Kaveh Mehrabi


Kaveh Mehrabi is an Iranian former badminton player.

Career

Mehrabi was born in Tehran, Iran, and on April 10, 2003 he moved to Copenhagen, Denmark to become the first Iranian professional badminton player and practice at the International Badminton Academy.
Mehrabi participated at the 2008 Summer Olympics, and was defeated 2-0 in the first round. Mehrabi participated at six BWF World Championships.
In November 2011 Mehrabi refused to play against Israeli Maccabiah Games champion Misha Zilberman. Ironically, Mehrabi was a member of the ‘Champions for Peace’ club, a group of 70 athletes committed to serving peace in the world through sport, created by Peace and Sport, a Monaco-based international organization.
Mehrabi was the Athletes' Commission Chairman and a Council member of the Badminton World Federation. He graduated with physical education degree from the Azad University.
Mehrabi retired from his active sports career in 2012. Following his retirement, he worked with the Organising Committee for the inaugural European Games in Baku, as well as with Peace and Sport and Special Olympics.
In December 2014, he joined the Sports Department of the International Olympic Committee (IOC), leading the unit responsible for athlete relations and engagement programmes.
With the establishment of the IOC Athletes’ Department in 2021, as part of the Olympic Agenda 2020+5 implementation, he was appointed its Director.

Achievements

BWF International Challenge/Series

Men's singles
YearTournamentOpponentScoreResult
2005South Africa Internationalsilver2