Elnaz Rekabi
Iranian sport climber
Elnaz Rekabi (Persian: الناز رکابی Persian pronunciation: [elˈnɒːz ɾekɒːˈbiː]; born 20 August 1989) is an Iranian competition climber. She participated at the 2021 IFSC Climbing World Championships, being awarded the bronze medal in the women's combined event. Rekabi has also finished on the podium three times at the IFSC Climbing Asian Championships, with one silver and two bronze medals.
She made global headlines in 2022 when she violated Iran's mandatory hijab rule while participating in the 2022 IFSC Climbing Asian Championships in Seoul, South Korea. Occurring during the Mahsa Amini protests, it was widely interpreted as an intentional violation to signal support for the protests.
Hijab controversy
In 2022, she participated in the 2022 IFSC Climbing Asian Championships in Seoul, South Korea, where she finished fourth. Notably, she appeared without Iran's mandatory hijab. The event occurred during the ongoing Mahsa Amini protests in Iran, a large element of which is resistance to and intentional violation of the obligatory hijab. On 18 October, two days after the competition, Rekabi was reported missing. The same day, a post was made on her Instagram account which claimed that she would explain everything at a news conference and that she was traveling back to Iran alongside her fellow team members.
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