Kaveh_Mousavi

Kaveh Mousavi

Kaveh Mousavi

Iranian hammer thrower

Kaveh Mousavi (Persian: کاوه موسوی, born 27 May 1985 in Urmia) is an Iranian athlete. He competed for Iran in hammer throw at the 2012 Summer Olympics.[1]

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His has a personal best of 77.40 meters achieved in Belarus on 8 July 2016[2] which is the current Iranian record. The record was thrown three before the end of the Rio Olympics qualification period.[3] The date and the unclear circumstances of the throw have led to questions of the validity of the result and IAAF board member Antti Pihlakoski has stated he will investigate the issue.[4][5]

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References

  1. [1]
    London 2012 Archived 2013-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
  2. [2]
    "XI открытые Республиканские соревнования" (PDF). Belarus Athletic Federation. 9 July 2016. p. 8. Archived from the original (PDF) on 15 August 2016. Retrieved 9 July 2016.
  3. [3]
    "Rio 2016 Olympic Games qualification system". IAAF. IAAF. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  4. [4]
    "Questioning the dropout of Tuomas Seppänen "Iranian throwers results suspicious" (article in Finnish)". YLE. Finnish Public Broadcasting Company YLE. 19 July 2016. Retrieved 20 July 2016.
  5. [5]
    GS. BY (2016-07-14), В Жіровичах метали молот, retrieved 2016-07-20


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