Facts:   - sport: athletics    - event: discus    - height: 1.92    - updated: 12 august 2012      - birth date: 20 january 1985    - weight: 110 kg lb on    - image size: 300px    - birth place: tehran   Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of ehsan haddadi .
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ehsan haddadi -lrb- , born 20 january 1985 in tehran -rrb- is an iranian discus thrower .he is 193 cm and 127 kg .the 2004 asian junior champion , he won a gold medal at the 2004 world junior championships in grosseto , becoming the first iranian to win a medal at any global athletics competition .in 2005 he won the asian championships in incheon with a throw of 65.25 metres .in december 2006 , he added another gold medal to his record , winning the title at the 2006 asian games in doha , qatar .in 2007 , he won the asian championships in amman and defended his title .his personal best throw is 69.32 metres , achieved on june 3 , 2008 in tallinn , estonia .this is the current asian record .because of his good performance over the whole season 2008 he was considered a medal contender entering the 2008 summer olympics but he ranked 17th with a 61.34 meters throw and failed to qualify for the final , haddadi blamed his poor results on his injuries .after more than a year 's absence due to shoulder surgery , in november 2009 , he won his third in a row continental title in guangzhou .after winning 2010 asian games in guangzhou and 2011 asian championship in kobe , haddadi made history by becoming the first iranian athlete to win a medal at iaaf world championships in athletics , he won bronze in 2011 world championships in athletics in daegu .haddadi competed and won a silver medal at the 2012 summer olympics with a 68.18 m throw .iranian athletes have participated in the olympic games since 1948 and before haddadi 's silver medal , have only attained medals in wrestling , weightlifting , and taekwondo .his achievement is a milestone in iran 's olympic history in that it ended iran 's 64 year-old medal drought in events other than the aforementioned .haddadi offered his silver medal to children with cancer , and travelled to azerbaijan to gather fund for the 2012 earthquakes ' victims .