Iran’s Adel Mojallali Moghadam off to Rio Olympics rowing competitions
Iran’s Adel Mojallali Moghaddam will be taking part in the rowing competitions of the forthcoming 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, after receiving a belated berth for the high-status sports event.
The 23-year-old sportsman was handed a Rio Olympics position after Russian athlete Sergey Fedorovtsev and Alexander Kornilov from Kazakhstan failed their drug tests.
President of the Rowing Federation of the Islamic Republic of Iran Gholamreza Amini said Mojallali Moghaddam had just missed out on Olympic qualification, but is now training hard for the contests.
On April 24, female Iranian rower Mahsa Javer also demonstrated praiseworthy athletic skills and strength at the 2016 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta (FAOQR) in the central South Korean city of Chungju, and booked her spot in the Rio Olympic Games.
She clocked eight minutes and 5.08 seconds in the march to the final of the tournament and occupied the second spot.
The rowing contests at the 2016 Summer Olympics will open on August 6 and run through August 13 at Lagoa Rodrigo de Freitas in Copacabana. A total of 550 athletes, 331 men and 219 women, will be in action at fourteen medal events.
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