(Photo : (Photo by Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images)) CHIBA, JAPAN – SEPTEMBER 04: Morteza Mehrzad # 2 of Team Islamic Republic of Iran celebrates its gold medal win over Team Russian Paralympic Committee through the males’s sitting volleyball gold match on day 11 of the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games at Makuhari Messe Hall on September 04, 2021 in Chiba, Japan.
Iranian sitting volleyball star Morteza Mehrzadselakjani is making headlines on the 2024 Paris Paralympics as he goes for his third gold medal. The 36-year-old athlete, also referred to as Mehrzad, is the tallest Paralympian in historical past, standing at a powerful 2 meters, 46 centimeters (8 toes, 1 inch) tall.
Throughout his profession, Mehrzadselakjani has been a key member of the Iranian sitting volleyball males’s workforce that has gained two consecutive gold medals in Rio and Tokyo. While acromegaly is often thought-about a detrimental situation, for the athlete it has change into a bonus in volleyball. Ordinarily recognized at an early stage, Mehrzadselakjani has adversarial results of the situation which restrict him in some regards as a blessing.
A Strange Path Towards Success
At first, Mehrzadselakjani was taking part in for the sitting volleyball nationwide workforce for a mere six months when the Rio Games began. He was indicated on a TV Show, the remainder is as individuals say historical past. He is at present thought to be the most effective gamers of the sport and has additionally been awarded the ‘Best Player’ 3 times (2019, 2021, and 2022).
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Inspite of the accolades he has acquired, Mehrzadselenkajani’s leaves no stones unturned in remaining modest. “I appreciate being called the best in the game, but I’m not,” he mentioned, in keeping with CNN. “Each of our guys is the best … and we make the best team in the world.”
As the 2024 Paris Paralympics are underway, there will probably be not one however two gold medals for which each eye will deal with Mehrzadselakjani and the Iranian males’s sitting volleyball aspect as they aim a 3rd gold in a roll.
Early Life and Diagnosis
Mehrzad was born on September, 17, 1987, in Kelachay, Iran. He received his first prognosis of acromegaly – a uncommon illness which being among the many problems results in irregular manufacturing of progress hormone and extreme top.
Mehrzadselakjani’s sporting expertise drew the curiosity of the nationwide head coach of Iran, Hadi Rezaei in 2011. He was inspired for sitting volleyball and he was capable of develop quick and even performed for the nationwide workforce by 2016. It was from then that he began dominating the game and assisted the Iranian workforce to win quite a few crowns shipped whereas additionally baggaging particular person awards inclusive of three ‘Best Player’ awards.
Mehrzadselakjani’s top and situation have posed issues equivalent to a bicycle accident which left him with a critical pelvis fracture when he was 15 years of age. The harm led to a situation the place his proper leg stopped rising, leaving it 15 centimeters shorter than the left one. However, regardless of all their challenges, there are nonetheless lots of people, together with the current author, whom Mehrzadselakjani evokes on and off the courtroom.
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