Reza Alipour Shenazandifard ( fa, رضا علیپور شنازندی فرد, born 29 َApril 1994) is an
Iranian
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speed climber from
Qazvin
Qazvin (; fa, قزوین, , also Romanized as ''Qazvīn'', ''Qazwin'', ''Kazvin'', ''Kasvin'', ''Caspin'', ''Casbin'', ''Casbeen'', or ''Ghazvin'') is the largest city and capital of the Province of Qazvin in Iran. Qazvin was a capital of the ...
.
He is nicknamed the "Persian Cheetah".
In 2013 at the World Cup in Haiyang, China, he broke the world record and registered 06.24 seconds to win the first gold medal in speed climbing in Iranian history.
Then in 2014 in Spain, he registered 05.97 seconds and broke his own Iranian record in speed climbing.
The International Federation of Sport Climbing
IFSC titled him an
Asiatic cheetah
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.
Upon setting the new
world record
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of 5.48 seconds at the IFSC World Cup Nanjing, he was named the
Usain Bolt
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An eight- ...
of speed climbing.
On April 30, 2017, in Nanjing, China, Alipour set a new world record; scaling a 15-meter wall in 5.48 seconds, snatching the gold medal, and shattering the previous record of 5.60 seconds held by Ukraine's
Danyil Boldyrev.
He has been crowned the 2017 International World Games Association (IWGA) Athlete of the Year. Alipour received 90,790 votes in the contest with second place going to Ukrainian powerlifter Larysa Soloviova, who scored 90,036.
He also finished in first place at the 18th
Asian Games
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in Palembang in Men's Speed Climbing competition, Zhong Qixin from China won the silver medal and bronze medal went to Indonesian climber Aspar Jaelolo. Iranian speed climber Reza Alipour seats top at the latest 2018 World Ranking published by International Federation of Sport Climbing IFSC and collecting 324.68 points and Bassa Mawem of France and Dmitrii Timofeev of Russia stand next with 318.59 and 316.01 points respectively
His cousin, Mehdi, also competes as a speed climber.
World Cup podiums
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1994 births
Living people
World Games gold medalists
Competitors at the 2017 World Games
Asian Games medalists in sport climbing
Asian Games gold medalists for Iran
Sport climbers at the 2018 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
People from Qazvin
21st-century Iranian people
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