Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics - 58g

Farzan Ashourzadeh Fallah ( fa, فرزان عاشورزاده فلاح, born November 25, 1996 in

Tonekabon Tonekabon ( fa, تنكابن, also Romanized as Tonekābon; formerly known as Shahsavar (Persian: شَهسَوار), also Romanized as Shahsavār and Shahsawār) is a city and capital of Tonekabon County, Mazandaran Province, northern Iran. At ...

, Mazandaran,

Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni ...

) is an Iranian

taekwondo ''Taekwondo'', ''Tae Kwon Do'' or ''Taekwon-Do'' (; ko, 태권도/跆拳道 ) is a Korean martial arts, Korean form of martial arts involving punching and kicking techniques, with emphasis on head-height kicks, spinning jump kicks, and fast k ...

practitioner. He won the gold medal in the flyweight division (-58 kg) at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon,

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korean Peninsula and sharing a land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed by the Yellow Sea, while its eas ...

. In 2016 he participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics but surprisingly lost in the 1/08-Finale against Omar Hajjami.

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* Iranian male taekwondo practitioners 1996 births Living people Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games bronze medalists for Iran Asian Games medalists in taekwondo Taekwondo practitioners at the 2014 Asian Games Taekwondo practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games Olympic taekwondo practitioners for Iran Taekwondo practitioners at the 2016 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games People from Tonekabon World Taekwondo Championships medalists Asian Taekwondo Championships medalists Sportspeople from Mazandaran province 21st-century Iranian people {{Iran-taekwondo-bio-stub