Rasoul Khadem

Rasoul Khadem medal table
Rasoul Khadem
Wrestling (men)
Iran
Olympic Summer Games
gold	1996 Atlanta	Freestyle 90 kg
bronze	1992 Barcelona	Freestyle 82 kg
World championships
gold	1994 Istanbul	Freestyle 90 kg
gold	1995 Atlanta	Freestyle 90 kg
silver	1998 Tehran	Freestyle 130 kg
Asian Games
gold	1994 Hiroshima	Freestyle 90 kg
silver	1990 Beijing	Freestyle 68 kg
Asian Championships
gold	1991 New Delhi	Freestyle 82 kg
gold	1992 Tehran	Freestyle 82 kg
gold	1993 Ulan Bator	Freestyle 90 kg
gold	1995 Manila	Freestyle 90 kg
gold	1996 Xiaoshan	Freestyle 90 kg

Rasoul Khadem Azghadi ( Persian رسول خادم, Born February 17, 1972 in Mashhad ) is a former Iranian wrestler and current politician .

Rasoul Khadem and his brother Amir Reza Khadem were trained by their father Mohammad Khadem . At the 1992 Olympic Games , he won the bronze medal in the men's 82 kg freestyle. Four years later in Atlanta he won the gold medal in the men's 90 kg freestyle, after having been world champion in this discipline in 1994 and 1995. His last major success was a silver medal at the World Wrestling Championships in 1998 in Tehran .

Rasul Khadem has been a member of the Tehran City Council since 2003 and is attributed to the political camp of Mayor Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf . In September 2014 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FILA Announces Class of 2014 Hall of Famers: Sixteen Individuals to be Inducted in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, on September 6 , accessed on April 16, 2017 (English)

Web links

• Profile of Rasoul Khadem at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Rasoul Khadem in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )