Hossein Tavakkoli

Hossein Tavakkoli
Medal record

Competitor for Iran
Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
	2000 Sydney	105 kg
Asian Games
	2002 Busan	105 kg
Asian Championships
	1999 Wuhan	105 kg
	2004 Almaty	105 kg

Hossein Tavakkoli (Persian: حسین توکلی ‎‎, born January 10, 1978 in Mahmoudabad) is an Iranian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the Men's 105 kg weight class at the 2000 Summer Olympics.

References

Sports-reference.com

Olympic Champions in Weightlifting Heavyweight

1920–1948: +82.5 kg, 1952–1968: +90 kg, 1972–1976: 90–110 kg, 1980–1992: 100–110 kg, 1996: 99–108 kg, 2000–2008: 94–105 kg

1920: Filippo Bottino 1924: Giuseppe Tonani 1928: Josef Straßberger 1932: Jaroslav Skobla 1936: Josef Manger 1948+1952: John Davis 1956: Paul Anderson 1960: Yury Vlasov 1964+1968: Leonid Zhabotinsky 1972: Jaan Talts 1976: Yury Zaitsev 1980: Leonid Taranenko 1984: Norberto Oberburger 1988: Yury Zakharevich 1992: Ronny Weller 1996: Tymur Taymazov 2000: Hossein Tavakkoli 2004: Dmitry Berestov 2008: Andrei Aramnau 2012: Oleksiy Torokhtiy

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