Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi (Persian: مهدی عطار اشرفی‎; 23 December 1948 – 9 January 2021) was an Iranian middleweight weightlifter. He won a bronze medal at the 1974 Asian Games and a silver at the 1979 Asian Championships and competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics. References 1948 births 2021 deaths Iranian male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Iran Weightlifters at the 1976 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Iran Asian Games bronze medalists for Iran Weightlifters at the 1974 Asian Games Asian Games medalists in weightlifting 20th-century Iranian people