Mohsen Shadi

Mohsen Shadi Naghdeh ( born June 4, 1988 in Naghadeh ) is an Iranian rower in the discipline of the one and two -time Olympian.

The 191 cm and 72 kg rowers won in 2008 at the U23 World Championships, which took place in Brandenburg, the very first medal of Iran in this sport on the international stage. He was behind Graham Oberlin - Brown ( NZL) second in the lightweight single sculls. and thus secured the silver medal.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, he was fifth in the seventh race of the first round and thus qualified for the semi-final race for places 25-36, which he won on the second nine seconds ahead. In this race ( 7:20,34 min) he improved from the first race ( 7:48,24 min) by nearly 28 seconds. On 14 August 2008, he joined the E- finals - in this final run of the places will be determined 25-30 - and finished second: 25th place in the final table.

In 2009 he was U23 world champion in the lightweight single sculls, finishing at the World Championships in Poznan twelfth grade in this class of boat. In 2010 he was U23 world champion in Brest again. In his second at the Olympics in London in 2012, he started again in the ( heavyweight ) - one and was ranked 22