Hassan Taftian, Iranian sprinter

[PSGman#19]

He is now training in France, coached by Guy Ontanion (ex coach of Jimmy Vicaut).
In the video in the first link, we can see it is aiming to develop his muscles and gain more power. He wants to run under 10 s and aim a medal in the next Olympics or World championships. Recently, He didn't run well in Baku.
https://sport.sfr.fr/athletisme/meet...n-a-paris.html
https://twitter.com/hassantaftian/st...73011365965824

[PSGman#19]

Btw, he is the fastest man of Iran (Record of 10s04 last year in Madrid : 100m).

He is training in the INSEP structure (home of most French athletes). I trained several times in one of the place he is training (see the video).

In France the tenniswomen, Aghavane Rezaei help him as a translator.

His current french coach finds his previous trainings and way of running "unclassic"

[irani8perspolis]

London 2017 World Championships: Taftian finished 5th in his heat with a time of 10.34s in the 100m and didn't qualify for the semi-finals. Disappointing.

http://90tv.ir/video/409400/دوومیدان...�ین-بولت

[DR Strangemoosh]

He was in Hossein Balt's heat. These starting blocks are a bit odd though, and Taftian struggled in the start.

Still, it's good to have an iranian up there!

[IRAN300]

Btw, he is the fastest man of Iran (Record of 10s04 last year in Madrid : 100m).

He is training in the INSEP structure (home of most French athletes). I trained several times in one of the place he is training (see the video).

In France the tenniswomen, Aghavane Rezaei help him as a translator.

His current french coach finds his previous trainings and way of running "unclassic"

Interesting, so u were part of INSEP program ? (if I may ask u)

[Abtin]

Do we have any other athletes?
Oh, we had Ehsan Haddadi, but he didn't make it [emoji17]

[PSGman#19]

Interesting, so u were part of INSEP program ? (if I may ask u)

No I was just training in that place with some friends preparing amateur marathon. The place I was public but with a high slope

[DRasooli]

He recently won the Gold at the Asian Championships this June in India, upsetting the 'Qatari' Femi Ogunode
https://www.iaaf.org/news/report/taf...ian-100m-title

[IRAN300]

Do we have any other athletes?
Oh, we had Ehsan Haddadi, but he didn't make it [emoji17]

Haddadi had a surgery just few months ago, this result was therefore expected.
I want to see what he will do next year, if he is finally free from injuries.

[irani8perspolis]

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

[Adesor Vafaseya]

rumours say that both Taftian and Ghassemi are indeed Perspolissi fans and therefore are sarvars of SS!

dameshoon volcano!

[DR Strangemoosh]

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

It is possible that we will have two iranian-blooded 100m sprinters in the Olympic semi-final/finals!

If anyone saw Adam Gemili's relay leg this world champs, you know how fast that guy is. Okay he is half-iranian, but he is a really nice guy and proud of both sides of his heritage.

[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)

[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

[irani8perspolis]

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