
Saeid Alihosseini ( fa, سعيد علی حسينی, born 2 February 1988) is a former Iranian super heavyweight weightlifter. He failed two doping tests in 2006 and October 2009; the latter was originally a lifetime ban, but was reduced upon first appeal to 12 years; in 2011, the ban was reduced to eight years.
Weightlifting career
Doping ban
Saeid had failed two doping tests in 2006 and October 2009; the latter was originally a lifetime ban, but was reduced upon first appeal to 12 years. In 2011, after it was discovered that his coach (who had been banned himself) was doping his athletes without their knowledge, the ban was reduced to eight years.
World Championships
In 2017 he was eligible to return to international competition, and competed at the
2017 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2017 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Anaheim, California, United States from 28 November to 5 December 2017.
Doping bans
Nine countries were banned from competing at the World Championships due to their history of doping at p ...
. He won bronze medals in the snatch and clean & jerk, and after his teammate
Behdad Salimi had his final clean and jerk overturned by the jury Saeid won the silver medal.
In 2018 Saeid was originally going to compete at the
2018 World Weightlifting Championships
The 2018 World Weightlifting Championships were held in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from 1 to 10 November 2018. The logo of IWF World Championships 2018 has consisted of abstract illustration of weightlifting athlete designed by Ashgabat based design fi ...
, but an injury forced him to withdraw from the competition.
Retirement
In November 2019, Alihosseini announced his retirement from the sport after losing hope of competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.
Major Results
Major results:
References
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1988 births
People from Ardabil
Iranian male weightlifters
Living people
Iranian sportspeople in doping cases
Doping cases in weightlifting
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
Weightlifters at the 2018 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Iran
Asian Games medalists in weightlifting