Hassan Golestaneh is an Iranian fitness athlete, bodybuilding coach and referee, born in Tehran in 1983. He played football as a boy and took up bodybuilding at fourteen, then turned to jujitsu for seven years after an ankle injury ended his football career at nineteen. From 2009 to 2015 he coached the Iranian team at fitness competitions abroad, earning a Best Coach Award in 2015. Competing in fitness from 2016, he became a world runner-up and the first Iranian world medalist in the discipline, and in 2017 he was the first Iranian athlete to compete in the United States after a travel ban, winning gold at the World Fitness Championships there. He also became the first fitness and bodybuilding referee in Iran and holds several federation roles.
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Golestaneh was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983.
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Golestaneh was born in Tehran, Iran in 1983.
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He is considered the founder of fitness and bodybuilding in Iran.
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