Taekwondo expert Amir Mohammad Hosseini was born on November 7th, 1998, in Iran but now resides in Hamburg.
A refugee athlete, he has been awarded a scholarship by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to compete in the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo.
As a refugee athlete, he competed at the World Taekwondo Championships in Manchester in 2019, as well as the European Championships in 2019.
And the European Taekwondo Championships in 2021. At the 2016 German Open, he placed second, earning himself a silver medal.
Amir Mohammad Hosseini Career
Hosseini started training in Taekwondo at age eight. After relocating from Iran to Germany, he began competing in European national and international events in 2013.
The 2020 Tokyo Olympics were postponed until 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in 2019 he was one of only fifty persons in the world to get a scholarship for them.
Tokyo 2020 Hopefuls Benefit from World Taekwondo Booyoung Dream Programme
A World Taekwondo project is helping 19 athletes with low resources realise their Olympic aspirations in time for Tokyo 2020.
The Booyoung Dream Programme is providing the greatest possible training for the taekwondo stars as they head into the Olympic Games.
Athletes from low-income backgrounds will have the opportunity to be evaluated before they compete on the continental level in qualification events thanks to this project.
There are three refugees in the group, all of whom are talented athletes: Kasra Mehdipournejad, Amir Mohammad Hosseini, and Seyed Ehsan Naghibzadeh.
Each of them has received a scholarship from the International Olympic Committee.
Naghibzadeh is competing for Switzerland, Mehdipournejad for Germany, and Hosseini for Iran.
Muju Taekwondowon, the World Taekwondo Central Training Centre, and the Taekwondo Promotion Foundation are hosting the event.
In the past, Ahmad Abughaush participated in the Booyoung Dream Programme.
The Olympic gold medalist was the first person from Jordan to win an Olympic medal.
As part of the 12-day event, the taekwondo group travelled to Seoul to meet with World Taekwondo Peace Corps Foundation secretary general Hyunsuk Shin at the organization’s headquarters.
Conclusion
The president of the World Taekwondo Federation, Chungwon Choue, has expressed his “sincerely hoped” that seven refugee fighters will qualify for the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.
On June 20th, in honour of World Refugees Day, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) granted refugee athlete scholarships to 37 athletes from a wide variety of sports.
They have been awarded training funding in the hopes that they can qualify for the Refugee Olympic Team in Tokyo.
At the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the team’s inaugural competition, ten competitors competed in the disciplines of athletics, judo, and swimming.
Wael Fawaz Al-Farraj, a Syrian, is one of the taekwondo hopefuls. He trained at the Taekwondo Humanitarian Foundation (THF) in Azraq Refugee Camp, Jordan, and earned the first black belt in the project.
