Padideh Boloorizadeh ( fa, پدیده بلوری‌زاده , born in December 1974 in

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 popul ...

) is an Iranian

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete and

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

player. Padideh started track and field at a very young age and started setting new records. She set a new record of 1.64 meters for the Iranian women's

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

in 1996 after 23 years. She also broke Iran's record in different events

pentathlon A pentathlon is a contest featuring five events. The name is derived from Greek: combining the words ''pente'' (five) and -''athlon'' (competition) ( gr, πένταθλον). The first pentathlon was documented in Ancient Greece and was part of t ...

heptathlon A heptathlon is a track and field combined events contest made up of seven events. The name derives from the Greek επτά (hepta, meaning "seven") and ἄθλος (áthlos, or ἄθλον, áthlon, meaning "competition"). A competitor in a hept ...

and

60 meter hurdles 60 metres hurdles is a distance in hurdling which is generally run in indoor competitions. It is equivalent with the first 5 hurdles of a standard outdoor hurdle race. The current women's and men's world records are 7.68 seconds ( Susanna K ...

in Iran. Padideh is an IAAF level 4 jumps coach and a level 2 IAAF coaching course lecturer. She coached several Iranian sprinters and combined event athletes that led to new national records and Asian podium during the years. Other than track and field, she has been involved in volleyball and was a member of the Iranian national volleyball team for many years. She was selected as Iran Women National Volleyball team captain in 2004 to lead the team in their first attendance in the Women's Asian Volleyball Championships. She is a FIVB certified level 2 coach and served the national and select club teams as strength and conditioning and assistant coach after retiring from playing herself. She worked for Iran University of science and technology since 1992, while teaching at an invitee course instructor at Islamic Azad University, Shahid Beheshty University, Alzahra University as well as Iran Olympic Academy, Volleyball and Athletics federations as the coaching course lecturer. She also worked at Athletics Canada as the manager in coach development and training. She holds a PhD in sport management and planning from Islamic Azad University-Central Tehran branch.

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Living people 1974 births Iranian women's volleyball players Pentathletes Iranian female high jumpers Heptathletes Iranian female long jumpers Iranian female hurdlers Sportspeople from Tehran {{Iran-volleyball-bio-stub