Jafar Salmasi

Medal record
Jafar Salmasi
Competitor for  Iran
Men's weightlifting
Olympic Games
Bronze	1948 London	60 kg
Asian Games
Gold	1951 New Delhi	60 kg

Mohammad Jafar Salmasi (Persian: محمد جعفر سلماسی, September 22, 1918 – January 31, 2000) was a Iranian weightlifter who won Iran's first Olympic medal at 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kadhimiya, Iraq.

He then won the gold medal at the 1951 Asian Games in New Delhi. He was the Iranian champion in the featherweight weight class for five years, 1944 through 1948. He died in Tehran in January, 2000.

References

• Biography
• www.chidlovski.net
• Jafar Salmasi's profile at Sports Reference.com

Persondata
Name	Salmasi, Jafar
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Short description
Date of birth	September 22, 1918
Place of birth
Date of death	January 31, 2000
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