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Ali Mirzaei

1929 - 2020

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Ali Mirzaei (Persian: علی میرزایی, 28 January 1929 – 18 July 2020) was an Iranian weightlifter who competed in the 56 kg category. His greatest achievement was winning the bronze medal in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki). He won twice a medal at the World Championships. The silver medal in Milan at the 1951 World Weightlifting Championships and the bronze medal three years later in Vienna at the 1954 World Weightlifting Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ali Mirzaei is the 1,680th most popular athlete (up from 2,137th in 2019), the 413th most popular biography from Iran (up from 452nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Iranian Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ali Mirzaei ranks 1,680 out of 6,025Before him are Pál Simon, Francis Tyler, Burglinde Pollak, Betty McKinnon, Georg Naue, and Arvo Viitanen. After him are Harold Whitlock, Nathaniel Cartmell, Eric Verdonk, Edward Archibald, Nina Dumbadze, and Maria Golubnichaya.

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Among people born in 1929, Ali Mirzaei ranks 475Before him are Bob Brookmeyer, Ursula Knab, Rex Hartwig, Evert Gunnarsson, Irwin I. Shapiro, and Ferdinand Oyono. After him are Jan Hertl, Richard Bass, Harry Blanchard, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Goffredo Parise, and Utpal Dutt. Among people deceased in 2020, Ali Mirzaei ranks 618Before him are Camilla Wicks, Hasan Muratović, Louis Meznarie, Tommy Docherty, Sapardi Djoko Damono, and Marge Champion. After him are Eric Verdonk, Pete Rademacher, Miguel Jones, Gregory Areshian, Seydou Diarra, and Adam Musiał.

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In Iran

Among people born in Iran, Ali Mirzaei ranks 413 out of 631Before him are Ali Hatami (1944), Shahram Nazeri (1950), Dariush (1951), Bahman Ghobadi (1969), Sevdaliza (1987), and Mohammad-Reza Shafiei Kadkani (1939). After him are Firishta (1560), Hadi Khosroshahi (1939), Yusuf Adil Shah (1459), Alireza Faghani (1978), Leila Hatami (1972), and Eshaq Jahangiri (1958).

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Among ATHLETES In Iran

Among athletes born in Iran, Ali Mirzaei ranks 2Before him are Barbara (null). After him are Hadi Choopan (1987), Mahmoud Namjoo (1918), Bahman Golbarnezhad (1968), Hadi Saei (1976), Javad Foroughi (1979), Zahra Nemati (1985), Ehsan Haddadi (1985), Behdad Salimi (1989), Elnaz Rekabi (1989), and Kianoush Rostami (1991).