Morteza Mehrzad

Morteza Mehrzad
Morteza Mehrzad
Full name	Morteza Mehrsadselakjani
nation	Iran
birthday	17th September 1987
place of birth	Chalus ,  Iran
size	246 cm
Career
discipline	Sitting volleyball
status	active
Medal table
Paralympic Games gold 2016 Rio Sitting volleyball
last change: May 1st, 2017

Morteza Mehrzad (born September 17, 1987 in Chalus as Morteza Mehrsadselakjani ) is an Iranian sitting volleyball player who won the gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics . With a height of 2.46 m he is one of the tallest people alive .

Mehrzad, who was born with acromegaly , is dependent on crutches due to his extreme height and who suffered from a leg 15 cm shorter after a bicycle accident in his teens, only got into sitting volleyball at the age of 23. Within a few years he developed into an effective outside attacker in Iranian sitting volleyball clubs and became Paralympic winner in 2016 with the Iranian sitting volleyball team. There he usually did not play from the beginning, but ensured with a seated two-handed block height of 1.96 m and a seated reach radius of 2, 30 m for opposing teams regularly avoiding his side.

Web links

• Short biography at www.paralympic.org
• Report at sportschau.de
• Report at rp-online.de
• Report at telegraph.co.uk