Mehdi Khodabakhshi
Personal information
NationalityIranian, Serbian
Born (1991-04-21) 21 April 1991
Tonekabon, Iran
Height190 cm (6 ft 3 in)
Sport
SportTaekwondo
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
World Championships 2 – –
European Championships - 1 -
Asian Games 1 – –
Asian Championships 1 – 1
World Cup – – 1
World Grand Prix 3 1 1
Representing  Serbia
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 Guadalajara87 kg
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2021 Sofia87 kg
Representing  Iran
World Championships
Gold medal – first place2015 Chelyabinsk80 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 Incheon 80 kg
Asian Championships
Gold medal – first place 2014 Tashkent 80 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Ho Chi Minh City 80 kg
Islamic Solidarity Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Palembang +87 kg

Mehdi Khodabakhshi (Persian: مهدی خدابخشی, Serbian Cyrillic: Махди Ходабахши; born April 21, 1991, in Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian-born Serbian Taekwondo practitioner. He was two times world champion, in 2014 and in 2022.

Career

He represented Iran until 2019 when he switched allegiance by representing Serbia through naturalisation. He has been involved in the sport for more than 15 years. He has beaten several Taekwondo notables such as Aaron Cook and Steven Lopez and was the world champion. Also he additionally won the gold medal in the welterweight division in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.[1] He is a participant of the 2016 Rio Olympics, but lost in the 1/04-Final against the Iranian born Azeri Milad Beigi[2][3] He won his second world title in 2022 World Taekwondo Championships, first time representing Serbia.

References

  1. ↑ "Biographies Mehdi Khodabakhshi". Incheon 2014 official website. Archived from the original on 7 October 2014. Retrieved 20 October 2014.
  2. ↑ "2016 Rio Olympics". Archived from the original on 2016-12-26.
  3. ↑ "TaekwondoData".
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