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Iranian Taekwondo practitioner
Amir Mohammad Hosseini
Born7 November 1998
Tehran, Iran
EducationAir Force construction
Known forTaekwondo athlete
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Amir Mohammad Hosseini (Persian: امیر محمد حسینی, born on 7 November 1998) is an Iranian Taekwondo practitioner who lives in Hamburg, Germany. He is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee athlete scholarship holder for the Tokyo Olympic Games. He participated in World Taekwondo Championships 2019 in Manchester and European Championships 2019 and also in European Taekwondo Championships 2021 as a refugee athlete. He won silver medal at the German Open 2016.

Career

Hosseini was born in Tehran, and began Taekwondo at the age of eight. He left Iran for Germany in 2012 and started to participate at national and international tournaments in Europe the following year. In 2019 he became one of only 50 people in the world to receive a scholarship for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 which was delayed until 2021 by the COVID-19.

Events

Event G-Rank Event Date Location Place Ranking Points
Manchester 2019 World Taekwondo Championships G-12 15-19 May 2019 Manchester, UK 17 12.70
G4 Extra European Championships G-4 1-3 November 2019 Bari, Italy 17 4.23
1st WTF President's Cup-European Region G-2 7-10 April 2016 Bonn, Germany 17 0.53
Croatia Open 2019 G-1 9-10 November 2019 Zagreb, Croatia 5 2.16
German Open 2019 G-1 30-31 March 2019 Hamburg, Germany 5 1.62
Dutch Open Taekwondo Championships 2019 G-1 9-10 March 2019 Eindhoven, Netherlands 9 1.13
Greece Open 2018 G-1 19-21 October 2018 Athens, Greece 5 1.62
Polish Open Warsaw Cup 2018 G-1 14-16 September 2018 Warsaw, Poland 9 1.13
Belgian Open 2018 (Kyorugi Divisions) G-1 16-18 March 2018 Lommel, Belgium 9 0.76
Slovenia Open 2018 G-1 24-25 February 2018 Maribor, Slovenia 9 0.76
Luxembourg Open 2016 G-1 9-10 July 2016 Luxembourg 9 0.38
Austrian Open 2016 G-1 4-5 June 2016 Innsbruck, Austria 5 0.54
GERMAN OPEN 2016 G-1 23-24 April 2016 Hamburg, Germany 2 1.50

References

  1. "refugee-olympic-team-tokyo-2020-shortlist-announced". Olympic channel.
  2. "Event: Manchester 2019 World Taekwondo Championships". www.simplycompete.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  3. "G4 Extra European Championships" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-01.
  4. "2021 European Senior Championships - WT G4" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-04-08.
  5. "Taekwondoka überzeugen bei German Open". RP ONLINE (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  6. "Official interview with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
  7. "Tournaments". www.simplycompete.com. Archived from the original on 2021-04-12.
  8. "scholarship holders in contention for Refugee Olympic Team at Tokyo 2020". www.insidethegames.biz. Archived from the original on 2019-06-20.
  9. "Japan's Suga insists delayed Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in 2021". www.aljazeera.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-02.

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