Mehdi Khodabakhshi
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| Nationality | Iranian, Serbian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 April 1991 Tonekabon, Iran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 190 cm (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Taekwondo | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mehdi Khodabakhshi (Persian: مهدی خدابخشی, Serbian Cyrillic: Махди Ходабахши; born April 21, 1991 in Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian-born Serbian Taekwondo practitioner. He represented Iran until 2019 when he switched allegiance by representing Serbia through naturalisation. He has been involved in the sport for more than 15 years. He has beaten several Taekwondo notables such as Aaron Cook and Steven Lopez and was the world champion. Also he additionally won the gold medal in the welterweight division in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.[1] He is a participant of the 2016 Rio Olympics, but lost in the 1/04-Final against the Iranian born Azeri Milad Beigi[2][3]
References[]
- ^ "Biographies Mehdi Khodabakhshi". Incheon 2014 official website. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
- ^ "2016 Rio Olympics".
- ^ http://www.taekwondodata.com/mahdi-khodabakhshi.ahsi.html
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mehdi Khodabakhshi. |
- Mehdi Khodabakhshi at TaekwondoData.com
Categories:
- Iranian male taekwondo practitioners
- Serbian male taekwondo practitioners
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Asian Games gold medalists for Iran
- Asian Games medalists in taekwondo
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2014 Asian Games
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games
- Olympic taekwondo practitioners of Iran
- World Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists
- Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Iran
- Islamic Solidarity Games medalists in taekwondo
- Iranian martial arts biography stubs
- Asian taekwondo biography stubs