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Saeid Alihosseini

2018 Asian Games podium, Left-right: Alihosseini, Salimi, Djangabaev

Saeid Alihosseini (Persian: سعيد علی حسينی, born 2 February 1988) is a former Iranian super heavyweight weightlifter. He failed two doping tests in 2006 and October 2009; the latter was originally a lifetime ban, but was reduced upon first appeal to 12 years; in 2011, the ban was reduced to eight years.

Weightlifting career

Doping ban

Saeid had failed two doping tests in 2006 and October 2009;[3] the latter was originally a lifetime ban, but was reduced upon first appeal to 12 years.[4] In 2011, after it was discovered that his coach (who had been banned himself) was doping his athletes without their knowledge, the ban was reduced to eight years.[5]

World Championships

In 2017 he was eligible to return to international competition, and competed at the 2017 World Weightlifting Championships. He won bronze medals in the snatch and clean & jerk, and after his teammate Behdad Salimi had his final clean and jerk overturned by the jury[6] Saeid won the silver medal.[7]

In 2018 Saeid was originally going to compete at the 2018 World Weightlifting Championships, but an injury forced him to withdraw from the competition.[8][9]

Retirement

In November 2019, Alihosseini announced his retirement from the sport after losing hope of competing in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.[10]

Major Results

Major results:[2][11][12]

References

  1. ^ a b c "Alihosseini Saeid". en.asiangames2018.id. Archived from the original on 30 August 2018.
  2. ^ a b IWF.net. "Alihosseini Saeid IRI".
  3. ^ IWF.net. "Doping Sanctions". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  4. ^ ESPN (26 October 2011). "Saeid Ali-Hosseini ban cut to 12 years". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  5. ^ Inside The Games (6 December 2017). "Exclusive: Iranian weightlifter says he was inspired by Justin Gatlin after podium finish following eight year ban". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  6. ^ IWF.net (6 December 2017). "Rio 2016 Olympic champion Talakhadze is the superheavyweight world champion". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  7. ^ Tehran Times (6 December 2017). "Iran's weightlifter Alihosseini wins silver after eight-year doping ban". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  8. ^ Tehran Times (24 September 2018). "Saeid Alihosseini misses 2018 IWF World Championships". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  9. ^ BarBend (24 September 2018). "Saeid Alihosseini not attending 2018 IWF World Championships". Retrieved 28 December 2018.
  10. ^ "Saeid Alihosseini (+109kg) announces retirement from weightlifting". barbend.com. 13 November 2019.
  11. ^ "Hosseini Saeid Ali". iwrp.net.
  12. ^ "9th seniur - 6th Junior Men & Women Asian Interclub Weightlifting championship". Archived from the original on 2012-05-23.
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