Iran at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

See also: Iran at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Iran at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Flag of Iran
IPC code	IRI
NPC	I.R. Iran National Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.ir
in Tokyo
Competitors	62 in 10 sports
Flag bearer (opening)	Zahra Nemati & Nourmohammad Arekhi
Flag bearer (closing)	Sareh Javanmardi
Medals Ranked 13th	Gold 12 Silver 11 Bronze 1 Total 24
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Iran competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan, from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was their ninth consecutive appearance at the Summer Paralympics since 1988.

Medalists

Main article: 2020 Summer Paralympics medal table

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Rouhollah Rostami Powerlifting Men's 80 kg 28 August  Gold Vahid Nouri Judo Men's 90 kg 29 August  Gold Mohammadreza Kheirollahzadeh Judo Men's +100 kg 29 August  Gold Amir Khosravani Athletics Men's long jump T12 30 August  Gold Mahdi Olad Athletics Men's shot put F11 30 August  Gold Hashemiyeh Motaghian Athletics Women's javelin throw F56 31 August  Gold Sareh Javanmardi Shooting Women's 10 metre air pistol SH1 31 August  Gold Saeid Afrooz Athletics Men's javelin throw F34 1 September  Gold Zahra Nemati Archery Women's individual recurve open 2 September  Gold Hamed Amiri Athletics Men's javelin throw F54 3 September  Gold Iran men's national sitting volleyball team Mehrzad Mehravan Morteza Mehrzad Meisam Ali Pour Davoud Alipourian Morteza Ramezani Gerakoei Seyed Mohammed Hossein Hosseini Jed Sadegh Bigdeli Majid Lashkarisanami Hossein Golestani Mohammed Nemati Ramezan Salehihajikolaei Mahdi Babadi Sitting volleyball Men's tournament 4 September  Gold Asghar Aziziaghdam Taekwondo Men's +75 kg 4 September  Silver Amir Jafari Powerlifting Men's 65 kg 27 August  Silver Amanolah Papi Athletics Men's javelin throw F57 28 August  Silver Alireza Mokhtari Athletics Men's shot put F53 29 August  Silver Hamed Solhipour Powerlifting Men's 97 kg 29 August  Silver Mansour Pourmirzaei Powerlifting Men's +107 kg 30 August  Silver Ramezan Biabani Archery Men's individual compound open 31 August  Silver Mahdi Olad Athletics Men's discus throw F11 2 September  Silver Ali Pirouj Athletics Men's javelin throw F13 2 September  Silver Mahdi Pourrahnama Taekwondo Men's 75 kg 3 September  Silver Sadegh Beit Sayah Athletics Men's javelin throw F41 4 September  Silver Sajad Mohammadian Athletics Men's shot put F63 4 September  Bronze Saman Razi Powerlifting Men's 107 kg 30 August

Medals by sport Sport Total Athletics 5 6 0 11 Judo 2 0 0 2 Powerlifting 1 3 1 5 Archery 1 1 0 2 Taekwondo 1 1 0 2 Shooting 1 0 0 1 Sitting volleyball 1 0 0 1 Total 12 11 1 24 Medals by date Day Date Total 1 24 August 0 0 0 0 2 25 August 0 0 0 0 3 26 August 0 0 0 0 4 27 August 0 1 0 1 5 28 August 1 1 0 2 6 29 August 2 2 0 4 7 30 August 2 1 1 4 8 31 August 2 1 0 3 9 1 September 1 0 0 1 10 2 September 1 2 0 3 11 3 September 1 1 0 2 12 4 September 2 2 0 4 13 5 September 0 0 0 0 Total 12 11 1 24 Medals by gender^(Comparison graphs) Gender Total Percentage Male 9 11 1 21 87.5% Female 3 0 0 3 12.5% Mixed 0 0 0 0 0% Total 12 11 1 24 100%

Competitors

Source:^[1]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	4	2	6
Athletics	14	2	16
Canoeing	1	1	2
Cycling	1	0	1
Judo	2	0	2
Powerlifting	5	0	5
Sitting Volleyball	12	0	12
Shooting	0	3	3
Taekwondo	2	1	3
Wheelchair Basketball	12	0	12
Total	53	9	62

Archery

Main article: Archery at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran qualified one athlete in Men's Individual W1, one athlete in Men's Individual Compound Open, two ticket in Men's Individual Recurve, one athlete in Women's Individual Compound and one athlete in Women's Individual Recurve.^[2][3]

Men's individual

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mohammad Reza Zandi	W1	643 SB	6	Bye	Bye	Li Ji (CHN) W 137–129	Drahonínský (CZE) L 131–139	Hekimoğlu (TUR) L 134–139	4
Alisina Manshaezadeh	Compound	699 PB	4	Coates-Palgrave (RSA) W 143–130	Forsberg (FIN) L 143–145	did not advance
Ramezan Biabani		699 PB	2	Marchant (AUS) W 141–139	Van Montagu (BEL) W 143–142	Shigaef (RPC) W 143(X)–143(9)	Ai (CHN) W 146–144	He (CHN) L 143–147
Gholamreza Rahimi	Recurve	644 PR	1	Bye	Mather (USA) L 5–6	did not advance

Women's individual

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Farzaneh Asgari	Compound	677 PB	12	Bye	Rubio (ESP) W 140–134	Virgilio (ITA) L 135–136	did not advance
Zahra Nemati	Recurve	630	3	Bye	Barantseva (RPC) W 6–5	Dergovics (BRA) W 7–1	Poimenidou (GRE) W 6–2	Petrilli (ITA) W 6–5

Mixed team

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Farzaneh Asgari Ramezan Biabani	Mix compound	1376	4	Bye	Bye	Great Britain (GBR) W 153–151	China (CHN) L 146–150	RPC (RPC) L 151–153	4
Zahra Nemati Gholamreza Rahimi	Mix recurve	1274	2	Bye	Bye	Great Britain (GBR) W 6–0	Italy (ITA) L 3–5	China (CHN) L 2–6	4

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

16 athletes in 19 events represented Iran at the 2020 Summer Paralympics.^[4]

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Men's Track
Vahid Alinajimi	Men's 100m T13	11.18 PB	9	did not advance
	Men's 400m T13	50.25 PB	9	did not advance
Men's Field
Hamed Amiri	Men's javelin throw F54	—		31.35	PR
Saeid Afrooz	Men's javelin throw F34	—		40.05	WR
Sadegh Beit Sayah	Men's javelin throw F41	—		43.35	PB
Amir Khosravani	Men's long jump T12	—		7.21	PB
Nourmohammad Arekhi	Men's discus throw F11	—		33.37	6 SB
	Men's shot put F11	—		12.78	6 SB
Ali Pirouj	Men's javelin throw F13	—		64.30	PB
Alireza Mokhtari	Men's shot put F53	—		8.48	SB
Saman Pakbaz	Men's shot put F12	—		14.29	5
Ali Asghar Javanmardi	Men's shot put F35	—		15.40	4
Sajad Mohammadian	Men's shot put F63	—		14.88	SB
Siamak Saleh Farajzadeh	Men's shot put F34	—		10.80	6 SB
Mahdi Olad	Men's discus throw F11	—		40.60	SB
	Men's shot put F11	—		14.43	SB
Amanolah Papi	Men's javelin throw F57	—		49.56	AR
Women's Field
Hashemiyeh Motaghian	Women's javelin throw F56	—		24.50	WR
Elnaz Darabian	Women's disk throw F53	—		12.49	6 AR

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran sent one cyclist after successfully getting a slot in the 2018 UCI Nations Ranking Allocation quota for Asia.^{[5][6][7][8][9]}

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Mahdi Mohammadi	Men's road race C4-5	Did not finish	-
	Men's road time trial C5	53:49.65	11
	Men's track individual pursuit C5	5:09.154	10

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran has qualified two athletes in Men's events in 90 and +100 kg.

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage round 1	Repechage round 2	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Vahid Nouri	90 kg	Bye	Cavalcante (BRA) W 10s1–0	Latchoumanaya (FRA) W 1s2–0s1	Bye	Bye	Stewart (GBR) W 10–0s2
Mohammadreza Kheirollahzadeh	+100kg	Bye	Subba (JAM) W 10s1–0s1	Gwang-geun (KOR) W 10–0s1	Bye	Bye	Chikoidze (GEO) W 10s1–0

Canoeing

Main article: Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran has qualified one athlete in Women's KL3 events and one athlete in Men's VL2.

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semi-Finals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Men
Eslam Jahedi	Men's VL2 200m	1:01.395	4 SF	58.057	4	Did not advance
Women
Shahla Behrouzirad	Women's KL3 200m	54.755	4 SF	51.316	3 FA	52.789	7

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Men
Amir Jafari	Men's 65kg	195
Rouhollah Rostami	Men's 80kg	234
Hamed Solhipour	Men's 97kg	222
Saman Razi	Men's 107kg	231
Mansour Pourmirzaei	Men's +107kg	241

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran entered five athletes into the Paralympic competition. All of them successfully broke the Paralympic qualification at the 2018 WSPS World Championships which was held in Cheongju, South Korea, 2019 WSPS World Cup which was held in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates and 2019 WSPS World Championships which was held in Sydney, Australia.^[10][11]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Women
Sareh Javanmardi	Women's P2 – 10 m air pistol SH1	572 QF QPR	1	239.2	WR PR
Samira Eram	Women's P2 – 10 m air pistol SH1	532	17	did not advance
Roghayeh Shojaei	Women's R2 – 10 m air rifle standing SH1	624.1 QF	4	163.0	6
Mixed
Sareh Javanmardi	Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1	539 QF	3	118.8	7
Samira Eram	Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1	465	34	did not advance
Roghayeh Shojaei	Mixed R3 – 10 m air rifle prone SH1	626.2	39	did not advance

Sitting Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran's men's sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after winning the 2018 World ParaVolley Championships.^[12][13][14]

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Semifinal	Final / BM / Cl.
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Iran men's	Men's tournament	Germany W 3–0	Brazil W 3–0	China W 3–0	1	Bosnia and Herzegovina W 3–0	RPC W 3–1

Men's tournament

Main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Iran	3	3	0	3	9	0	MAX	225	177	1.271	Semifinals
2	Brazil	3	1	2	1	4	7	0.571	253	258	0.981
3	Germany	3	1	2	1	4	7	0.571	247	258	0.957	Fifth place match
4	China	3	1	2	1	4	7	0.571	241	273	0.883	Seventh place match

Source: TOCOG

28 August 2021 (2021-08-28) 10:00 v	Iran	3–0	Germany	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Vanessa Redes (BRA), Khalid Shanishah (LBA)
	(25–23, 25–16, 25–17) Results Statistics

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30 August 2021 (2021-08-30) 20:30 v	Iran	3–0	Brazil	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Ritsuto Yamamichi (JPN), Krisztina Árpás (HUN)
	(25–19, 25–23, 25–22) Results Statistics

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31 August 2021 (2021-08-31) 18:30 v	China	0–3	Iran	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Christina Fiebich (USA), Toomas Murulo (EST)
	(21–25, 22–25, 14–25) Results Statistics

Semi final

2 September 2021 (2021-09-02) 20:30 v	Iran	3–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Dominik Raca (CRO), Andre Calado (BRA)
	(25–16, 25–16, 25–17) Results Statistics

Final

4 September 2021 (2021-09-04) 19:00 v	RPC (RPC)	1–3	Iran	Makuhari Messe, Tokyo Referees: Toomas Murulo (EST), Benno Meijer (NED)
	(21–25, 14–25, 25–19, 17–25) Results Statistics

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran qualified three athletes to compete at the Paralympics competition. Two of them qualified by entered top six in the world ranking, while the other athlete qualified by winning the gold medal at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.

Athlete	Event	First round	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	First repechage round	Repechage semi-final	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Men
Mahdi Pourrahnama	Men's −75 kg	Bye	Çelik (TUR) W 37–21	Dombayev (KAZ) W 24–6	Bye	Bye	García Lopez (MEX) L 20–26
Asghar Aziziaghdam	Men's +75 kg	Bye	Molina (CRC) W 11–9	Ataev (RPC) W 9–4	Bye	Bye	Mikulić (CRO) W 12–10
Women
Rayehe Shahab	Women's +58 kg	Naimova (UZB) L 9–30	did not advance		Mariscal (MEX) W 17–10	Akermach (MAR) WWD	Truesdale (GBR) L 31–41	5

Wheelchair basketball

Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics

Iran's men's wheelchair basketball team qualified for the 2020 Summer Paralympics after finishing in top three at the 2019 IWBF Asia Oceania Wheelchair Basketball Championship in Pattaya, Thailand. The following is the Iran roster in the men's wheelchair basketball tournament of the 2020 Summer Paralympics. ^[15]

Islamic Rep. of Iran men's national wheelchair basketball team - 2020 Summer Paralympics roster
Players	Coaches
No. Name Age – Date of birth Pts. 4 Faleh Ayashi 33 – (1987-09-23)23 September 1987 2.0 5 Hassan Abdi 35 – (1985-11-22)22 November 1985 2.0 6 Amirreza Ahmadi 20 – (2000-10-16)16 October 2000 3.5 7 Mohsen Tolouei Tamardash 36 – (1985-04-05)5 April 1985 3.5 8 Vahid Saadatpoormoghadam 37 – (1984-08-20)20 August 1984 2.5 9 Danial Zakeri Dehvosta 33 – (1988-04-18)18 April 1988 1.0 10 Mohammad Mohammad Nezhad 29 – (1992-01-30)30 January 1992 1.0 11 Abdoljalil Gharanjik 34 – (1986-12-26)26 December 1986 1.5 12 Mohammadhassan Sayari 24 – (1997-08-17)17 August 1997 4.0 13 Reza Eivazi 22 – (1999-01-02)2 January 1999 4.0 14 Mojtaba Kamali 22 – (1998-10-09)9 October 1998 4.5 15 Iman Bagzadehfard 34 – (1987-02-11)11 February 1987 4.0	Head coach Abbas Aghakoucheki Assistant coach(es) Kamal Eshgh Legend Age - describes age on 24 August 2021

Team	Event	Group stage						Quarter-final	Semi-final	Final / BM / Cl.
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Iran men's	Men's tournament	Australia L 39–81	United States L 41–65	Algeria W 81–47	Great Britain L 57–69	Germany L 53–56	5	—		South Korea W 64–54	9

See also

• Iran at the Paralympics
• Iran at the 2020 Summer Olympics

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