Hassan Taftian (; born 4 May 1993 in Torbat-e Heydarieh) is an Iranian sprinter. He is an olympic sprinter than represented Iran at Rio2016 and Tokyo2020. He represented his country at four outdoor and three indoor World Championships.

Taftian won the gold medal in 100 metres at the 2012 Asian Junior Athletics Championships in Colombo, Sri Lanka. On 8 July 2017 Taftian became the first Iranian to ever win the gold medal in 100 metres in an Asian Athletics Championships after finishing with a time of 10.25 seconds at the 2017 Asian Athletics Championships in Bhubaneswar, India.

Hassan Taftian

International competitions

1Did not start in the final

Personal bests

Outdoor

100 metres – 10.029 (+1.2 m/s, Paris 2018) 200 metres – 20.71 (Tehran 2017) Indoor 60 metres – 6.51A (Tehran 2018)

Hassan Taftian

See also

List of Iranian records in athletics

References

External links

1993 births

Living people

Iranian male sprinters

Olympic male sprinters

Olympic athletes for Iran

Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Athletes (track and field) at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Asian Games competitors for Iran

Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games

Athletes (track and field) at the 2018 Asian Games

World Athletics Championships athletes for Iran

Asian Athletics Championships winners

Asian Indoor Athletics Championships winners

21st-century Iranian people

Islamic Solidarity Games competitors for Iran

People from Razavi Khorasan Province

Hassan Taftian