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Hamid Reza Gholipour

Iranian wushu athlete and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ5948811 ↗
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Hamid Reza Gholipour (born 26 June 1988) is an Iranian wushu athlete. He is a four-time Wushu World Champion. Gholipour received a four-year ban after testing positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone, starting in October 2019, and disqualified from the 15th World Wushu Championships in Shanghai, and the results at the competition forfeited.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hamid Reza Gholipour” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.