Zahra Kiani
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Born | 26 September 1999 Harchegan, Iran | (age 24)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 50 kg (110 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wushu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Changquan Jianshu, Qiangshu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Zahra Kiani (Persian: زهرا کیانی; born September 26, 1999, in Harchegan) is a wushu taolu athlete from Iran. She is a four-time world junior champion and a silver medalist at the Asian Games.[1]
Career[edit]
Junior[edit]
Kiani's first major international competition was at the 2010 World Junior Wushu Championships where she earned the silver medal in girl's group C jianshu. She then made her debut at the Asian Junior Wushu Championships in 2011 where she won a gold medal in jianshu and a silver medal in jianshu. Two years later at the 2013 Asian Junior Wushu Championships, she earned a silver medal in jianshu and a bronze medal in changquan. A year later at the 2014 World Junior Wushu Championships, she won two gold medals and a bronze medal. The following year at the 2015 World Wushu Championships, she won the silver medal in compulsory changquan. That same year, she won two gold medals and a silver medal at the 2015 Asian Junior Wushu Championships and achieved the same result at her last junior competition which was the 2016 World Junior Wushu Championships.
Senior[edit]
With her high placements at the 2015 world championships, Kiani qualified for the 2016 Taolu World Cup where she earned a silver medal in changquan and a bronze medal in jianshu. A year later at the 2017 World Wushu Championships, she earned another bronze medal in jianshu.[2] At the 2018 Asian Games, she won the silver medal in women's jianshu and qiangshu combined.[3] Her most recent competition was at the 2019 World Wushu Championships where she won a bronze medal in changquan.
References[edit]
- ^ "profile". 2019-10-22."profile in WUSHU FEDERATION OF I.R.IRAN (in persian)". 2019-10-22.
- ^ "Iranian wushu fighter bags bronze medal in World Wushu Champs". Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
- ^ "Iranian woman athlete bags silver, making history". Islamic Republic News Agency. Retrieved August 21, 2018.
External links[edit]
- Athlete profile at the 2018 Asian Games
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Iranian female martial artists
- Iranian wushu practitioners
- Wushu practitioners at the 2018 Asian Games
- Wushu practitioners at the 2022 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for Iran
- Asian Games medalists in wushu
- People from Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari Province
- Martial arts medalists for Iran