Jafar salmasi , first medalist at the Olympics

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Mohammad-Jafar Salmasi ( 1918 – 31 January 2000) was a weightlifter who won homeland’s first Olympic medal at 1948 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kadhimiya, Iraq but originally from Salmas, West Azerbaijan.

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