TEHRAN – Iran will send 10 male and five female weightlifters to the 2023 Asian Weightlifting Championships.
The Asian Weightlifting Championships will be held in Jinju, Republic of Korea from May 5 to 13.
The continental championship will be the second qualifying event for the Paris Olympic Games after the World Weightlifting Championships 2022.
Men’s Squad:
Hussein Soltani (81kg), Kianoush Rostami and Mostafa Javadi (89kg), Ayoub Mousavi (96kg), Sohrab Moradi and Reza Dehdar (102kg), Mehdi Karami and Amir Azizi (109kg) and Ayat Sharifi and Alireza Yousefi (+109kg) will represent Iran in the competition.
Women’s Squad:
Reyhaneh Karimi (59kg), Fatemeh Keshavarz (64kg), Elham Husseini and Parisa Nourali (81kg), Zeynab Sheikh Hassan Arbab (87kg)