Azadeh boroumand crossfit girls

Around the World will be an occasional series celebrating the female bodybuilders of a particular country, and examining any issues peculiar to muscle women there.

Our very first post in the series looks at Iran.

Remember Shiva Bagheri?

This year, Boroumand is competing in the South West and coaches at CrossFit Las Cruces in Los Cruces, N.M..

Azadeh Boroumand (@azadeh_boroumand) joins The Barbell Spin to discuss her return to CrossFit competition.

Boroumand broke school records and received the ranking of first among all Big East Conference players and 47th nationally among setters.

Azadeh Boroumand of South Central did Event 2 (2k row/50 pistols/30 hang cleans at ) in That's over a minute faster than any other female, yet.

Excel.

She was a fitness competitor in the early-ish days of fitness. If the name is unfamiliar, perhaps the body will jog your memory…

In fact, Shiva is an LA native and these days runs her own dance studios in West Hollywood, Shiva’s Dance and Fitness.

She was neither born nor has she ever lived in Iran. And as such, Shiva is the archetypal Iranian/Persian muscle woman.

She is one of the estimated four or five million people of Iranian descent or birth who live outside of the country, part of the Iranian diaspora that has largely been created by emigration from the country in the wake of the 1979 Revolution that brought about the establishment of a theocratic political system there.

Ania Anvaryfar (left)