Shakhbakhsh and Mousavi are aiming for Iran’s first Olympic boxing medal
The Iranian boxing team is in the final stage of their preparations to the upcoming Tokyo Olympic Games and the country is aiming for its first ever medal in Japan. Daniyal Shakhbakhsh has got impressive technical skills while their experienced Seyed Shahin Mousavi is a real fighter.
Iran never achieved any medals in the history of the Olympic Games yet, their boxers reached the quarter-finals several times but failed to get the last step. Their last quarter-finalist was Ehsan Rouzbahani in the London 2012 Olympic Games and the veteran is still active in the sport, he participated in the Dubai 2021 ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships.
Iran qualified two boxers for the Tokyo Olympic Games through the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event which took place in Amman, Jordan on March 2020. The Iranians returned to the national training camps in October 2020 and their National Federation arranged joint sparring events with the Syrian counterparts. Iran sent also a strong team to the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships to Dubai to keep chance for their best talents.
Daniyal Shakhbakhsh was quarter-finalist at the Bangkok ASBC Asian Youth Boxing Championships and also at the Budapest AIBA Youth World Boxing Championships in 2018. He joined to the elite national team in 2019 and impressed with his amazing technical skills at the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event. Following his quota place for Tokyo, he claimed silver medal at the Dubai 2021 ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships. The Iranian featherweight (57kg) boxer is 21-year-old and his technical knowledge could be his success in Tokyo. Seyed Shahin Mousavi switched from other martial arts to boxing and won two bronze medals for Iran in the 2019 Bangkok and 2021 Dubai editions of the ASBC Asian Elite Boxing Championships. He is member of the national team at the middleweight (75kg) since 2017 and competed several international championships and tournaments. Mousavi was quarter-finalist at the 2019 AIBA World Boxing Championships and won two important Box-off bouts in Amman which delivered for him a spot for the Tokyo Olympic Games.
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