

 

Cycling

Samad Pourseyedi

Ghader Mizbani

Arvin Moazzami Goudarzi

 

* one of these guys will ride in time trial event, they didn't announce that but it will be either Mizbani or Moazzami.

 

Volleyball

Setter: Saeid Marouf, Mehdi Mahdavi

MB: Mohammad Mousavi, Adel Gholami, Mostafa Sharifat

OP: Amir Ghafour, Shahram Mahmoudi

OH: Farhad Ghaemi, Mojtaba Mirzajanpour, Milad Ebadipour, Hamzeh Zarini

Libero: Mehdi Marandi

[ledon 13]

Iran Weightlifting team for Rio:

 

85 kg - Kianoush Rostami

94 kg - Ali Hashemi and Sohrab Moradi

105 kg - Mohammad Reza Barrari

+105 kg - Behdad Salimi

 

Huge disappoinment for Molaei. I feel bad for him.