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He is the a 25 year old National Champion, Olympic champion, World Champion.
The year was 2000, occasion was Olympics, when a mere 22 year old big boy entered the arena. He was competing for the +105kg(heaviest) Weight Lifting category in simple this 22 year old boy had to raise the heaviest weight than any other competitor No on even he himself was expecting to
win any medal or do any thing special .And as he watched before his turn his experienced competitor went and broke one record then another. Then came his turn, every one was relaxed that World record lifts have just been made so what can this boy do, he just entered in the wrong occasion at the wrong time ,he went on the stage moved his both hands upward and looked at the top and shouted loud ALLAH-HO-AKBAR then he put his hand on the Weight which was heavier then any man had picked and with a snatch he picked up the weight ,the next thing people knew the boy was lifting the world record .He had lifted 468 1/4 pounds (212.5 kg) in the snatch category (you have to lift the weight at once) and had just smashed the world record made few minutes ago But the shock was not over and then in the, clean and jerk category (you have to first put weight below your neck and then raise it above you) he raised up 573 pounds (260 kg) on a single lift to to break another World Record of Overall Weight Lifted 1,025 1/4 pounds (465 kg).He won the Olympic super heavyweight gold.
His next achievement came in the World Weight Lifting Championships in 2002, there he broke World Record of Total Weight lifted by lifting 472.5kg.He outclassed all of competitors in both clean and jerk, snatch categories to win 3 gold medals and becoming World Heavy Weight Lifting Champion.
After his spectacular performance, he was offered by Turkey’s Weightlifting Federation sum of US$20,000 a month, as well as a luxury villa and US$10 million reward if he switches flag and wins gold for the country at the 2004 Athens Olympics.
Rezazadeh rejected the tempting offer saying, “I am an Iranian and love my country and people.” Real Gentlemen ship he showed.
In 2003 World Weight Lifting Championships held in Canada, he had leg injury but still managed to win the Gold Medal in Snatch, bronze medal in clean and jerk and Gold in combined weight lifted and retained the Championship Title.
Now he is looking ahead at Greece Olympics.
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