Hassan Taftian, Iranian sprinter

[Ab-Gosht]

damesh garm, 2 years left to olympics, if he could medal it would be one of our greatest ever sport accomplishments

lol yes. u mean it would be one of mankinds greatest ever sport accomplishments

[irani8perspolis]

damesh garm, 2 years left to olympics, if he could medal it would be one of our greatest ever sport accomplishments

[Ata]

3 Asians in top 5 in the world.

Nice to see this fake turk and Arab nations don’t succeed with their naturalized athletes

[Irannn]

Taftian finished 5th in the world which is a great result. with 6.53, only 0.02 behind his own record. he had some problems with UK visa and made it to the comptition only last night. I consider this a great result. top 3 was out of reach but he could finish 4th

[Irannn]

Taftian advances to the final , this is the first ever final for Iran in a track event (Discus throw is a field event)

[Ata]

Taftian got 6,74 in first round and came second in his heat and advanced.

[Ata]

Taftian will soon compete in Men's 60 metres
at the 2018 IAAF World Indoor Championships

[PSGman#19]

You expected him to not race in his own country ? his only chance to compete in an international competition in front of his parents/family etc.

that was his opening competition for the season . even Mutaz Barshim . the best male athlete of the year of 2017 participated in this event in Tehran.

No, I expect him to perform more in international tournaments. Since last Olympics, we just hear about him for his asian games performance (where the competition is not high)

[Irannn]

not just a PB. but a new national record and only 0.01 second slower than the Asian record.
6.51 is probably enough for a world medal if he can repeat that in the world indoor championship next month.

I have to correct this, he is no longer 0.01 away from the Asian Record because a Chinese guy just broke it !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pd_a2xil80U

Taftian's record is still 5th best result of the year.

[Irannn]

He only run on asian games?? I am waiting him to perform in international competitions

You expected him to not race in his own country ? his only chance to compete in an international competition in front of his parents/family etc.

that was his opening competition for the season . even Mutaz Barshim . the best male athlete of the year of 2017 participated in this event in Tehran.

[Irannn]

Taftian won the 60m at the 2018 Asian Indoor Championships, he ran a time of 6.51s (a PB for him I believe).

not just a PB. but a new national record and only 0.01 second slower than the Asian record.
6.51 is probably enough for a world medal if he can repeat that in the world indoor championship next month.

[PSGman#19]

He only run on asian games?? I am waiting him to perform in international competitions

[irani8perspolis]

Taftian won the 60m at the 2018 Asian Indoor Championships, he ran a time of 6.51s (a PB for him I believe).

[Irannn]

Great news: Taftian won the 60m at the 2017 Asian Indoor Games in Ashgabat with a time of 6.55s, which is his personal best at this distance.

Our other sprinter Reza Ghasemi also finished third with a time of 6.64.

http://ashgabat2017.com/results

Actually that's not just his PB, but also a new National Record. this is his best race this summer, good for him, he finally shows a bit progress this year

[GoIran]

It would be nice if he breaks the 10-second barrier in the 100m. There are only six non-black sprinters to do so in the history of the 100m.


Christophe Lemaitre (France)
Patrick Johnson (Australia, half Aboriginal)
Adam Gemili (UK, half Iranian & half Moroccan)
Ramil Guliyev (Turkey, naturalized from Azerbaijan)
Yoshihide Kiryu (Japan)
Su Bingtian (China)