Mehdi Khodabakhshi

Mehdi Khodabakhshi (Persian: مهدی خدابخشی‎, Serbian Cyrillic: Махди Ходабахши; born April 21, 1991 in Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian-born Taekwondo practitioner. He represented Iran until 2019 when he switched allegiance by representing Serbia through naturalisation. He has been involved in the sport for more than 15 years. He has beaten several Taekwondo notables such as Aaron Cook and Steven Lopez and was the world champion. Also he additionally won the gold medal in the welterweight division in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.[1] He is a participant of the 2016 Rio Olympics, but lost in the 1/04-Final against the Iranian born Azeri Milad Beigi Harchegani[2][3]

Mehdi Khodabakhshi
Personal information
NationalityIranian, Serbian
Born (1991-04-21) 21 April 1991
Tonekabon, Iran
Height190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships 1 – –
Asian Games 1 – –
Asian Championships 1 – 1
World Cup – – 1
World Grand Prix 3 1 1
World Championships
2015 Chelyabinsk80 kg
Asian Games
2014 Incheon 80 kg
Asian Championships
2014 Tashkent 80 kg
2018 Ho Chi Minh City 80 kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
2013 Palembang +87 kg

References
  1. "Biographies Mehdi Khodabakhshi". Incheon 2014 official website. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  2. "2016 Rio Olympics".
  3. http://www.taekwondodata.com/mahdi-khodabakhshi.ahsi.html


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