Manouchehr Boroumand ( fa, منوچهر برومند, 26 March 1934 – 21 December 2017) was an Iranian heavyweight weightlifter. He was selected for the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

, but withdrew in the last moment due to an illness; he also missed the 1962 Asian Games because Iran did not send a delegation there. At the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

he placed 12th. Boroumand has his best achievements in 1966, when he won a gold medal at the

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and became the first Asian weightlifter to cross the 500 kg barrier in the total, which he has done at the

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. Domestically he held the Iranian heavyweight title between 1961 and 1968. Boroumand married in September 1963 and had three children. He retired from competitions around 1968, and from 1972 to 1980 trained the national weightlifting team. In 1976 he received a degree in coaching from the Polish Sports Academy. Between 1979 and 1985 he headed the Iran Weightlifting Federation.

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* 1934 births 2017 deaths Iranian male weightlifters Iranian strength athletes Olympic weightlifters of Iran Weightlifters at the 1964 Summer Olympics Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 1966 Asian Games Medalists at the 1966 Asian Games People from Babolsar Sportspeople from Mazandaran province 20th-century Iranian people {{iran-Olympic-medalist-stub