Darius Jokarzadeh
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FullnameDarius Asadullah Jokarzadeh
Born25 June 1993
Cardiff, Wales
Weight127.17 kg (280.4 lb)
Country
Great Britain
Wales
Great Britain
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| Full name | Darius Asadullah Jokarzadeh | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1993 Cardiff, Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 127.17 kg (280.4 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Great Britain Wales | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Weightlifting | ||||||||||||||
| Weight class | +105 kg | ||||||||||||||
| Team | National team | ||||||||||||||
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Darius Jokarzadeh (born 25 June 1993) is a Welsh male weightlifter, competing in the +105 kg category.
Jokarzadeh was born in Cardiff to an Iranian father. He attended Ysgol Gyfun Gymraeg Glantaf, a secondary school that teaches through the medium of Welsh. He was a sport rower before taking up weightlifting.[1]
As a junior he set an overall British records in Olympic weightlifting in the clean & jerk, lifting 215 kg at the World Junior Championships in Lima, Peru on 10 May 2013. He represented Wales at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the +105 kg event.[2]
