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Javad Foroughi
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Personal information
NationalityIran
Born (1979-09-11) 11 September 1979 (age 45)
Dehloran, Iran
Sport
SportShooting
Medal record
Representing  Iran
Men's Shooting
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 10 m air pistol
Asian Shooting Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 10-meter air pistol
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Doha 10m air pistol mixed team

Javad Foroughi (Template:Lang-fa; born 11 September 1979) is an Iranian sport shooter, born in Dehloran. He represented Iran at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in Men's 10 metre air pistol and in Mixed 10 metre air rifle team.[1]

Foroughi competed in the men's 10 metre air pistol competition in the 2020 Olympics on 24 July. He qualified to the final, finishing 5th with a score of 580. In the final he started out in the lead in the 1st competition stage, scoring 101.0, a slight distance to 2nd place Pang Wei with 99.7. In the 2nd competition stage, Foroughi remained in the lead throughout the entire competition, finishing 1st and winning gold ahead of silver medalist Serbian Damir Mikec. Foroughi scored 244.8 and set a new Olympic record.[2]

His medal was Iran’s first medal in Shooting in the history of Olympics. At the age of 41, Foroughi became the oldest medalist in Iranian Olympic history. Mahmoud Namdjou had won a bronze medal at the age of 38 in 1956 Melbourne.[3]

Foroughi is a nurse in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) and served in Syria in 2012-13 as part of the Corps' medical deployment.[4] The IGRC is a designated terrorist organization by the governments of Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United States.[5][6] Iranian human rights organization, United for Navid, set up after the execution of Navid Afkari, decried Foroughi's Olympic medal in a public statement, believing that due to his membership in IRGC, he "is a current and longtime member of a terrorist organization".[7]

References

  1. ^ "Profile - Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympic.com.
  2. ^ "Shooting - Final Results". Olympics.com. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  3. ^ "Shooter Foroughi wins Iran's first gold at Tokyo 2020". Tehrantimes.com. Retrieved 25 July 2021.
  4. ^ "Tokyo Olympics: IRGC member wins Iran's first gold, dedicates medal to Khamenei". Al Arabiya English. 24 July 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
  5. ^ Nicole Gaouette. "Trump designates elite Iranian military force as a terrorist organization". CNN. Archived from the original on 14 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  6. ^ "Saudi, Bahrain add Iran's IRGC to terror lists - SPA". euronews. 23 October 2018. Archived from the original on 10 May 2019. Retrieved 10 May 2019.
  7. ^ "Iranians blast Olympics for praising IRGC 'terrorist' who won gold medal". The Jerusalem Post | JPost.com. Retrieved 24 July 2021.
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