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Saei in Blue in his match with Sik Sin Joon of South Korea

Steve Lope of USA winning Gold, Sik Sin Joon of South Korea winning Silver and Hadi Saei of Iran winning the bronze medal

Hadi Saei won the first bronze medal for Iran in the Olympic Taekwondo competitions in Sydney on Thursday.

After losing to his South Korean opponent in a match that left Saei complaining to the referees, he passed his Australian and Austrian opponents to win the medal.

Saei, who competed with 13 opponents in the first ever official Olympic Taekwondo competitions, said that had an unbiased referee judged his match against his South Korean opponent he would have most certainly won and probably even achieved the gold medal.

Saei's bronze medal follows our two gold medals in weightlifting by Hossein Tavakoli and Hossein Rezazadeh which brings the Iranian sports convoy ranking to 28th.