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Place of Birth: Tehran, Tehran Province, Iran
About Mohammad Nassiri
- Mohammad Nasiri Seresht (Persian: ???? ????? ?????, born 31 July 1945) is a retired Iranian weightlifter.
- He competed at the 1964, 1968, 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal.
- He also won gold medals at the Asian Games in 1966, 1970 and 1974 and at the world championships in 1968-70 and 1973-74, placing second in 1972 and third in 1966, 1971 and 1976.
- Between 1966 and 1973 he set 15 ratified world records: 10 in clean and jerk, 3 in the press and 2 in the total.
- In 1995 he was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.Nasiri took up weightlifting aged 13.
- He mostly competed in the 56 kg category, but for the 1973 World Championships in Havana he lowered his body weight to 52 kg, and even shaved his head for that.
- In Havana he set four world records within one day.
- He stayed in the 52 kg division for the rest of his career.
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