[Merged]Swimming World Championshisp, Iranian breaks World Record

[Arashi_Washi]

I was JUST Watching the Swimming world Championships held here in Melbourne

and the race for 50m backstroke for Women jus finished with an American winning it...Her name was Leila Vaziri which just yelled out that she might be persian

Well 100% sure she has a persian background...Mashallah to her
Only 20 years old and is from Indapolis University

[Arashi_Washi]

heres more info on this young iranian.!! Her fathers name is Mansour so i do belive we can put a quaranteee that this girl has a persian background and is making every persian proud in the Swimming World Champs..

http://iuhoosiers.cstv.com/sports/w-...i_leila00.html

[shayan20]

nice to know

[Land of Samba]

she is a very talented iranian.......damesh garm......US has one of the best swimming teams in the world...

[Milad-69]

Whats the point..she thinks of herself as American??!

[PersianMadrid7]

She's German from her mothers side and Iranian from her fathers side, born in USA.

http://www.usaswimming.org/USASWeb/V...08&ItemId=2555


I had to do it. lol

[benreyhani15]

Whats the point..she thinks of herself as American??!

true,but maybe she doesnt see herself as american, maybe that was the only choice for her.im not sure if there is a iranian women swimming team.there are so many iranian talents that are known to be non iranian

[Samaniii]

Whats the point..she thinks of herself as American??!

So what??? If she represent Iran then she has to wear CHADOR when she is swimming...
Baba hame irania nemitoonan baraye Iran bazi konan.. some of them bcause of political reasons and some bcause of religion (Aab momkene nadjes beshe)

Good luck Leila!!!

[babak_australia]

She just got another gold and another World record.What a champ.
I dont care who she represents. Well done to her.

[MrAmir]

Female Iranian Swimmer

Leila Vaziri equalled her own world record as she won the women's 50m backstroke final in 28.16 seconds.

This is from today's swimming world championships.
She represent America.

Do you think she could be iranian?
thought y'all would be interested....

[Behrooz]

Yes she is according to Daryoush Zahab. He showed a piece of the action the other night in his daily sports channel(Andisheh TV).

Very interesting.

[Mr.Click]

Iranian/American girl sets swimming world record

The Associated Press
Published: March 28, 2007

Leila Vaziri sets world record



Vaziri swam a meet record of 28.25 seconds in the morning preliminaries, then went even faster in the semifinals, leading all the way.


Vaziri's time of 28.16 seconds erased the mark of 28.19 set by Janine Pietsch in May 2005 at Berlin. The German swam in the lane next to Vaziri in their semifinal, and was the fifth-fastest qualifier for Thursday night's final.


"I definitely had in my mind to go that time," said Vaziri, a world championships rookie. "You just want to break the world record so bad."

ino migan shir dokhtare Irani

Currently Iran does NOT deserve her !

[EKBATAN]

6 Your name is interesting. You are Iranian, correct?

Leila: My mom has German heritage, and my father is Iranian, so I’m half and half. It’s definitely (laughs) an interesting mix. My father was born in Iran, so he grew up there. I also have an older brother. I feel very close to my Iranian identity, like I’m a second generation Iranian-American. I can’t claim a connection to actual immigrants, but my father is an immigrant. So he raised me with Iranian characteristics such as modesty and used conservative values with me. My father is Muslim, and though I wasn’t raised Muslim, being bi-cultural is a big, important part of my identity.

[Masoud_A]

Damesh garm, The news was very blessing I didnt close the extra threads and merged them all to this one

[PersianMadrid7]

I'm telling you it's her mothers Ghormeh Sabzi