Esmaeil Elmkhah
Iranian weightlifter (1936–1988)
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Born | 30 December 1936 Rasht, Imperial State of Iran[1] | |||||||||||||||||
Died | 1988 | |||||||||||||||||
Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in)[2] | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||
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Esmaeil Elmkhah (Persian: اسماعیل علمخواه, 30 December 1936 – 1988) was an Iranian featherweight weightlifter. In 1958 he won a silver medal at the Asian Games and set four unofficial world records: one in the snatch, one in the press and two in the total.[3] He later won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics.[2]
Elmkhah was born in Rasht, but grew up in Tehran. He had a sister, and lost his parents when he was a child.[1]
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- ^ a b Ismail Elm Khah. National Olympic Committee of Iran
- ^ a b Ismail Elm Khah. Sports Reference.com
- ^ HASSAN ESMAIL ELMKHAN. Sports Reference.com
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Olympic medalists for Iran
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![Gold](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/Gold_medal.svg/16px-Gold_medal.svg.png)
- Emam-Ali Habibi
- Gholamreza Takhti
- Mohammad Nassiri
- Abdollah Movahed
- Rasoul Khadem
- Hossein Tavakkoli
- Hossein Rezazadeh (2 titles)
- Alireza Dabir
- Hadi Saei (2 titles)
- Saeid Mohammadpour
- Hamid Sourian
- Omid Norouzi
- Navab Nassirshalal
- Ghasem Rezaei
- Behdad Salimi
- Komeil Ghasemi
- Kianoush Rostami
- Sohrab Moradi
- Hassan Yazdani
- Javad Foroughi
- Mohammad Reza Geraei
- Sajjad Ganjzadeh
- Mohammad Hadi Saravi
- Saeid Esmaeili
- Arian Salimi
![Silver](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/Silver_medal.svg/16px-Silver_medal.svg.png)
- Gholamreza Takhti (2 titles)
- Nasser Givehchi
- Mahmoud Namjoo
- Mehdi Yaghoubi
- Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour
- Parviz Jalayer
- Mohammad Nassiri
- Rahim Aliabadi
- Mansour Barzegar
- Askari Mohammadian (2 titles)
- Abbas Jadidi
- Alireza Rezaei
- Masoud Mostafa-Jokar
- Kianoush Rostami
- Sajjad Anoushiravani
- Ehsan Haddadi
- Mohammad Bagheri Motamed
- Sadegh Goudarzi
- Komeil Ghasemi
- Ali Davoudi
- Hassan Yazdani (2 titles)
- Alireza Mohmadi
- Nahid Kiani
- Mehran Barkhordari
- Amir Hossein Zare
- Rahman Amouzad
![Bronze](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Bronze_medal.svg/16px-Bronze_medal.svg.png)
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