(1987-09-17) 17 September 1987 (age 36) Kelachay, Gilan, Iran
Height
2.47 m (8 ft 1 in)[1][2]
Weight
140
Spike
201
Block
195
Volleyball information
Position
Outside hitter
Number
2[3]
Career
Years
Teams
2012–
Baran Kerman V.C.
National team
2013–
Iran sitting volleyball team
Medal record
Paralympic Games
2016 Rio de Janeiro
Sitting volleyball
2020 Tokyo
Sitting volleyball
World Para Volleyball Championship
2018 Arnhem
Sitting volleyball
2022 Sarajevo
Sitting volleyball
Asian Para Games
2014 Incheon
Sitting volleyball
2018 Jakarta
Sitting volleyball
2018 Hangzhou
Sitting volleyball
Sitting Volleyball World Cup
2023 Egypt
Sitting volleyball
Morteza Mehrzadselakjani (born 17 September 1987) is an Iranian volleyball player who plays in the national sitting volleyball team of and Baran Kerman (Mes Shahr Babak). With a height of 247 cm, he is known as the tallest living man in Iran and Middle East and the second tallest living man in the world. He was able to win two gold medals at the 2016 Summer Paralympics and 2020 Summer Paralympics , two times champion title of World Para Volleyball Championship three times gold medalist of Asian Games with Iran men's national sitting volleyball team and also he won the Golden Ball for the best player in the world in 2019,2021 and 2022.
He is part of the Iran men's national sitting volleyball team. He has acromegaly,[4] and has won the Gold medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, 2018 Asian Para Games in Jakarta, 2018 Sitting Volleyball World Championship and 2020 Summer Paralympics In Tokyo and 2022 Sitting Volleyball World Championship in Sarajevo with Iran men's national sitting volleyball team.[5] At club level he played for Samen Al Hojjaj Sabzevar in 2015.
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^"'Still growing': World's tallest athlete blows minds at Paralympics". 2 September 2021. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
^"مرتضی، از دیدار با علی کریمی تا طلای المپیک" (in Persian). Retrieved 13 September 2016.
^Davies, Gareth A. (13 September 2016). "Paralympics' tallest ever competitor: 'My life has changed playing sitting volleyball'". The Telegraph. Retrieved 4 May 2017.
^"Towering over opponents, Iranian giant Mehrzad begins journey to summit of sitting volleyball". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 18 September 2016. Retrieved 13 September 2016.
"Paralympics 2021: Meet MortezaMehrzad, the world's second-tallest man chasing gold for Iran". "Sitting Volleyball MEHRZADSELAKJANI Morteza - Tokyo 2020 Paralympics"...
Guinness World Records. 12 October 2011. Retrieved 29 April 2012. "MortezaMehrzad - 8 feet 1 inch (246cm)". TheTallestMan. Archived from the original...
second–tallest living person behind Sultan Kösen of Turkey, and tied with MortezaMehrzad of Iran, in the world according to the Guinness World Records. List...
Society and Power. Routledge. ISBN 9781136333644. Retrieved 8 June 2016. Mehrzad Boroujerdi; Kourosh Rahimkhani (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran. A Political...
Khomeini's underground movement. The group also included Mohammad Beheshti and Morteza Motahhari. In 1970 Khomeini asked Hassan Shirazi who had been released...
men's national sitting volleyball team Mehrzad Mehravan MortezaMehrzad Meisam Ali Pour Davoud Alipourian Morteza Ramezani Gerakoei Seyed Mohammed Hossein...
on January 12, 2016, in the Persian Gulf.[citation needed] Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook...
Rouhani and Muhammad Husayn Tabatabai had issued rulings against Shariati. Morteza Motahari who defended Shariati against Wahabbism and anti-Shia accusations...
and lower-middle class students. The leading candidate in the list was Morteza Aladpoush who received only 49,979 votes in Tehran constituency. They rejected...
his concentration and took a long time to return to his net resulting in Mehrzad Madanchi curling one in for Persepolis from the corner of the pitch and...
Spring. Oxford University Press. p. 832. ISBN 9780190627645. Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018). Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook...
Left in Iran, Bloomsbury Academic, ISBN 978-1-86064-381-1 Boroujerdi, Mehrzad; Rahimkhani, Kourosh (2018), Postrevolutionary Iran: A Political Handbook...
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