Iran's Strongest Man

(Redirected from Mardan Ahanin)

Iran's Strongest Man (Persian: قوی‌ترین مرد ایران), also called Mardān-e Āhanin; Persian: مردان آهنین), is the only televised annual strongman event in Iran, airs on Channel 3. Mohammadreza Fattah Hosseini, Reza Javdani, and Mohammad-Amin Nabiollahi have been the host of program so far. Faramarz Khodnegah is the official referee, assisted at times by Mehdi Fatemi (2005–2006), Mehrab Fatemi (2007–2009), and Ali Dadashi (2010).[1] After six years of absence, the 12th period of the event takes place on Nowruz 2018.[2]

Iran's Strongest Man
Tournament information
LocationIran
Established1998; 26 years ago (1998)
Number of
tournaments
13
FormatMulti-event competition
Host(s)
  • Mohammadreza Fattah Hosseini
  • Reza Javdani
  • Javad Molania
  • Mohammad-Amin Nabiollahi
  • Aliram Nouraee
BroadcastIRIB TV3
Current champion
Reza Gheitasi
Most recent tournament
2024 Iran's Strongest Man

Final results

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Year Place Winner Runner-up Third Fourth Fifth Sixth Seventh Eighth
1998 Tehran Mehrab Fatemi Hamid Soltan Mehdi Mirdavoudi Mehdi Fatemi Farhad Panahi Akbar Ghamgin
2001 Boroujerd Mehrab Fatemi Mojtaba Maleki Majid Talkhabi Mehdi Fatemi Ali Dadashi Reza Golmohammadi Hossein Fatemi Hossein Bejani
2004 Tehran Reza Gharaei Mojtaba Maleki Rouhollah Dadashi Amir Gharaei Mehdi Mirdavoudi Majid Dejbarar Mehdi Bagheri Mehdi Pashaei
2005 Kish Mehrab Fatemi Mojtaba Maleki Hossein Fatemi Majid Talkhabi Karim Taleshi Mehdi Bagheri Ali Esmaeili M. Mohammadi
2006 Bandar Abbas Mehrab Fatemi Ali Esmaeili Hossein Fatemi Aidin Khataei Hamid Gharaei M. Mohammadi
2007 Bam Reza Gharaei Farzad Mousakhani Ali Esmaeili Rouhollah Dadashi Hamid Gharaei M. Mohammadi
2008 Chabahar Reza Gharaei Hassan Ebadi Rouhollah Dadashi Ali Esmaeili M. Mohammadi Hamid Gharaei Amir Gharaei Javad Maafi
2009 Bam Rouhollah Dadashi Moslem Darabi Ali Esmaeili M. Mohammadi Mehrdad Bajelan Hamed Amiri Hamid Gharaei Mehdi Norouzi
2010 Tehran Rouhollah Dadashi Moslem Darabi Mehrdad Bajelan M. Mohammadi Mohsen Akhoundi Alireza Gharaei Mehrab Fatemi Ali Esmaeili
2011 Gheshm Moslem Darabi Ali Esmaeili Kamal Sharifi Karim Taleshi Nemat Jalali Mohsen Akhoundi Saeed B. Kazemi
2012 Kish Moslem Darabi Nemat Jalali Hamed Haghzareh Mohsen Masnabadi Mehrdad Bajelan Bahram Akbari Farshid Hemmati
2018 Tehran Mohammad Ezzatpour Peiman Maheripour Mohsen Masnabadi Mohammadreza Tazeroo Ali Nokani Sirvan Soleymani Hassan H. Aghaei Faramarz Rahmani
2024 Kish Reza Gheitasi AliAkbar Jafari Ali Fazeli Mohammadreza Tazeroo Amir Sohrabi Malek Jafari Milad AbbasAbadi Mohsen Masnabadi

Fair-play award winner

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Year Place Fair-play Winner
1998 Tehran Kazem Sad
2001 Boroujerd Mansour Rostamzadeh
2004 Tehran Ahmed Afshar
2005 Kish Rahim Asgari and Mehdi Bagheri
2006 Bandar Abbas Ali Dadashi and Siavash Barfan
2007 Bam Mehdi Bagheri
2008 Chabahar Kamal Sharifi
2009 Bam Hasan Aliyar and Siavash Barfan
2010 Tehran Ghiyath Ahmadi and Hossein Rasouli
2011 Qeshm Amirhossein Yavari
2012 Kish Nemat Jalali
2018 Tehran N/A
2024 Kish Reza Gheitasi / Ahmad Reza Masnabadi

Records

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  • Most championship:
Mehrab Fatemi (4 times)
Reza Gharaei (3 times)
  • Most second place:
Mojtaba Maleki (3 times)
Ali Esmaili and Moslem Darabi (2 times)
  • Most third place:
Rouhollah Dadashi, Ali Esmaili and Hossein Fatemi (2 times)
  • Most appearances in the finals:
Ali Esmaili (7 times)
Mohammad Mohammadi (6 times)
Mehrab Fatemi and Rouhollah Dadashi (5 times)
  • Most consecutive championships:
Mehrab Fatemi, Reza Gharaei, Rouhollah Dadashi and Moslem Darabi (2 times)

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Mardan Ahanin (Iran's Strongest Man)
  2. ^ "Mardan Ahanin returning in 2018". Archived from the original on 2018-12-31. Retrieved 2018-03-18.