Mahmoud Namdjou

Mahmoud Namdjou medal table
Weightlifting
Iran
Olympic Summer Games
silver	1952 Helsinki	56 kg
bronze	1956 Melbourne	56 kg
World championships
gold	1951 Milan	56 kg
gold	1950 Paris	56 kg
gold	1949 Scheveningen	56 kg
silver	1954 Vienna	56 kg
bronze	1957 Tehran	56 kg
bronze	1955 Munich	56 kg
Asian Games
gold	1951 New Delhi	56 kg
silver	1958 Tokyo	56 kg

Mahmoud Namdjou (born September 22, 1918 in Rasht ; † January 21, 1990 ; Persian محمود نامجو) is an Iranian weightlifter , bodybuilder and participant in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London , 1952 in Helsinki and 1956 in Melbourne .

Life

Namdjou began lifting weights at the age of 20 and participated in Iran's national competitions from 1939. As a result of the war and the post-war period, he had to wait until he was 30 years old before he could take part in his first international championships, the 1948 Olympic Games in London, in 1948. There he took 5th place in the " Bantam weight (56 kg) ". In the world rankings for 1948 compiled by Oscar State , later Secretary General of the International Weightlifting Association, Namdjou was in first place with 310 kg in the Olympic three-way fight, ahead of the 1948 Olympic champion Joseph Di Pietro , United States , 307.5 kg and Asdarov, USSR , 305 kg. In his comment, State writes: “ Namdjou's performance of 310 kg places him at the top of the bantamweights for 1948. So far, however, we have only heard from himself that he is said to have achieved this performance. But I believe that he is actually capable of such an achievement. “How right Oscar State should be, became evident in the next few years, in which Namdjou, despite his advanced age, still achieved many successes, won two Olympic medals and became three times world champion.

In addition to weightlifting, Namdjou was also known as an artist and bodybuilder.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, Ba = bantamweight)

• 1948, 5th place , OS in London , Ba, with 290 kg, behind Joseph Di Pietro , USA, 307.5 kg, Julian Creus, Great Britain , 297.5 kg and Richard Tom, USA, 295 kg;
• 1949, 1st place , World Championships in Scheveningen , Ba, with 312.5 kg, ahead of Kemal Mahgoub, Egypt , 295 kg and Joe de Pietro, 295 kg;
• 1950, 1st place , World Championships in Paris , Ba, with 310 kg, ahead of Rafael Tschimischkjan , USSR, 305 kg and Kemal Mahgoub, 297.5 kg;
• 1951, 1st place , World Championships in Milan , Ba, with 317.5 kg, ahead of Ali Mirzahi, Iran, 305 kg and Kemal Mahgoub, 292.5 kg;
• 1952, silver medal , OS in Helsinki , Ba, with 307.5 kg, behind Iwan Udodow , USSR, 315 kg and in front of Mirzahi, 300 kg;
• 1954, 2nd place , World Championships in Vienna , Ba, with 307.5 kg, behind Bakir Farchutdinow , USSR, 315 kg and in front of Mirzahi 302.5 kg;
• 1955, 3rd place , WM in Munich, Ba, with 312.5 kg, behind Wladimir Stogow, USSR, 335 kg and Charles Vinci , USA, 317.5 kg;
• 1956, bronze medal , OS in Melbourne , Ba, with 332.5 kg, behind Vinci, 342.5 kg and Stogow, 337.5 kg;
• 1957, 3rd place , World Championships in Tehran , Ba, with 320 kg, behind Stogow, 345 kg and Ali Sonboli, Iran, 327.5 kg;
• 1958, 2nd place , Asia Games in Tokyo , Ba, with 315 kg, behind Kogure, Japan, 325 kg and in front of Nogai, Philippines , 297.5 kg

World records

• Pushing with both arms:
  • 128 kg, 1949 in London (OS), bantam weight (56 kg)
• Olympic triathlon:
  • 310 kg, 1948 in Tehran (WM), bantam weight (56 kg)
  • 317.5 kg, 1951 in Milan (World Cup), bantam weight (56 kg)

Web links

• Mahmoud Namdjou in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• profile
• Mahmoud Namdjou as a bodybuilder