All Hossein Rezazadehs Weightlifting Olympic Medal Lifts, Athlete Highlights
Iranian Weightlifter Hossein Rezazadeh is a twotime Olympic champion, fourtime World Weightlifting champion, and fivetime Asian champion. Rezazadeh surprised many at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, earning a gold medal and breaking the decadesold monopoly on the Gold by the Soviet Union and then Russia. His Olympic gold medal was the first since 1960 by a nonSoviet or nonRussian athlete in the over 105 kg class. He broke his records in the Clean and Jerk at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens again
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