Amir Mohammad Hosseini (, born on 7 November 1998) is an Iranian Taekwondo practitioner who lives in Hamburg, Germany. He is an International Olympic Committee (IOC) refugee athlete scholarship holder for the Tokyo Olympic Games. He participated in World Taekwondo Championships 2019 in Manchester and European Championships 2019 and also in European Taekwondo Championships 2021 as a refugee athlete. He won silver medal at the German Open 2016.
Career Hosseini was born in Tehran, and began Taekwondo at the age of eight. He left Iran for Germany in 2012 and started to participate at national and international tournaments in Europe the following year. In 2019 he became one of only 50 people in the world to receive a scholarship for the Tokyo Olympics 2020 which was delayed until 2021 by the COVID-19.
Events +EventG-RankEvent DateLocationPlaceRanking PointsManchester 2019 World Taekwondo ChampionshipsG-1215-19 May 2019Manchester, UK1712.70G4 Extra European ChampionshipsG-41-3 November 2019Bari, Italy174.231st WTF President's Cup-European RegionG-27-10 April 2016Bonn, Germany170.53Croatia Open 2019G-19-10 November 2019Zagreb, Croatia52.16German Open 2019G-130-31 March 2019Hamburg, Germany51.62Dutch Open Taekwondo Championships 2019G-19-10 March 2019Eindhoven, Netherlands91.13Greece Open 2018G-119-21 October 2018Athens, Greece51.62Polish Open Warsaw Cup 2018G-114-16 September 2018Warsaw, Poland91.13Belgian Open 2018 (Kyorugi Divisions)G-116-18 March 2018Lommel, Belgium90.76Slovenia Open 2018G-124-25 February 2018Maribor, Slovenia90.76Luxembourg Open 2016G-19-10 July 2016Luxembourg90.38Austrian Open 2016G-14-5 June 2016Innsbruck, Austria50.54GERMAN OPEN 2016G-123-24 April 2016Hamburg, Germany21.50
References
External links Amir Mohammad Hosseini at Olympic.org