Hamid Sajjadi

Hamid Sajjadi
Minister of Sport and Youth
In office 25 August 2021 – 1 August 2023
President	Ebrahim Raisi
Preceded by	Masoud Soltanifar
Succeeded by	Kioumars Hashemi
Personal details
Born	Seyed Hamid Sajjadi Hazaveh (1969-03-21) 21 March 1969 (age 55) Tehran, Imperial State of Iran
Sports career
Country	Iran
Sport	Men's athletics
Event(s)	3000 metres steeplechase, 5000 metres, 10,000 metres
Sports achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	1500 metres: 3:41.66[1] 3000-m steeplechase: 8:33.89[1] 5000 metres: 13:53.40[1] 10,000 metres: 29:22.65[1]
Medal record Asian Games 1998 Bangkok 3000 m st. Asian Championships 1991 Kuala Lumpur 3000 m st. 1993 Manila 3000 m st. 1995 Jakarta 3000 m st. 1998 Fukuoka 3000 m st. 2000 Jakarta 3000 m st. Asian Cross Country Championships 1993 Jakarta Senior Men Individual Asian Junior Championships 1988 Singapore 2000 m st. 1988 Singapore 1500 m. 1988 Singapore 800 m.

Seyed Hamid Sajjadi Hazaveh (Persian: سید حمید سجادی هزاوه, born 21 March 1969) was the Minister of Sport and Youths of Iran, from August 25, 2021 to August 1, 2023. He is also an Iranian retired middle distance and long distance runner. He represented Iran at the 1992 Summer Olympics and 1996 Summer Olympics. Sajjadi holds multiple indoor and outdoor national track records for Iran.^{[citation needed]} On February 23, 2023, his helicopter crashed while visiting Baft county. He survived from accident, but his deputy was killed.

Running career

Sajjadi ran the men's 5,000 m race at the 1992 Summer Olympics, although he did not qualify past the preliminaries with a time of 14:04.54 (min:sec). Sajjadi also ran the men's 10,000 metres at the 1996 Summer Olympics, finishing in 29:22.65. Throughout the 1990s, he was a prolific steeplechaser, specializing in the 3000 metres steeplechase in which he finished in first place at the 1991 Asian Athletics Championships.^[2]

Academic and administrative career

Sajjadi has a PhD in physiology and is also a lecturer at Azad University. He was at one point nominated by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to be Iran's sports minister, but he never took up the job.^[3] He is currently number two of the Iranian sport organization.^{[citation needed]}

References

External links

• Hamid Sajjadi at World Athletics
• Hamid Sajjadi at Olympedia
• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sayed Hamid Sajjadi". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
• Biography (in Persian)