Ehsan Hadadi

Ehsan Hadadi
Ehsan Hadadi in Rio de Janeiro 2016
nation	Iran
birthday	20th January 1985 (age 35)
place of birth	Tehran , Iran
size	193 cm
Weight	110 kg
Career
discipline	Discus throw
Best performance	69.32 m (June 3, 2008 in Tallinn )
Trainer	Kim Buchanzov
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 4 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 6 × 0 × 0 × U20 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver London 2012 68.18 m  World championships bronze Daegu 2011 66.08 m  Asian Games gold Doha 2006 63.79 m gold Guangzhou 2010 67.99 m gold Incheon 2014 65.11 m gold Jakarta 2018 65.71 m Asian Championships gold Incheon 2005 65.25 m gold Amman 2007 65.38 m gold Guangzhou 2009 64.83 m gold Kobe 2011 62.27 m gold Bhubaneswar 2017 64.54 m gold Doha 2019 65.95 m  Junior World Championships gold Grosseto 2004 62.14 m Junior Asian Championships gold Ipoh 2004 62.24 m
last change: November 10, 2019

Ehsan Hadadi ( Persian احسان حدادی; * January 20, 1985 in Tehran ) is an Iranian discus thrower . Since 2008 he has been the holder of the Asian record in discus and one of the most successful Asian athletes ever.

Career

Ehsan Hadadi gained his first international experience at the 2003 Asian Athletics Championships in Manila , where he reached eighth place with 54.40 m. He was also fourth at the Junior Asian Championships in Bangkok . The following year he won with the slightly easier discus both at the Junior Asian Championships in Ipoh with 62.24 m and at the Junior World Championships in Grosseto , where he threw the discus at 62.14 m. In 2005 he won the bronze medal at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Mecca with 58.66 m and then won the Asian Championships in Incheon for the first time with a throw of 65.25 m. In 2006 he was second behind the Lithuanian Virgilijus Alekna at the Athletics World Cup 2006 in Athens with 62.60 m . He then won the gold medal at the Asian Games in Doha with 63.79 m. In 2007 he was again Asian champion in Amman and in his first World Cup participation in Osaka , he reached seventh place with 64.53 m. On June 3, 2008, Hadadi in Tallinn , Estonia , achieved his personal best with a litter of 69.32 m, which is also the current (as of December 2018) Asian record. At the subsequent Olympic Games in Beijing , he was eliminated with 61.34 m in qualification .

In 2009 he won the Asian Championships in Guangzhou for the third time in a row with 64.83 , as well as at the Asian Games there , where he promoted the discus to 67.99 m. Before that, he was third in the Athletics Continental Cup in Spilt with 64.55 m. The following year he won in Kobe with 62.27 m again the title at the Asian Championships and thus qualified again for the World Championships in Daegu , where he won the bronze medal with 66.08 m behind the German Robert Harting and Gerd Kanter from Estonia. In 2012 he participated again in the Olympic Games in London and won the silver medal behind the German Harting with a throw on 68.18 m in the final . He then donated his medal for children with cancer and collected donations for earthquake victims in Azerbaijan and Iran.

Hadadi in the middle at the 2017 award ceremony in Bhubaneswar

In 2013 he won the Islamic Solidarity Games in Palembang , where he threw 66.03 m. At the Asian Games , he secured his third title in a row at these championships with 65.11 m. In 2015 he had to accept a major defeat for a long time on the continental level with no valid attempt at the Asian Championships in Wuhan . Nevertheless, he took part in the World Championships in Beijing, where he was eliminated with 60.39 m in qualification . Also in 2016 he was able to qualify for the final at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro with 60.15 m .

In 2017, he won the silver medal behind the Iraqi Mustafa al-Saamah at the Islamic Solidarity Games with 60.54 m and he was victorious for the fifth time at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 64.54 m. He received a bye for the World Championships in London, where he was eliminated again with 63.03 m in qualification . In 2018 he won the Asian Games in Jakarta with 65.71 m for the fourth time in a row. The following year he won in April with a new championship record of 65.95 m at the Asian Championships in Doha and received a bye for the World Championships there in October. At the World Championships, he made it to the finals , where he finished seventh with a width of 65.16 m.

In 2012 Hadadi was Iranian champion in discus throw.

Web links

Commons : Ehsan Haddadi  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Ehsan Hadadi in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Ehsan Hadadi in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Phil Minshull: Hadadi's discus hat-trick makes Iran happy at the Asian Games ( English ) IAAF. September 30, 2014. Accessed December 25, 2018.
2. ↑ Murali Krishnan: Hadadi wins fifth Asian discus title in Bhubaneswar ( English ) IAAF. July 7, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2018.
3. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Gong and Hadadi dominate, Bahrain takes four titles on the track as Asian Championships kick off in Doha. iaaf, April 21, 2019, accessed April 22, 2019 .