Rasoul Khadem
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| Member of City Council of Tehran | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| In office 29 April 2003 – 3 September 2013 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | Rasoul Khadem Azghadi 18 March 1972 Mashhad, Iran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Political party | Independent | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Relatives | Amir Reza Khadem (brother) Ebrahim Khadem (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Iran | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rasoul Khadem Azghadi (Persian: رسول خادم ازغدی, born March 18, 1972) is a former Iranian wrestler who has won a bronze medal in the 1992 Summer Olympics and a gold medal in the 1996 Summer Olympics. He was also the 1994 and 1995 world champion and 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995 and 1996 Asian champion. He was trained by his father Mohammad Khadem, and he is also the younger brother of Olympic wrestling bronze medalists Amir Reza Khadem and Ebrahim Khadem.
He was the president of Islamic Republic of Iran Wrestling Federation from January 4, 2014, to November 3, 2018. He was also the technical director of Iran's wrestling national teams and the head coach of Iran's freestyle national team from January 2012 to 2018. In addition, he was elected as an executive board member of National Olympic Committee of Iran on January 20, 2014, and served until January 2018.