Yousef Karami | |
Nationality: | Iranian |
Birth Date: | 22 March 1983 |
Birth Place: | Meyaneh, Iran |
Country: | Iran |
Sport: | Taekwondo |
Yousef Karami (Persian: یوسف کرمی; born March 22, 1983, in Meyaneh, Iran) is an Iranian former taekwondo athlete who competed in the Men's 80 kg at the 2004 Summer Olympics and won the bronze medal. He is also the 2003 world champion (in 78–84 kg). Karami also won gold in the 2006 Asian Games in 84 kg and in the 2010 Asian Games in 87 kg.
Yousef Karami was titled as the most talented sportsman in Taekwondo by the Korea head coach due to his brilliant performance in the 2003 world championship, where he astonished everyone. Karami won the title while he was only 20.
He was appointed as the Taekwondo head coach of Pakistan in the summer of 2022.[1]