Amir Mohammad Hosseini Explained
| Amir Mohammad Hosseini |
| Birth Date: | 7 November 1998 |
| Birth Place: | Tehran, Iran |
| Education: | Air Force construction |
| Known For: | Taekwondo athlete |
| Height M: | 1.75 |
Amir Mohammad Hosseini (born on 7 November 1998) is an Iranian Taekwondo practitioner who lives in Hamburg, Germany. He is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee athlete scholarship holder for the Tokyo Olympic Games.[1] He participated in World Taekwondo Championships 2019[2] in Manchester and European Championships 2019[3] and also in European Taekwondo Championships 2021[4] as a refugee athlete. He won silver medal at the German Open 2016.[5]
Career
Hosseini was born in Tehran, and began Taekwondo at the age of eight. He left Iran for Germany in 2012[6] and started to participate at national and international tournaments in Europe the following year.[7] In 2019 he became one of only 50 people in the world to receive a scholarship for the Tokyo Olympics 2020[8] which was delayed until 2021 by the COVID-19.[9]
Events
Event! colspan="1" rowspan="1" | G-Rank | Event Date | Location | Place | Ranking Points |
|---|
| Manchester 2019 World Taekwondo Championships | G-12 | 15-19 May 2019 | Manchester, UK | 17 | 12.70 |
| G4 Extra European Championships | G-4 | 1-3 November 2019 | Bari, Italy | 17 | 4.23 |
| 1st WTF President's Cup-European Region | G-2 | 7-10 April 2016 | Bonn, Germany | 17 | 0.53 |
| Croatia Open 2019 | G-1 | 9-10 November 2019 | Zagreb, Croatia | 5 | 2.16 |
| German Open 2019 | G-1 | 30-31 March 2019 | Hamburg, Germany | 5 | 1.62 |
| Dutch Open Taekwondo Championships 2019 | G-1 | 9-10 March 2019 | Eindhoven, Netherlands | 9 | 1.13 |
| Greece Open 2018 | G-1 | 19-21 October 2018 | Athens, Greece | 5 | 1.62 |
| Polish Open Warsaw Cup 2018 | G-1 | 14-16 September 2018 | Warsaw, Poland | 9 | 1.13 |
| Belgian Open 2018 (Kyorugi Divisions) | G-1 | 16-18 March 2018 | Lommel, Belgium | 9 | 0.76 |
| Slovenia Open 2018 | G-1 | 24-25 February 2018 | Maribor, Slovenia | 9 | 0.76 |
| Luxembourg Open 2016 | G-1 | 9-10 July 2016 | Luxembourg | 9 | 0.38 |
| Austrian Open 2016 | G-1 | 4-5 June 2016 | Innsbruck, Austria | 5 | 0.54 |
| GERMAN OPEN 2016 | G-1 | 23-24 April 2016 | Hamburg, Germany | 2 | 1.50 | |
External links
Notes and References
- News: refugee-olympic-team-tokyo-2020-shortlist-announced . Olympic channel .
- Web site: Event: Manchester 2019 World Taekwondo Championships . live . 2021-04-12 . www.simplycompete.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20130530002830/http://simplycompete.com . 2013-05-30.
- Web site: G4 Extra European Championships . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201101005507/https://worldtaekwondoeurope.org/files/G4_Extra_European_Championships_-_Results_-_DAY_1.pdf . 2020-11-01.
- Web site: 2021 European Senior Championships - WT G4 . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210408062716/https://worldtaekwondoeurope.org/files/Draw_lots_day_1_1g4.pdf . 2021-04-08.
- Web site: Taekwondoka überzeugen bei German Open . live . 2021-04-12 . RP ONLINE . de . https://web.archive.org/web/20210412121903/https://rp-online.de/nrw/staedte/duesseldorf/sport/taekwondoka-ueberzeugen-bei-german-open_aid-19717133 . 2021-04-12.
- Web site: Official interview with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency . live . 2021-07-25 . Twitter . en . https://web.archive.org/web/20190819175652/https://twitter.com/Refugees/status/1159644716566233088 . 2019-08-19.
- Web site: Tournaments . live . www.simplycompete.com . https://web.archive.org/web/20210412121905/https://worldtkd.simplycompete.com/playerProfileV2?month=3&year=2020&rankingTypeId=11ea9376-1b54-af01-aefb-0af9674366aa&searchQuery=amir%20mohammad%20hosseini&userId=11e6eef5-9a07-5a52-92b4-12f817a4f090 . 2021-04-12.
- Web site: scholarship holders in contention for Refugee Olympic Team at Tokyo 2020 . live . www.insidethegames.biz . https://web.archive.org/web/20190620234008/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1080954/ioc-announce-37-scholarship-holders-will-attempt-to-be-part-of-refugee-olympic-team-at-tokyo-2020 . 2019-06-20.
- Web site: Japan's Suga insists delayed Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in 2021 . live . www.aljazeera.com . en . https://web.archive.org/web/20210102024131/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/1/2/japan-stresses-commitment-to-tokyo-olympics-in-2021 . 2021-01-02.
