Hossein Rasouli


Hossein Rasouli is an Iranian discus thrower. He became the champion of Asian Junior Athletics Championships in 2018. Rasouli became Iran 2022 Athletic Championships's runner-up after Ehsan Haddadi in 2022.

Allegations of sexual assault

In June 2025, Hossein Rasouli and Amir Moradi, the coach of the Iranian national athletics team, along with a national athlete named Masoud Kamran, were arrested during the Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea, on charges of sexually assaulting a 20-year-old Korean woman. According to reports, the three men met the woman at a bar, took her to a hotel near the athletes' village, and allegedly assaulted her. South Korean police arrested them at the scene following the complaint. The investigation is ongoing.