Hamid Sajjadi
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Minister of Sport and Youths | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Assumed office 25 August 2021 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President | Ebrahim Raisi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Masoud Soltanifar | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vice Minister of Youth Affairs and Sports For Athletics and Professional Affairs | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
In office 25 August 2011 – 15 August 2013 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
President | Mahmoud Ahmadinejad | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Minister | Mohammad Abbasi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Preceded by | Position established | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Succeeded by | Nasrollah Sajjadi | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Tehran, Imperial State of Iran Sports career | 21 March 1969|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country | Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Men's athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 3000 metres steeplechase, 5000 metres, 10,000 metres | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 1500 metres: 3:41.66[1] 3000-m steeplechase: 8:33.89[1] 5000 metres: 13:53.40[1] 10,000 metres: 29:22.65[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Iranian |
Seyed Hamid Sajjadi Hazaveh (Persian: سید حمید سجادی هزاوه, born 21 March 1969) is the current Minister of Sport and Youths of Iran, since August 25, 2021. He is also an Iranian retired middle distance and long distance runner. He represented Iran at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. Sajjadi holds multiple indoor and outdoor national track records for Iran.[citation needed]
Running career[]
Sajjadi ran the men's 5,000 m race at the 1992 Summer Olympics, although he did not qualify past the preliminaries with a time of 14:04.54 (min:sec). Sajjadi also ran the men's 10,000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics, finishing in 29:22.65. Throughout the 1990s, he was a prolific steeplechaser, specializing in the 3000 metres steeplechase in which he finished in first place at the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships.[2]
Academic and administrative career[]
Sajjadi has a PhD in physiology and is also a lecturer at Azad University. He was at one point nominated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be Iran's sports minister, but he never took up the job.[3] He is currently number two of the Iranian sport organization.[citation needed]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b c d "Athlete profile: Hamid Sadjadi". IAAF.
- ^ "Asian Championships". www.gbrathletics.com. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Tehran Bureau: Ahmadinejad Critics Emboldened by Ministerial Resignation, Rejection". PBS. 23 June 2011.
External links[]
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sayed Hamid Sajjadi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Hamid Sadjadi at World Athletics
- Biography (in Persian)
- 1969 births
- Living people
- Iranian sportsperson-politicians
- Iranian male middle-distance runners
- Iranian male cross country runners
- Iranian male steeplechase runners
- Iranian male long-distance runners
- Olympic male steeplechase runners
- Olympic male long-distance runners
- Olympic athletes of Iran
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games silver medalists for Iran
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1990 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1994 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1998 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games
- World Athletics Championships athletes for Iran
- Asian Cross Country Championships winners
- Islamic Azad University, Central Tehran Branch faculty
- Coalition of the Pleasant Scent of Servitude politicians