Navid Mohammadi

Navid Mohammadi (21 March 2001 - 6 June 2019, in Shiraz) was an Iranian karateka who won the gold medal in the +68 kg boys' karate event at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics. He also became the first Iranian to win a gold medal in karate at the Youth Olympics.

Early life Navid Mohammadi was born on March 21, 2001, in Town, Shiraz. He began his training in karate at the age of six under the guidance of his father, Mohammad Hadi Mohammad, and his uncle, Mohammad Reza Mohammad, a world gold medalist. From 2014 onwards, he participated in the training camps of Iran's national junior karate teams and, despite his young age, was also invited to the training camps of the senior national team.

Death On the early morning of Thursday, June 6, 2019, Mohammad was driving a hatchback car on the Kuhsar Expressway in Shiraz. Due to excessive speed on a dangerous curve after the Kuhsar tunnel, his vehicle veered off the road, overturned, and resulted in his death.

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