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Parviz Jalayer
Parviz Jalayer ( fa, پرویز جلایر , 6 October 1939 – 6 July 2019) was an Iranian weightlifter. He competed at the 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1968. In 1966 he won a gold medal at the Asian Games and a bronze at the World Championships. The following year he set a world record in the clean and jerk. After retiring from competitions he worked as a weightlifting coach. References 1939 births 2019 deaths World Weightlifting Championships medalists Iranian male weightlifters Iranian strength athletes Olympic weightlifters for Iran Olympic silver medalists for Iran Weightlifters at the 1964 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1968 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Olympic medalists in weightlifting Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 1966 Asian Games Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games Sportspeople from Tehran {{iran-Olympic-medalist-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tehran
Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most populous city in Iran and Western Asia, and has the second-largest metropolitan area in the Middle East, after Cairo. It is ranked 24th in the world by metropolitan area population. In the Classical era, part of the territory of present-day Tehran was occupied by Rhages, a prominent Median city destroyed in the medieval Arab, Turkic, and Mongol invasions. Modern Ray is an urban area absorbed into the metropolitan area of Greater Tehran. Tehran was first chosen as the capital of Iran by Agha Mohammad Khan of the Qajar dynasty in 1786, because of its proximity to Iran's territories in the Caucasus, then separated from Iran in the Russo-Iranian Wars, to avoid the vying factions of the previously ruling Iranian dynasties. The capital has been ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
