Behdad Salimi Kordasiabi ( fa, بهداد سلیمی كردآسیابی, born 8 December 1989) is former Iranian heavyweight weightlifter. He won gold medals at the

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, 2010–2018 Asian Games,

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and 2011 World Championships and 2009–2012 Asian Championships. He served as the flag bearer for Iran at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games.

Career

At the

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Salimi won the gold medal in the +105kg category. Salimi won gold again in the +105kg category at the

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with a 205kg

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and a 235kg

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. Salimi won the gold medal at the

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on 13 November 2011, and set a new snatch world record of 214kg. Salimi became the 2012 Olympic gold medalist in the +105kg category on 7 August 2012 with a 208kg snatch and a 247kg clean and jerk for a total of 455kg. Despite a torn ACL, total knee re-construction and over two years out of the game, Behdad Salimi returned to weightlifting in 2016 to compete in th
Fajr Cup
held in

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and won gold. At the Rio 2016 Olympics, he broke the world record snatch set moments before by

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, making 216kg, in the clean and jerk he initially completed a lift of 245kg which was approved by 2 of the three judges before being disqualified by the 5 member jury. Iran’s National Olympics Committee filed an application to the

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. The

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website was hacked the next morning and its Instagram page flooded with over 285,000 comments.

Leaving National Team

After

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he and other Olympic medalists of Iran protested against Iran's national weightlifting team head coach

Kourosh Bagheri Kourosh Bagheri ( fa, كوروش باقری, born 21 September 1977 in Kermanshah) is a former Iranian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the Men's 94 kg weight class at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships. Bagheri was also holdi ...

for using offensive language in training and declined to attend national team exercises. As a result of a heavy argument on a live TV debate between Salimi and

, the Iranian Weightlifting Federation dismissed Salimi and other weightlifters, and did not invite any of the London medalists for the

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and

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Retirement

After winning his third gold medal at the

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, with a total of 461kg, Salimi announced his retirement from the sport.سایت شبکه ورزش – بهداد سلیمی در گفتگوی اختصاصی با شبکه ورزش سیما از دنیای حرفه ای خداحافظی کرد ,بهداد سلیمی
. Varzeshtv.ir. Retrieved on 30 August 2018.

Major results

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