From Fruit Vendor to Asian Podium: The Difficult Story of Ali Amirian, Iran's Silver-Medal Runner

Ali Amirian, silver medalist in the 800m at the Nagoya Asian Games, spoke about years of effort, financial hardship, injury, and the difficult road to success. He ran from village to town to attend training sessions and even turned to selling fruit to cover living costs, yet his greater goal has not yet been achieved.

Iran's silver runner at the Asian Games in Nagoya, told about the days when he used to run from the village to the city to get to training and turned to fruit selling to meet his living expenses. A difficult path that finally brought him to the Asian platform.

According to Ambassador Arjan's report, Ali Amirian, silver medalist in the 800 meters of Nagoya Asian Games, said about the years of hardship and effort to reach the medal; The path that started with running between the village and the city to attend the trainings and despite the injuries, financial problems and the constant change of trainers, finally reached the silver medal in Asia.

Amirian stated: "All I tried to do was to win a gold medal, but the situation happened in such a way that I had a coach for a while and I was without a coach for a while." I worked with a foreign coach at times and was injured for a while. I suffered a lot since childhood. I used to run from the village to the city to get to practice and walk back. After that, I was facing problems such as renting a house and work, and I even sold fruits.

He continued: "Before attending the camps, I had set the record of two minutes." After I worked with Sajjad Moradi, I was able to get the Columbia World Championship entry record. Then I came to camps with Amir Moradi and now my record has improved a lot.

The Asian Games silver medalist said: "At first, it was difficult for me to bear the difficult conditions of the camp." People only see the podium and medals, but behind these successes is a team effort. My coach, Amir Moradi, even when he was not in Iran, he sent me the training program and I did the training.

Amirian also said about the detention of Iranian coaches in South Korea: My coach and especially Mr. Zamanpour were unjustly imprisoned in South Korea, but now they have been released and we are going to continue our work again. Our main goal is definitely the Olympics.

In the end, he asked for more attention to athletics and said: I hope this discipline will be seen more. No athlete from track and field has a scholarship to participate in the Olympics. I hope this situation will change and more attention will be paid to this field.