Hadadi wins Asian Games discus gold medal

Iranian athletic Ehsan Hadadi won the gold medal in discus at the Asian Games 2006 in Qatar on Sunday.

The 21-year-old threw a best of 63.79 meters to beat Qatari Rashid Shafi Al-Dosari.

Hadadi made history by becoming the first Iranian man to win a medal at a global athletics championships when he took gold at the 2004 World Junior Championships.