Behdad Salimi

Behdad Salimi Kordasiabi is a former Iranian heavyweight weightlifter, born on 8 December 1989, whose name is also written in Persian script. He won gold medals at the 2012 Olympics, at the Asian Games from 2010 to 2018, at the 2010 and 2011 World Championships and at the Asian Championships from 2009 to 2012. He served as the flag bearer for Iran at the opening ceremony of the 2014 Asian Games. The English Wikipedia lead gives these results only, so this entry records his nationality, sport, birth year and the competitions the lead names, and leaves his lifts, his weight class details and his post-career activity to later sourced work.