Mehdi Zamani
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Iran
Asian Indoor Athletics Championships
Gold medal – first place2010 Tehran4×400 m relay
Gold medal – first place2014 Hangzhou400 m

Mehdi Zamani (Persian: مهدی زمانی; born 20 December 1989) is an Iranian track and field sprinter who specialises in the 400 metres, who was banned for two years for doping.[1]

Career

He started out as an 800 metres runner. He placed sixth in that event at the 2010 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, held in Tehran, and anchored the 4×400 metres relay team to the gold medal (his first international podium finish).[2]

He was banned from competition for two years from June 2011 to 2013 after a positive doping test for the banned steroid methandienone.[3]

He returned to action in 2013 as a sprint specialist and after the expiry of his doping ban helped break the Iranian record of 39.69 seconds for the 4×100 metres relay, running alongside Reza Ghasemi, Ali Reza Habibi, and Hassan Taftian.[4] At the 2014 Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, he won the individual 400 metres gold medal after setting a personal best of 47.62 seconds to win at the Iranian Championships.[5]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Mehdi Zamani at World Athletics
  2. ↑ 2010 Asian Indoor Championships Results. Asian Athletics Association (archived). Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  3. ↑ Athletes currently suspended from all competitions in athletics following an Anti-Doping Rule Violation as at: 11.1.13. IAAF. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  4. ↑ رکورد دو 4 در 100 متر امدادی ایران شکسته شد (in Persian). Iranian Athletics Federation. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
  5. ↑ Mehdi Zamani. Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2014-02-17.
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