Amir Mohammad Hosseini

Iranian Taekwondo practitioner

Amir Mohammad Hosseini

Born| 7 November 1998

Tehran, Iran

Education| Air Force construction
Known for| Taekwondo athlete
Height| 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)

Amir Mohammad Hosseini (Persian: امیر محمد حسینی, 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[edit]

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[edit]

Event  | G-Rank  | Event Date  | Location  | Place  | Ranking Points

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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

## References[edit]

1. ^ "refugee-olympic-team-tokyo-2020-shortlist-announced". Olympic channel.
2. ^ "Event: Manchester 2019 World Taekwondo Championships". www.simplycompete.com. Archived from the original on 2013-05-30. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
3. ^ "G4 Extra European Championships" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-11-01.
4. ^ "2021 European Senior Championships - WT G4" (PDF). Archived (PDF) from the original on 2021-04-08.
5. ^ "Taekwondoka überzeugen bei German Open". RP ONLINE (in German). Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
6. ^ "Official interview with UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency". Twitter. Archived from the original on 2019-08-19. Retrieved 2021-07-25.
7. ^ "Tournaments". www.simplycompete.com. Archived from the original on 2021-04-12.
8. ^ "scholarship holders in contention for Refugee Olympic Team at Tokyo 2020". www.insidethegames.biz. Archived from the original on 2019-06-20.
9. ^ "Japan's Suga insists delayed Tokyo Olympics will go ahead in 2021". www.aljazeera.com. Archived from the original on 2021-01-02.

## External links[edit]

* Amir Mohammad Hosseini at Olympic.org
* Amir Mohammad Hosseini at TaekwondoData.com
* Amir Mohammad Hosseini on Instagram

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