According to IRNA, the Asian Olympic Council met in Uzbekistan and finally decided to postpone the 2022 Hangzhou Asian Games. The time of the new event has not been announced yet, and the news indicates a one-year postponement and even in a pessimistic state, the total cancellation of this important continental event.
But some prominent Iranian athletes who are approaching retirement age have decided to successfully complete their showcase of honors in this important event and perhaps say goodbye to the world of championships, whose plans are now in disarray.
In this report, we take a look at the heroes who suffer from a one-year postponement and perhaps the total cancellation of these games:
Karate / Pourshib and Abbas Ali
Zabihullah Pourshib and Hamideh Abbasali, captains of the Iranian men’s and women’s karate teams, are nearing retirement age.
پرشیب He was born on July 18, 1988 and is now 34 years old. Postponement of competitions will bring him to 35 years old. Perhaps this issue will remove Pourshib, who has brought a lot of bad luck in the last two years, from these games. He missed the Tokyo Olympics because of the strange rules of the World Federation. He could not be present in Tokyo due to the merger of the two high weights while receiving the quota.
Purshib has won gold at the Guangzhou and Jakarta Asian Games and could have won his third medal in Hangzhou.
Abbas Ali He was born on March 14, 1989 and is now 32 years old. He, who has suffered a cruciate ligament rupture twice in the last two years, is now abroad and decided to return to Iran to participate in the Asian Games and participate in the elections.
He holds the gold medal at the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon and the bronze medal in Jakarta, and a one-year postponement of the Hangzhou Games could lead to the end of his time in the national team.
Athletics / Haddadi
Ehsan Haddadi With four consecutive gold medals at the Asian Games, the most honorable Iranian athlete in this event is the continent, whose fifth gold in Hangzhou did not seem far-fetched.
He was born on January 20, 1984, and news of his farewell was heard after the Asian Games. Although he himself denied this, he is unlikely to be able to continue his championship at this age.
Ship / Ghasemi Manjezi
The Asian Games wrestling competitions are held in 6 Olympic weights in freestyle and western wrestling.
امیر قاسمیمنجزی The 34-year-old national team player who had a poor performance in the 2022 Asian Championships in Mongolia, considering the presence of world championship gold medalist Ali Akbar Yousefi and world Olympic gold medalist and gold medalist Amin Mirzazadeh, may have little chance of reaching the national team starting lineup. He did not, but the postponement of the Asian Games also dashed his last hopes.
Manjezi won the 130kg Olympic quota for wrestling at the 2019 World Championships in Kazakhstan, like the 2016 Rio Olympics, but had no place in the national team in Tokyo. He also won a bronze medal in the World Military Championships in December 1400. This foreigner from Masjed-e-Soliman in Khuzestan province has the gold medal of the Asian Championships in 2016 in Bangkok and 2019 in China.
Other people in the national freestyle and western wrestling teams, especially in the Olympic weights, can have a chance to participate in the Asian Games, depending on their age.
Wushu / Mansourian and Seifi sisters
«محسن محمدسیفی» He is one of the geniuses of Iranian sports and was born on September 8, 1968 in Zanjan. He has three Asian Games gold medals and could immortalize his name with a possible fourth gold in Hangzhou. Five gold and one silver of the world can be seen in his record.
Seifi decided to pursue a career in martial arts after attending Hangzhou and possibly winning gold, and at this age, his circumstances are still unclear.
“Shahrbanoo Mansoorian” He is now 36 years old and the Hangzhou Asian Games could have been his last appearance in the world championship, but he also had bad luck.
The Jakarta silver and five-time World Championship gold medalist may not have the youthful vigor and excitement to compete with the world’s best wushu wrestlers, who are mostly in East Asia, by postponing the Asian Games for another year.
Conditions “Goddess Mansoorian” It is a little different because he is now 30 years old, but his presence in professional competitions and foreign training camps completely affects his plans.
Two silver and one bronze medal at the Asian Games and five colorful medals at the World Championships are among the honors of a wushu player who aims to succeed at MMA, and we may not see him at Wushu again with the postponement and cancellation of other Asian Games.
Taekwondo / Sajjad Mardani
He is the heavyweight captain of the national taekwondo team, born in 1988, who failed to win a medal at the Incheon Asian Games, but was highly motivated to attend Hangzhou. Considering the young people who are his weight, maybe Men He can no longer attend this important event.
Weightlifting / Moradi, Rostami, Hashemi and Elham Hosseini
Sohrab Moradi He is one of the athletes for whom the National Olympic Committee and the Ministry of Sports have opened a special account for his participation in the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. Moradi won a gold medal in the 94 kg category at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games four years ago. The world record holder in the 96 kg category is now 33 years and seven months old and suffers from a chronic shoulder injury. He was called up to the national weightlifting team in April this year, but did not attend the camp, so his participation in the Asian Games is in a haze. Experts consider a shoulder injury to be one of Muradi’s major obstacles to the Hangzhou Asian Games and the Paris Olympics.
Kianoosh Rostami Another Iranian weightlifting star is approaching the 31st spring of his life. Although Rostami did not win a medal at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games, he won a silver medal in the 85 kg category at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games. Kianoosh, who has an Olympic silver and gold medal in his record, will most likely be his last destination to win a medal at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
Iran’s proud national weightlifting team currently weighs in at 89 kg and won the gold medal at the 2021 Asian Championships in this category.
Ali Hashemi Another is weightlifting, which, by postponing the Asian Games, may limit its participation in the Iranian national weightlifting team. Hashemi, who has two world adult titles, won a bronze medal in the 105 kg category at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games. He is currently the Iranian national in the 109 kg category.
At 30 years and 8 months old, Hashemi is in the final years of his professional sport, and his results at the World Championships and the Tokyo Olympics show that his records are low. Also, the emergence of Seyed Sol Motamedi, the phenomenon of weightlifting in Iran, will increase the possibility of Hashemi’s retirement.
سیدهالهام حسینی Born on September 16, 1988, she is the first medalist in the history of Iranian women’s weightlifting in international competitions, who won a bronze medal in the Naeem Soleimanoglu Cup in 2009.
For him, too, the Asian Games could be a field for history-making that may be lost.
Basketball / Haddadi
Hamed Haddadi The 37-year-old captain of the national basketball team, who has a history of participating in several prominent domestic and foreign clubs, has 2 silver and 1 bronze medal in the Asian Games along with the Iranian national team.
He will also suffer from the postponement of the Asian Games with a collection of prestigious medals along with the Iranian national team, because the Iranian national team is on the path of youthfulness and skinning.
Fencing / Abedini
Mojtaba Abedini is one of the people who, after the relative recovery of his injury, is thinking of participating in the Asian Games. He is now 37 years old and the postponement of the Asian Games may not allow him to return to this important continental arena.
The captain of the Saber national fencing team, who also has a history of participating in the Olympics, became a coach during his injury, and now he intends to return to the world of fencing as an athlete to win another medal and honor for himself and Iranian sports. Brought.
Handball / four influential players
In team sports, it is usually a blessing to have a few experienced players in the squad, but given the age of some of the players in the Iranian national handball team, it is unlikely that they will have a chance to attend the event with a one-year postponement or cancellation. .
Mohammad Siavashi, 37, Allah Karam Esteki, 34, Sajjad Esteki, 32, and Mojtaba Haidarpour, 34, are five older players in the national team.