Iranian weightlifting champion Kianoush Rostami <\/a><\/strong>has been nominated by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for Best Lifter of the Year 2016.<\/p>\n

Rostami, who is a world and Olympic champion, has been placed among the candidates for the \u2018Jen\u0151 Boskovics Lifter of the Year Trophies for 2016\u2019 by IWF.<\/p>\n

International Weightlifting Federation has announced names of six men and six women lifters as nominees for the trophy.<\/p>\n

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The voting is now underway on the official website of IWF and the deadline set is 31 January, 2017.<\/p>\n

ranian weightlifter Kianoush Rostami<\/a> won the gold medal in the men\u2019s 85-kg category at the Rio 2016 Olympics Games on August 12, 2016.<\/p>\n

Kianoush Rostami won Iran\u2019s first medal of the Rio 2016 Olympics Games<\/a><\/strong> in the men’s 85-kilogram category and broke his own world record after lifting a total of 396 kilograms.<\/p>\n

The Iranian athlete also won silver medals in 2011 and 2012 Asian Weightlifting Championships, gold in 2011 World Championships and silver 2012 in London Olympics.<\/p>\n

Through online voting the official IWF magazine \u2018World weightlifting\u2019 will determined the best male and female lifters.<\/p>\n

The Lifter of the Year election was initiated by the late Jen\u0151 Boskovics, the founding Editor-in-Chief of the magazine. In Mr. Boskovics\u2019 memory World Weightlifting created a Challenge Trophy. The Trophy is awarded annually to the best male and best female weightlifters of the world. Every year, the new names are engraved on the Trophies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Iranian weightlifting champion Kianoush Rostami has been nominated by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) for Best Lifter of the Year 2016. Rostami, who is a world and Olympic champion, has been placed among the candidates for the \u2018Jen\u0151 Boskovics Lifter of the Year Trophies for 2016\u2019 by IWF. International Weightlifting Federation has announced names of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2400,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[1093,192,191,205],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}