Morteza Mehrzad
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| Full name | Morteza Mehrzad Selakjani | ||||
| Nationality | Iran | ||||
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17 September 1987 Chalus, Mazandaran, Iran | ||||
| Height | 2.46 m (8 ft 1 in)[1] | ||||
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| Position | Spiker | ||||
| Number | 2[2] | ||||
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Morteza Mehrzad Selakjani is an Iranian male paralympic sitting volleyball player, playing as a spiker.[3] He is part of the Iran men's national sitting volleyball team. He competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.[4] At club level he played for Samen Al Hojjaj Sabzevar in 2015.
He is the tallest man in Iran and the joint second tallest man in the world.[1][5][6]
In the 2016 Summer Paralympics sitting volleyball final, Mehrzadselakjani was the match top scorer with 28 points for Iran.[7]
See also
- Sitting volleyball at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- List of tallest people
- List of humans with gigantism
References
- 1 2 "Morteza Mehrzad - 8 feet 1 inch (246.4 cm)". thetallestman.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ↑ "مرتضی، از دیدار با علی کریمی تا طلای المپیک" (in Persian). Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ↑ "At 8 Feet Tall, This Paralympian Sat Down and Started Getting Noticed". The New York Times. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ↑ "Towering over opponents, Iranian giant Mehrzad begins journey to summit of sitting volleyball". rio2016.com. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ↑ "گزارشی ازمرد غول پیکر والیبال ایران/ورزشکاری که همه را متعجب کرده" (in Persian). Retrieved 13 September 2016.
- ↑ "Meet Iran's sitting volleyball ace, the tallest Paralympian in history".
- ↑ http://www.worldparavolley.org/ir-iran-are-golden-in-rio/
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