Mehdi Khodabakhshi

Mehdi Khodabakhshi (Persian: مهدی خدابخشی, Serbian Cyrillic: Махди Ходабахши; born April 21, 1991, in Tonekabon, Iran) is an Iranian-born Serbian Taekwondo practitioner.

He has beaten several Taekwondo notables such as Aaron Cook and Steven Lopez and was the world champion.

Additionally, he won the gold medal in the welterweight division in the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon.

[1] He is a participant of the 2016 Rio Olympics, but lost in the 1/04-Final against the Iranian born Azeri Milad Beigi[2][3] He won his second world title in 2022 World Taekwondo Championships, first time representing Serbia.

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