Jafar Salmasi
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Jafar Salmassi (Persian: محمدجعفر سلماسی, 22 September 1918 – 31 January 2000) was an Iranian weightlifter who won Iran's first Olympic medal at 1948 Summer Olympics.
Early life
Jafar Salmassi was born in Kadhimiya, Iraq but was originally from Salmas in northwestern Iran. Before he began his career as a weightlifter, he was a teacher at an Iranian school in Baghdad. An accomplished athlete, he taught himself gymnastics moves by reading illustrated books.[1]
He discovered weightlifting in his late 20s during a trip to Tehran and later was asked by the Iranian government to compete in a national weightlifting tournament. He won, and in 1948 went to London to compete for Iran's first Olympic team.
International weightlifting career
On 7 July 1948, he won the bronze medal in the 56 – 60 kg featherweight event.[2]
He was the Iranian champion in the featherweight weight class for five years, 1944 through 1948.
Salmassi returned to Baghdad after the Olympics. Later, won the gold medal at the 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi.
Later life
Later, Salmassi trained Iraqi weightlifters and continued teaching Iranian students there. When Saddam Hussein took power, Salmassi left Iraq and moved to Iran with his family.
He died in Tehran in January 2000.
References
- Biography
- www.chidlovski.net
- Jafar Salmasi's profile at Sports Reference.com
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- Emam-Ali Habibi
- Gholamreza Takhti
- Mohammad Nassiri
- Abdollah Movahed
- Rasoul Khadem
- Hossein Tavakkoli
- Hossein Rezazadeh (2 titles)
- Alireza Dabir
- Hadi Saei (2 titles)
- Saeid Mohammadpour
- Hamid Sourian
- Omid Norouzi
- Navab Nassirshalal
- Ghasem Rezaei
- Behdad Salimi
- Komeil Ghasemi
- Kianoush Rostami
- Sohrab Moradi
- Hassan Yazdani
- Javad Foroughi
- Mohammad Reza Geraei
- Sajjad Ganjzadeh
- Mohammad Hadi Saravi
- Saeid Esmaeili
- Arian Salimi
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- Gholamreza Takhti (2 titles)
- Nasser Givehchi
- Mahmoud Namjoo
- Mehdi Yaghoubi
- Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour
- Parviz Jalayer
- Mohammad Nassiri
- Rahim Aliabadi
- Mansour Barzegar
- Askari Mohammadian (2 titles)
- Abbas Jadidi
- Alireza Rezaei
- Masoud Mostafa-Jokar
- Kianoush Rostami
- Sajjad Anoushiravani
- Ehsan Haddadi
- Mohammad Bagheri Motamed
- Sadegh Goudarzi
- Komeil Ghasemi
- Ali Davoudi
- Hassan Yazdani (2 titles)
- Alireza Mohmadi
- Nahid Kiani
- Mehran Barkhordari
- Amir Hossein Zare
- Rahman Amouzad
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