Nasim Hassanpour

Nasim Hassanpour
Personal information
Full name Nasim Hassanpour
Nationality  Iran
Born (1984-08-25) 25 August 1984
Tabriz, Iran
Height 1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 53 kg (117 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
Event(s) 10 m air pistol (AP40)
25 m pistol (SP)
Club Azadi[1]
Coached by Javad Kuhpayezadeh[1]

Nasim Hassanpour (Persian: نسیم حسن پور‎‎; born August 25, 1984 in Tabriz, East Azerbaijan) is an Iranian sport shooter.[2] She has been selected to compete for Iran at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and has won a bronze under junior division in air pistol shooting at the Asian Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on that same year.[1] Hassanpour also trains under her personal coach Javad Kuhpayezadeh for the national team, while shooting at Azadi Stadium's pistol range in Tehran.[1][3]

Hassanpour qualified as the only female shooter for the Iranian squad in the 10 m air pistol at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens.[3] She had been granted an Olympic invitation for her country by ISSF, having registered a minimum qualifying score of 375 from her third-place finish at the Asian Championships few months earlier.[1][4][5] Hassanpour fired a steady 376 out of a possible 400 to force in a two-way tie with Australia's two-time Olympian Linda Ryan for twenty-eighth place in the qualifying round, failing to advance to the final.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 "ISSF Profile – Nasim Hassanpour". ISSF. Retrieved 26 August 2015.
  2. ↑ "Nasim Hassanpour". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 25 August 2015.
  3. 1 2 Eeles, Miranda (16 August 2004). "Iran's sportswomen adapt to religious custom". BBC News. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  4. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  5. ↑ Moore, Kathleen (6 August 2004). "Olympics 2004: Muslim Women Athletes Move Ahead, But Don't Leave Faith Behind". Radio Free Europe. Retrieved 23 August 2015.
  6. ↑ "Shooting: Women's 10m Air Pistol Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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