Mahmoud Namjoo
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Born | September 22, 1918 Rasht, Iran[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | January 21, 1989 (aged 70) Tehran, Iran[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mahmoud Namjoo (Persian: محمود نامجو, September 22, 1918 – January 21, 1989) was an Iranian bantamweight weightlifter. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics and placed fifth, second and third, respectively. At the world championships he won three gold, one silver and two bronze medals between 1949 and 1957,[1][2] becoming the first Iranian weightlifter to win a world title. Namjoo was also the first Asian weightlifter to set a world record;[3] during his career he set four: one in clean and jerk in 1949 and three in the total, in 1948, 1949 and 1951.[4]
Namjoo was born in Rasht in 1918 and in 1937 moved to Tehran, where he worked at a carpentry workshop. He took weightlifting in a gym nearby. Besides weightlifting he also competed in bodybuilding, and won the Mr. Universe title in his weight division in 1948, placing fifth in 1955.[5] In 1956 he spent two months working as a weightlifting coach in Turkey. He continued training in his forties and unsuccessfully tried to qualify for the 1960 Olympics.[2] He died of pancreatic cancer aged 70.[3]
External links
Mahmoud Namjoo at Olympedia
References
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- ^ a b c Mahmoud Namjoo. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b Mahmoud Namjoo. National Olympic Committee of Iran
- ^ a b Mahmoud Namjoo. takhtejamshidcup.com
- ^ MAHMOUD NAMJOU. chidlovski.net
- ^ Mahmoud Namdjou. musclememory.com
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Preceded by Mostafa Baharmast [fa] | Flagbearer for ![]() Helsinki 1952 | Succeeded by Mahmoud Namjoo |
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Preceded by Mahmoud Namjoo | Flagbearer for ![]() Melbourne 1956 | Succeeded by |
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- 1947:
Joseph DePietro (USA)
- 1949:
Mahmoud Namjoo (IRI)
- 1950:
Mahmoud Namjoo (IRI)
- 1951:
Mahmoud Namjoo (IRI)
- 1953:
Ivan Udodov (URS)
- 1954:
Bakir Farkhutdinov (URS)
- 1955:
Vladimir Stogov (URS)
- 1957:
Vladimir Stogov (URS)
- 1958:
Vladimir Stogov (URS)
- 1959:
Vladimir Stogov (URS)
- 1961:
Vladimir Stogov (URS)
- 1962:
Yoshinobu Miyake (JPN)
- 1963:
Aleksey Vakhonin (URS)
- 1964:
Aleksey Vakhonin (URS)
- 1965:
Imre Földi (HUN)
- 1966:
Aleksey Vakhonin (URS)
- 1968:
Mohammad Nassiri (IRI)
- 1969:
Mohammad Nassiri (IRI)
- 1970:
Mohammad Nassiri (IRI)
- 1971:
Gennady Chetin (URS)
- 1972:
Imre Földi (HUN)
- 1973:
Atanas Kirov (BUL)
- 1974:
Atanas Kirov (BUL)
- 1975:
Atanas Kirov (BUL)
- 1976:
Norair Nurikyan (BUL)
- 1977:
Jiro Hosotani (JPN)
- 1978:
Daniel Núñez (CUB)
- 1979:
Anton Kodzhabashev (BUL)
- 1980:
Daniel Núñez (CUB)
- 1981:
Anton Kodzhabashev (BUL)
- 1982:
Anton Kodzhabashev (BUL)
- 1983:
Oksen Mirzoyan (URS)
- 1984:
Wu Shude (CHN)
- 1985:
Neno Terziyski (BUL)
- 1986:
Mitko Grablev (BUL)
- 1987:
Neno Terziyski (BUL)
- 1989:
Hafız Süleymanoğlu (URS)
- 1990:
Liu Shoubin (CHN)
- 1991:
Chun Byung-kwan (KOR)
- 1993:
Nikolaj Pešalov (BUL)
- 1994:
Nikolaj Pešalov (BUL)
- 1995:
Leonidas Sabanis (GRE)
- 1997:
Stefan Georgiev (BUL)
- 1998:
Halil Mutlu (TUR)
- 1999:
Halil Mutlu (TUR)
- 2001:
Halil Mutlu (TUR)
- 2002:
Wu Meijin (CHN)
- 2003:
Wu Meijin (CHN)
- 2005:
Wang Shin-yuan (TPE)
- 2006:
Li Zheng (CHN)
- 2007:
Cha Kum-chol (PRK)
- 2009:
Long Qingquan (CHN)
- 2010:
Wu Jingbiao (CHN)
- 2011:
Wu Jingbiao (CHN)
- 2013:
Om Yun-chol (PRK)
- 2014:
Om Yun-chol (PRK)
- 2015:
Om Yun-chol (PRK)
- 2017:
Thạch Kim Tuấn (VIE)
- 2018:
Eko Yuli Irawan (INA)
- 2019:
Li Fabin (CHN)
- 2021:
Shin Rok (KOR)
- 2022:
Li Fabin (CHN)
- 2023:
Li Fabin (CHN)
- 56 kg (1947–1991)
- 59 kg (1993–1997)
- 56 kg (1998–2017)
- 61 kg (2018–)
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