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Mehdi Yaghoubi

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Personal information
Born	2 April 1930 (1930-04-02) Qazvin, Iran
Died	25 September 2021 (2021-09-26) (aged 91)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Medal record Representing  Iran Olympic Games 1956 Melboourne 57 kg World Championships 1951 Helsinki 57 kg

Mohammad Mahdi Yaghoubi (Persian: محمدمهدی یعقوبی; 2 April 1930 – 25 September 2021) was an Iranian bantamweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1956 in his weight category of under 57 kg. He also won a bronze medal at the 1951 World Wrestling Championships and placed fifth in 1954.

Yaghoubi had four brothers and four sisters. He quit school at the age of 15 to make free time for work and sport.

References

1. ^ Mehdi Yaghoubi. sports-reference.com
2. "مدال‌آوران ایرانی المپیک؛ مهدی یعقوبی". BBC News فارسی (in Persian). 4 April 2012. Retrieved 26 September 2021.
3. Mehdi Yaghoubi. iat.uni-leipzig.de
4. ^ Mahdi Yaghoubi. National Olympic Committee of Iran

External links

• Mehdi Yaghoubi at the International Wrestling Database
• Mehdi Yaghoubi at Olympedia

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Gold medalists	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 medalists	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 medalists	Jafar Salmasi Mahmoud Mollaghasemi Abdollah Mojtabavi Tofigh Jahanbakht Ali Mirzaei Mahmoud Namjoo Mohammad Paziraei Ebrahim Seifpour Esmaeil Elmkhah Ali Akbar Heidari Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran Aboutaleb Talebi Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi Ebrahim Javadi Mohammad Nassiri Amir Reza Khadem (2 titles) Rasoul Khadem Hadi Saei Yousef Karami Alireza Heidari Morad Mohammadi Ehsan Lashgari Saeid Abdevali Ghasem Rezaei Kimia Alizadeh Hassan Rahimi Mohammad Hadi Saravi Amir Hossein Zare Amin Mirzazadeh Mobina Nematzadeh Amir Ali Azarpira

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