Houshang Kargarnejad ( fa, هوشنگ کارگرنژاد, born 23 April 1945) is a retired

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 ...

ian heavyweight weightlifter who competed at the

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. He won gold medals at the 1974 Asian Games and 1971 and 1977 Asian Championships.

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1945 births Living people Iranian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Iran Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1970 Asian Games Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games bronze medalists for Iran Weightlifters at the 1970 Asian Games Weightlifters at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in weightlifting 20th-century Iranian people Place of birth missing (living people) {{Iran-weightlifting-bio-stub