Hossein Ojaghi (, born 30

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1975 in

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) is a former competitive

wushu Wushu may refer to: Martial arts * Chinese martial arts, the various martial arts of China * Wushu (sport) Wushu () (), or kung fu, is a competitive Chinese martial art. It integrates concepts and forms from various traditional and modern ...

athlete and

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fighter from

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. He has had an impressive run as a competitive wushu athlete from the late 1990s to the late 2000s and became world champion in 1997, 1999 and 2009, as well as won medals in the

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and the

2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament The 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament ( Chinese: 北京2008武术比赛; pinyin: ''Běijīng 2008 wǔshù bǐsài'') was a wushu competition which was held from August 21 to 24, 2008 at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China. The tourn ...

Achievements

* 1997 World Wushu Championships *

1998 Asian Games The 1998 Asian Games (), officially known as the 13th Asian Games () and the XIII Asiad,, or simply Bangkok 1998 (), were an Asian multi-sport event celebrated in Bangkok, Thailand from December 6 to 20, 1998, with 377 events in 36 sports and di ...

* 1999 World Wushu Championships * 2000 Asian Wushu Championships * 2001 World Wushu Championships * 2002 Sanshou World Cup *

2002 Asian Games The 2002 Asian Games, officially known as the XIV Asian Games and also known as Busan 2002 (), were an international multi-sport event held in Busan, South Korea from September 29 to October 14, 2002. Due to schedule impediments the football tour ...

2003 World Wushu Championships The 2003 World Wushu Championships was the 7th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Indoor Stadium of the Macau Polytechnic Institute in Macau, China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a c ...

* 2004 Asian Wushu Championships *

2007 World Wushu Championships The 2007 World Wushu Championships was the 9th edition of the World Wushu Championships. It was held at the Olympic Sports Center Gymnasium in Beijing, China from November 11 to November 17, 2007. Nearly 1,000 athletes from 89 IWUF national fed ...

* 2008 Asian Wushu Championships * 2008 Wushu Tournament Beijing * 2008 Sanshou World Cup *

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References

Biography
* 1975 births Living people Iranian wushu practitioners Iranian sanshou practitioners Iranian male mixed martial artists Mixed martial artists utilizing sanshou Asian Games gold medalists for Iran Asian Games silver medalists for Iran Asian Games gold medalists in wushu Asian Games silver medalists in wushu Wushu practitioners at the 2002 Asian Games Wushu practitioners at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 1998 Asian Games Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games Competitors at the 2008 Beijing Wushu Tournament 20th-century Iranian sportsmen 21st-century Iranian sportsmen Martial artists from Tehran Iranian martial artists {{Iran-martialart-bio-stub