Mehdi Khodabakhshi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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Iranian taekwondo practitioner
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Place of Birth: Eslamshahr, Tehran Province, Iran
About Mehdi Khodabakhshi
- Mahdi Khodabakhshi (Persian: ???? ????????, born April 21, 1991 in Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian-born Taekwondo practitioner.
- 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.
- He is a participant of the 2016 Rio Olympics, but lost in the 1/04-Final against the Iranian born Azeri Milad Beigi Harchegani
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