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Iran at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	IRI
NPC	I.R. Iran National Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.ir
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors	110 in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Eshrat Kordestani
Medals Ranked 15th	Gold 8 Silver 9 Bronze 7 Total 24
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Iran competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.

Competitors

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event Date  Gold Gholamreza Rahimi Archery Men's individual recurve open 13 September  Gold Zahra Nemati Archery Women's Individual recurve open 15 September  Gold Mohammad Khalvandi Athletics Men's Javelin Throw–F57 12 September  Gold Majid Farzin Powerlifting Men's 80 kg 12 September  Gold Siamand Rahman Powerlifting Men's +107 kg 14 September  Gold Sareh Javanmardi Shooting Women's 10m air pistol SH1 9 September  Gold Shooting Mixed 50m pistol SH1 14 September  Gold Sitting Volleyball team Mehrzad Mehravan Morteza Mehrzad Majid Lashkarisanami Davoud Alipourian (c) Abolfazl Oliyaei Ramezan Salehihajikolaei Sadegh Bigdeli Meisam Ali Pour Hossein Golestani Isa Zirahi Arash Khormali Mahdi Babadi Sitting volleyball Sitting volleyball 18 September  Silver Zahra Nemati Ebrahim Ranjbarkivaj Archery Team recurve open 11 September  Silver Saman Pakbaz Athletics Men's Shot Put – F12 8 September  Silver Alireza Ghaleh Naseri Athletics Men's Discus Throw – F56 10 September  Silver Sajad Mohammadian Athletics Men's Shot Put – F42 12 September  Silver Abdollah Heydari Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F57 12 September  Silver Sajad Nikparast Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F13 14 September  Silver Hamed Amiri Athletics Men's Shot Put – F55 16 September  Silver Football 5-a-side team Meysam Shojaeiyan Behzad Zadaliasghari Mohammadreza Mehninasab Hossein Rajabpour (c) Ahmadreza Shahhosseini Sadegh Rahimighasr Amir Pourrazavi Mohammad Heidari Rasool Baseri Akbar Shoushtari Football 5-a-side Football 5-a-side 17 September  Silver Football 7-a-side team Moslem Khazaei Pirsarabi Hashem Rastegarimobin (c) Lotfollah Jangjou Rasoul Atashafrouz Sadegh Hassani Baghi Mohammad Kharat Behnam Sohrabi Hossein Tiz Bor Mehdi Jamali Jasem Bakhshi Hassan Safari Farzad Mehri Moslem Akbari Babak Safari Football 7-a-side Football 7-a-side 16 September  Bronze Ebrahim Ranjbarkivaj Archery Men's individual recurve open 13 September  Bronze Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani Athletics Men's 1500m T20 13 September  Bronze Asadollah Azimi Athletics Men's Shot Put – F53 14 September  Bronze Javad Hardani Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F38 15 September  Bronze Mohsen Kaedi Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F34 15 September  Bronze Javid Ehsani Shakib Athletics Men's Shot Put – F57 17 September  Bronze Ali Sadeghzadeh Powerlifting Men's –107 kg 14 September

Medals by sport Sport Total Archery 2 1 1 4 Powerlifting 2 0 1 3 Shooting 2 0 0 2 Athletics 1 6 5 12 Sitting volleyball 1 0 0 1 Football 5-a-side 0 1 0 1 Football 7-a-side 0 1 0 1 Total 8 9 7 24 Medals by date Day Date Total 1 8 September 0 1 0 1 2 9 September 1 0 0 1 3 10 September 0 1 0 1 4 11 September 0 1 0 1 5 12 September 2 2 0 4 6 13 September 1 0 2 3 7 14 September 2 1 2 5 8 15 September 1 0 2 3 9 16 September 0 2 0 2 10 17 September 0 1 1 2 11 18 September 1 0 0 1 Total 8 9 7 24 Medals by gender Gender Total Percentage Male 5 8 7 20 83.33% Female 3 0 0 3 12.50% Mixed 0 1 0 1 4.17% Total 8 9 7 24 100%

The death of Para-cyclist

Iranian Para-cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad died following an accident during men's C4/C5 road race at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. He was involved in a serious crash on Saturday (17 September) and sustained severe injuries to his neck. The 48-year-old rider received emergency treatment at the scene before being transported to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Following Golbarnezhad's passing, the Iranian flag has been lowered to half-mast in the Paralympic Village. The Paralympic flag will also be flown at half-mast in the Paralympic Village and at the Riocentro venue, where Iran played Bosnia and Herzegovina in the sitting volleyball gold medal match on Sunday (18 September).

Disability classifications

Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.

Archery

Iran earned a spot in archery at both the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the 2015 Asian Archery Championships as a result of performance of Zahra Nemati at the event. She also carried the Iranian flag into the Olympic opening ceremony. Should she compete in both, she will be the first archer to do so since Italy's Paola Fantato did this at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. She took up the sport in 2006, two years after a spinal-cord injury that occurred during an accident. Prior to that, she competed in taekwondo where she had a black belt. Six months after taking up the sport, she won the Iranian national championships. She competed at the 2011 Archery World Championships, and set four world records at the Italy hosted event. She will go to Rio as a defending Paralympic gold medalist in the women's individual recurve W1/W2, and bronze medalist in the women's team recurve open. She also won gold at the 2013 World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. She also won a bronze medal at the same event.

Men

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Gholamreza Rahimi	Individual recurve open	624	5	Kim (KOR) W 6–2	Yu (CHN) W 6–0	Ueyama (JPN) W 6–2	Ranjbar (IRI) W 6–4	Netsiri (THA) W 7–3
Ebrahim Ranjbar		637	1	Jonasts (LAT) W 6–2	Phillips (GBR) W 6–4	Sawicki (POL) W 7–3	Rahimi (IRI) L 6–4	Rezende (BRA) W 7–1
Majid Kakoosh	Individual compound W1	628	7	—	Hatem (FRA) W 131–129	Drahoninsky (CZE) L 144–124	Did not advance
Hadi Nori	Individual compound open	685	3	Yahaya (MAS) W 136–126	Ai (CHN) L 138–134	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Mohadeseh Kohansal	Individual recurve open	541	24	Eroglu (TUR) W 6–2	Dzoba-Balyan (UKR) L 0–6	Did not advance
Zahra Nemati		627	2	Valiyeva (AZE) W 6–0	Jo (KOR) W 6–0	Mijno (ITA) W 6–4	Lee (KOR) W 6–0	Wu (CHN) W 6–4
Somayeh Abbaspour	Individual compound open	657	2	Bye	Kupczyk (GER) W 140–129	Grinham (GBR) W 137–136	Lin (CHN) L 137–129	Kim (KOR) L 140–138	4

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Ranking Round		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Zahra Nemati Ebrahim Ranjbar	Team recurve open	1264	1	France (FRA) W 6–0	Great Britain (GBR) W 5–4	Italy (ITA) W 6–0	China (CHN) L 3–5
Somayeh Abbaspour Hadi Nori	Team compound open	1342	1	Bye	South Korea (KOR) L 148–153	Did not advance

Athletics

The following 24 men and 3 woman will represent Iran at 2016 Summer Paralympics. A total of 27 athletes will compete for Iran at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Track

Athlete (Guide)	Events	Heat		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hamid Eslami (Hossein Salehi Manesh)	1500m T11	DSQ		Did not advance
Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani	1500m T20	—		3:56.24
Ahmad Ojaghloo	100m T47	11.22	5 Q	11.27	8

Field

Athlete	Events	Result	Rank
Saman Pakbaz	Shot Put – F12	15.98
Yunes Seifipour	Shot Put – F32	8.40	5
Siamak Saleh-Farajzadeh	Shot Put – F34	10.65	6
Mohsen Hosseinipanah	Shot Put – F35	13.14	5
Mehran Nekouei Majd		14.54	4
Sajad Mohammadian	Shot Put – F42	14.31
Asadollah Azimi	Shot Put – F53	8.14
Alireza Mokhtari		7.87 SB	4
Jalil Bagheri	Shot Put – F55	11.16 SB	6
Hamed Amiri		11.40 WR
Javid Ehsani Shakib	Shot Put – F57	14.13 PB
Mohsen Kaedi	Shot Put – F34	10.70	5
	Javelin Throw – F34	33.42 SB
Sajjad Nikparast	Javelin Throw – F13	62.74 SB
Javad Hardani	Javelin Throw – F38	48.46 PB
Mohammad Fathi Ganji	Javelin Throw – F46	54.67 PB	4
Mohammad Khalvandi	Javelin Throw – F57	46.12 WR
Abdollah Heydari		43.77
Ali Mohammadyari	Discus Throw Throw – F56	NM	-
Alireza Ghaleh Naseri		44.04
Ali Olfatnia	Long Jump – T37	5.52 SB	9

Women

Cycling

With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Iran qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements.

5-a-side football

Iran qualified for the Paralympics after finishing first at the 2015 IBSA Blind Football Asian Championships. Iran opened round robin play 5–0 win against Malaysia. Next, they drew 0–0 with Japan. Their third game saw them crush India 10–0. They then drew 0–0 with China. Their last game of group play was a 4–0 win against South Korea. Their win put them second in round robin play. They met China in a single placement final, which they won in a 1–0 penalty shootout. Iran's Ahmadreza Shahhosseini was given the tournament's Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer. The team was coached by Javad Felfeli with Mohammadreza Shaddelbasir the team's guide.

The following is the Iran squad in the football 5-a-side tournament of the 2016 Summer Paralympics.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil (H)	3	2	1	0	5	1	+4	7	Semi finals
2	Iran	3	1	2	0	2	0	+2	5
3	Turkey	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2	2	5th–6th place match
4	Morocco	3	0	1	2	2	6	−4	1	7th–8th place match

Turkey	0–0	Iran
	Report

Morocco	0–2	Iran
	Report	Rajabpour 13' Zadaliasghari 14'

Brazil	0–0	Iran
	Report

Semi-final

Argentina	0–0	Iran
	Report
Penalties
Espinillo Velo Véliz	1–2	Rahimighasr Shahhosseini

Gold medal match

Brazil	1–0	Iran
Ricardinho 12'	Report

7-a-side football

Iran qualified for the 2016 Rio Games following the suspension of Russia. The IPC ruled that there could not be a redraw for the groups. This resulted in Iran being put into Group A with the Netherlands, Argentina and the United States.

Iran goes to Rio as reigning 2008 and 2012 Paralympic bronze medalists. They had missed out on qualification for Rio initially because they had visa issues that did not allow them to participate in the IFCPF World Championships, and there were not enough teams to allow for a viable Asian qualifying competition. The IFCPF said in their rationale for picking Iran that it would increase continental inclusion from 2 to 3, and they would be replacing one potential medalist with another potential medalist. Iran goes into the tournament ranked 12th in the world.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	3	3	0	0	7	1	+6	9	Semi finals
2	Netherlands	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Argentina	3	1	0	2	4	7	−3	3	5th–6th place match
4	United States	3	0	1	2	4	7	−3	1	7th–8th place match

Judo

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage Final	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Seyed Omid Nouri Jafari	Men's 81 kg	Junk (GER) W 1113–0001	Lee (KOR) L 0003–0002	Did not advance	Khalilov (UZB) W 0111–0021	Kosinov (UKR) L 000–100	5
Hamed Alizadeh	Men's 100 kg	Porter (USA) W 0s1–110	Fernandez Sastre (CUB) L 11s3–0s2	Did not advance	Abdullakhanli (AZE) L 0s1–0s2	Did not advance
Hamzeh Nadri	Men's +100 kg	Montero (VEN) W 0–101	Jimenez (CUB) L 0–0s1	Did not advance	Albdoor (IRQ) W 0s4–100	Masaki (JPN) L 0s2–100	5

Paracanoeing

Iran earned a qualifying spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport following their performance at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Milan, Italy where the top six finishers in each Paralympic event earned a qualifying spot for their nation. Shahla Behrouzirad earned the spot for Iran after finishing sixth in the women's KL3 event.

Women

Powerlifting

Siamand Rahman worked on qualifying for the 2016 Games at the 2015 IPC Powerlifting Asian Open Championships. Competing in the men's over 107 kg event, he set a new world record of 295 kg on his way to winning gold.

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Hamzeh Mohammadi	Men's –65 kg	187 kg	4
Majid Farzin	Men's –80 kg	240 kg WR
Seyedhamed Solhipouravanji	Men's –88 kg	NM	-
Saman Razi	Men's –97 kg	221 kg	4
Ali Sadeghzadeh	Men's –107 kg	226 kg
Siamand Rahman	Men's +107 kg	310 kg WR PR

Shooting

The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. Iran earned a qualifying spot at this event in the P2 – 10m Air Pistol Women SH1 event as a result of Sareh Javanmardi winning a gold medal.

The country sent shooters to 2015 IPC IPC Shooting World Cup in Osijek, Croatia, where Rio direct qualification was also available. They earned a qualifying spot at this event based on the performance of Samira Eram in the P2 – 10m Air Pistol Women SH1 event. Because no woman qualified based on the criteria in P3 – 25m Pistol Mixed SH1 event at this competition, an extra spot on the women's side was given in the P4 – 50m Pistol Mixed SH1. Iran's Alieh Mahmoudi acquired this spot for her country.

The third opportunity for direct qualification for shooters to the Rio Paralympics took place at the 2015 IPC IPC Shooting World Cup in Sydney, Australia. At this competition, Mahdi Zamani earned a qualifying spot for their country in the P1- Men's 10m Air Pistol SH1 event. Masoumeh Khodabakhshi earned another qualifying spot for Iran in the R4- Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2 event.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Mahdi Zamanishurabi	Men's 10m air pistol SH1	551-7x	24	Did not advance
Sareh Javanmardi	Women's 10m air pistol SH1	376-8x	2 Q	193.4 FPR
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	534-3x	3 Q	189.5
Samira Eram	Women's 10m air pistol SH1	358-4x	16	Did not advance
Alieh Mahmoudikordkheili	Women's 10m air pistol SH1	376-9x	1 Q	72.7	8
	Mixed 50m pistol SH1	522-7x	12	Did not advance
Masoumeh Khodabakhshi	Mixed 10m Air Rifle Standing SH2	627.0	14	Did not advance

Swimming

Sitting volleyball

Men

Iran men's national sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2016 Games at the World Championships. Iran men's national sitting volleyball team were also in the qualification run for the 2016 Summer Paralympics at the 2014 Asian Para-Games, losing the gold medal match in sets of 25–12, 25–20, 29–27 against China men's national sitting volleyball team.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Iran	3	3	0	6	9	0	MAX	228	173	1.318	Semi-finals
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3	2	1	5	6	3	2.000	206	184	1.120
3	Ukraine	3	1	2	4	3	8	0.375	237	265	0.894	Classification 5th / 6th
4	China	3	0	3	3	2	9	0.222	216	265	0.815	Classification 7th / 8th

10 September 2016 10:00	Iran	3–0	China	Riocentro - Pavilion 6, Rio de Janeiro
	(25–22, 25–13, 25–14) Report

12 September 2016 20:30	Iran	3–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina	Riocentro - Pavilion 6, Rio de Janeiro
	(25–17, 25–22, 25–17) Report

14 September 2016 20:30	Ukraine	0–3	Iran	Riocentro - Pavilion 6, Rio de Janeiro
	(22–25, 26–28, 20–25) Report

Women

Iran women's national sitting volleyball team qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics after reaching the finals of the 2014 Asian Para Games, the first time the women's team had qualified for the Paralympics. They won the event, after beating China who had previously qualified for the 2016 Games at the world championships earlier in the year in sets of 25–15, 25–12, and 25–15. Maleki Zeinab Dizicheh was one of the team's key players in the tournament. In the year before the Games, the team trained in Isfahan, where there were 20 members at camp along with players from the junior national team. Warm up events for the team include the March 2015 Intercontinental Cup.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	China	3	3	0	6	9	2	4.500	246	169	1.456	Semi-finals
2	United States	3	2	1	5	8	3	2.667	256	156	1.641
3	Iran	3	1	2	4	3	6	0.500	160	197	0.812	Classification 5th / 6th
4	Rwanda	3	0	3	3	0	9	0.000	85	225	0.378	Classification 7th / 8th

10 September 2016 14:00	United States	3-0	Iran	Riocentro - Pavilion 6, Rio de Janeiro
	(25–17, 25–13, 25–9) Report

12 September 2016 10:00	Rwanda	0–3	Iran	Riocentro - Pavilion 6, Rio de Janeiro
	(10–25, 19–25, 18–25) Report

14 September 2016 14:00	Iran	0–3	China	Riocentro - Pavilion 6, Rio de Janeiro
	(16–25, 19–25, 11–25) Report

Wheelchair basketball

The Iran men's national wheelchair basketball team has qualified for the 2016 Rio Paralympics. During the draw, Brazil had the choice of which group they wanted to be in. They were partnered with Spain, who would be in the group Brazil did not select. Brazil chose Group B, which included Iran, the United States, Great Britain, Germany and Algeria. That left Spain in Group A with Australia, Canada, Turkey, the Netherlands and Japan.

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts	Qualification
1	United States	5	5	0	402	206	+196	10	Quarter-finals
2	Great Britain	5	4	1	364	263	+101	9
3	Brazil (H)	5	2	3	309	314	−5	7
4	Germany	5	2	3	337	314	+23	7
5	Iran	5	2	3	295	361	−66	7	9th/10th place playoff
6	Algeria	5	0	5	187	436	−249	5	11th/12th place playoff

1. ^ Head-to-head record: Brazil 3 pts, +11 PD; Germany 3 pts, +6 PD; Iran 3 pts, −17 PD

See also

• Iran at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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v t e National Paralympic Committees at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Comoros Congo Democratic Republic of the Congo Egypt Ethiopia Gabon Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zimbabwe
Americas	Argentina Aruba Bermuda Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Cambodia China Chinese Taipei East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka South Korea Syria Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam
Europe	Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Faroe Islands Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Latvia Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	Australia Fiji New Zealand Papua New Guinea Samoa Tonga
Independent	Independent Paralympic Athletes
Banned	Russia

• Nations at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
• Iran at the Paralympics
• 2016 in Iranian sport