Iranian karateka Saeid Hassanipour, first person to win a gold medal in the Asian Games Tournament -75 kg among Iranian karate players.Saeid start karate with his brother in the city of Rasht (Iran) he well developp a high performance skills during his career, starting by Iranian national team athlet,then become Iranian national team coach and now he is current national team coach of Hongkong.
Saeid Hassanipour has won several World and Asian Karate Championships for youth, hopes and adults. He was named the only Gilanian gold man in Incheon[2] by winning the gold medal in 2014 Asian Games.
Hassanipour won the gold medal at the Asian championship in Dubai , UAE at the 2013 Asian Karate Championships and won silver at the Islamic Countries Championships in Indonesia 2013. The champion added two more silver medals to the Qatar International Karate Championships and the Turkish[2] World League Championships to the Iranian karate history in 2013. He won a silver medal in the World League Championships in France2010,[4] and won the gold medal in the Asian Hope Championship in Malaysia, 2008. Saeid Hassanipour’s other honors include winning a silver medal in the World Hope Championship in Turkey 2007, a bronze medal in the U21 Karate Asia Championships in Singapore 2006, and a gold medal in the World Youth Championship in Cyprus 2005.
Saeid Hassanipour became a member of the National Olympic Committee‘s Athletes Commission in 2017.He is the representative of Iran at the Asian Olympic Committee’s Athletes Commission and in 2017 he became Vice President of the National Olympic Committee’s Athletes Commission. He was also appointed ambassador of health by Hope Health Club in 2018.
Saeid Hassanipour was appointed as coach of the national karate team in 2016. He has coached the Youth Karate Team in the World Championships in 2016, the Hope international Team in the Asian Championships in 2016, as well as coaching Guilan’s selected Karate team in the Asian champion league. After that he has been responsible for coaching the Adult National Team in the Asian Championship in Kazakhstan 2018, coaching the Adult National Team in the French, Turkish and Emirates World Leagues, coaching the Adult National Team at the Spanish World Championships, coached Iran’s Hope National Team at the Spanish and Austrian World Championships at the World Leagues. This Iranian karate player also coached the Adult National Team in the Turkish World League, the Russian World Championship and the Asian Championship in Uzbekistan 2019. He is currently in charge of coaching the National Adult Team to participate in the TokyoOlympics 2020.
Actual coach of Hong Kong team , Saeid is looking for new challenge and developp his skills as International coach.
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