Hojjatollah Vaezi (born March 27, 1977) is an athlete from Iran, who competes in

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing Hojjatolah finished his ranking round with a total of 604 points, which gave him the 63rd seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Mangal Singh Champia in the first round. Champia won the match by 112-98 and Hojjatolah was eliminated. Champia would lose in the next round against

Bair Badënov Bair Badënov (russian: Баи́р Доржи́евич Бадёнов, ''Baír Dorzhíyevich Badyónov'', ; born June 28, 1976, in Zugalay, now Zabaykalsky Krai) is a Russian archer. Badënov was a World Champion among Youth in 1993, a Europe ...

.Athlete biography: Vaezi Hojjatollah
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 19 2008

References

1977 births Living people Iranian male archers Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Iran Place of birth missing (living people) {{Iran-archery-bio-stub