Hossein Tavakoli

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Hossein Tavakoli medal table

Weightlifting

IranIran Iran
Olympic Summer Games
gold 2000 Sydney 105 kg
Asian Championships
gold 1999 Wuhan 105 kg
silver 2004 Almaty 105 kg
Asian Games
bronze 2002 Busan 105 kg

Hossein Tavakoli (born January 10, 1978 in Mahmoudabad; Persian حسین توکلی) Is an Iranian weightlifter in the heavyweight and participants at the Summer Olympics in 2000 in Sydney .

He won the gold medal in the 105 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney . At the Asian Championships in 1999, which took place in Wuhan, Tavakoli competed in the 105 kg weight class and won the gold medal. Other significant achievements of Tavakolis are winning the silver medal at the 2004 Asian Championships in Almaty and the bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha.