Serkan Yıldırım, born Sajjad Hashemi Ahangari in Tabriz, Iran, on 22 August 1991, is a sprinter who has competed for both Iran and Turkey. As an able-bodied athlete for Iran he ran the 400 m, won the 400 m at the 2010 Asian Junior Athletics Championships, broke the Iranian 400 m record with 45.81 seconds when winning gold at the 2011 Military World Games, and ran the 400 m at the 2012 Summer Olympics. His eyesight worsened until he could no longer see the track lines, so he moved to para athletics for Turkey in the B2 classification and won the 100 m T12 and 400 m T12 at the 2024 World Para Athletics Championships in Kobe. His classification was then placed under review, and after a German court injunction let him run the 100 m T12 at the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris, his gold medal was revoked on 3 September 2024 when the injunction was overturned on appeal.
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is an Iranian-born Turkish athlete
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Sajjad Hashemi Ahangari on 22 August 1991 in Tabriz
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is an Iranian-born Turkish athlete
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He has competed at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games competing in the 100 m and 400 m sprint events
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He has competed at both the Olympic and Paralympic Games
Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, Sport career, In Iran
Hashemi ran the 400 m for Iran at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
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