Jafar salmasi , first medalist at the Olympics

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He discovered weightlifting in his late 20s during a trip to capital, and later was asked by the persian government to compete in a national weightlifting tournament. He won, and in 1948 went to London to compete for homeland’s first Olympic team.

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