Iran at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Iran participated at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. The country's delegation consists of 72 competitors in nine sports: football 7-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, shooting, table tennis, track and field athletics, volleyball, and wheelchair basketball.

Iran at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	IRI
NPC	I.R. Iran National Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.ir
in Beijing
Competitors	72 in 9 sports
Flag bearer	Mohammad Reza Mirzaei
Medals Ranked 22nd	Gold 5 Silver 6 Bronze 3 Total 14
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
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Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	13	1	14
Football 7-a-side	11		11
Goalball	6		6
Judo	5		5
Powerlifting	7		7
Shooting	2	1	3
Sitting volleyball	12		12
Table tennis		2	2
Wheelchair basketball	12		12
Total	68	4	72

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	2	3	1	6
Football 7-a-side			1	1
Judo		1		1
Powerlifting	2	2	1	5
Sitting volleyball	1			1
Total	5	6	3	14

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Javad Hardani	Athletics	Men's discus throw F37/38
Gold	Mohammad Reza Mirzaei	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F57/58
Gold	Hamzeh Mohammadi	Powerlifting	Men's 60 kg
Gold	Kazem Rajabi	Powerlifting	Men's +100 kg
Gold	Mohammad Hosseinifar Mohammad Reza Rahimi Reza Peidayesh Davoud Alipourian Mehdi Hamidzadeh Nasser Hassanpour Sadegh Bigdeli Jalil Imeri Saeid Ebrahimi Issa Zirahi Ramezan Salehi Mohammad Khaleghi	Sitting volleyball	Men
Silver	Mehrdad Karamzadeh	Athletics	Men's discus throw F42
Silver	Ali Mohammadyari	Athletics	Men's discus throw F55/56
Silver	Abdolreza Jokar	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F53/54
Silver	Saeid Rahmati	Judo	Men's 60 kg
Silver	Ali Hosseini	Powerlifting	Men's 67.5 kg
Silver	Majid Farzin	Powerlifting	Men's 75 kg
Bronze	Javad Hardani	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F37/38
Bronze	Habibollah Heidarimehr Esmaeil Malekzadeh Gholamreza Najafi Hadi Safari Bahman Ansari[1] Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Morteza Heidari Abdolreza Karimzadeh Rasoul Atashafrouz Moslem Akbari Ardeshir Mahini	Football 7-a-side	Men
Bronze	Ali Sadeghzadeh	Powerlifting	Men's 100 kg

Results by event

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ali Elahi	10000 m T12				34:38.75	8	8
	5000 m T13	1	16:03.55	5 q	Did not finish

Athlete	Event	Result	Score	Rank
Mehdi Asghari	Shot put F42	12.50		7
Mehrdad Karamzadeh	Shot put F42	13.58		5
	Discus throw F42	44.74
Jalil Bagheri Jeddi	Shot put F55/56	9.99	882	12
Mehdi Moradi	Shot put F57/58	13.44	1002	6
Siamak Saleh-Farajzadeh	Discus throw F33/34/52	Did not start
Jalal Khakzadieh	Discus throw F33/34/52	Did not start
Javad Hardani	Discus throw F37/38	45.62 PR	1024
	Javelin throw F37/38	47.65	972
Farzad Sepahvand	Discus throw F44	51.23	948	4
Ali Mohammadyari	Discus throw F55/56	39.39	1023
Mohsen Kaedi	Javelin throw F35/36	42.61	975	5
Abdolreza Jokar	Javelin throw F53/54	22.08 WR	1108
Mohammad Reza Mirzaei	Javelin throw F57/58	40.84 WR	1052

Women

Athlete	Event	Result	Score	Rank
Fatemeh Montazeri	Shot put F57/58	9.01	927	8
	Discus throw F57/58	28.20	897	8

Football 7-a-side

Main article: Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men^[2]

Squad list	Preliminaries		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Pool B	Rank
Habibollah Heidarimehr Esmaeil Malekzadeh Gholamreza Najafi Hadi Safari Bahman Ansari Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Morteza Heidari Abdolreza Karimzadeh Rasoul Atashafrouz Moslem Akbari Ardeshir Mahini Coach: Alireza Raadi	Ireland W 4–2	2 Q	Russia L 0–5	3rd place match  Brazil W 4–0
	Great Britain W 3–0
	Ukraine L 0–4

Goalball

Main article: Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Squad list	Preliminaries		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group B	Rank
Rahmatollah Hosseini Mohammad Soranji Mohsen Jalilvand Behzad Jahangiri Javad Jalali Mehdi Sayyahi Coach: Mohammad Bidgoli	Canada L 5–9	5	Did not advance		9th place match  Belgium W 7–2	9
	Brazil W 8–5
	Sweden L 5–10
	United States L 3–4
	China W 8–6

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage final	Final	Rank
Saeid Rahmati	60 kg	Borges (URU) W 1000–0010	Pérez (CUB) W 0100–0010	Li (CHN) W 1000–0000		Noura (ALG) L 0000–1000
Reza Golmohammadi	66 kg	García (ESP) W 1000–0000	Karpeniuk (UKR) W 0010–0003	Lamri (ALG) L 0000–1001		3rd place match  Kallunki (FIN) L 0000–1000	5
Mousa Pourabbas	73 kg	Peltoniemi (FIN) W 1011–0000	Ramirez (ARG) L 0000–0010	Bye	Repechage  Hierrezuelo (CUB) L 0000–1011	Did not advance	7
Amir Mirhassan Nattaj	81 kg	Jonard (FRA) L 0000–1001	Did not advance	Repechage  Vincze (HUN) W 0002–0000	Repechage  Pominov (UKR) W 0101–0001	Repechage  Lencina (ARG) L 0001–0011	5
Hamzeh Nadri	100 kg	Silva (BRA) L 0000–1001	Did not advance	Repechage  Porter (USA) L 0000–1000	Did not advance		9

Powerlifting

Main article: Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Morteza Dashti	48 kg	No mark
Gholam Hossein Chaltoukkar	56 kg	172.5	7
Hamzeh Mohammadi	60 kg	202.5 PR
Ali Hosseini	67.5 kg	215.0
Majid Farzin	75 kg	212.5
Ali Sadeghzadeh	100 kg	230.0
Kazem Rajabi	+100 kg	265.0 WR

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Bahman Karimi	10 m air pistol SH1	560	14	Did not advance
Ramezan Salehnejad	10 m air rifle standing SH1	586	11	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Nayyereh Akef	10 m air pistol SH1	360	11	Did not advance

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Nayyereh Akef	50 m pistol SH1	507	23	Did not advance
Bahman Karimi	50 m pistol SH1	536	4 Q	86.7	622.7	6
Ramezan Salehnejad	10 m air rifle prone SH1	588	42	Did not advance
	50 m rifle prone SH1	582	22	Did not advance

Sitting volleyball

Main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men^[3]

Squad list	Preliminaries		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Pool B	Rank
Mohammad Hosseinifar Mohammad Reza Rahimi Reza Peidayesh Davoud Alipourian Mehdi Hamidzadeh Nasser Hassanpour Sadegh Bigdeli Jalil Imeri Saeid Ebrahimi Issa Zirahi Ramezan Salehi Mohammad Khaleghi Coach: Hadi Rezaei	Japan W 3–0 25–7, 25–7, 25–5	1 Q	Russia W 3–0 25–22, 25–13, 25–20	Bosnia and Herzegovina W 3–0 25–22, 25–18, 25–22
	Brazil W 3–0 25–9, 25–11, 25–8
	Egypt W 3–0 27–25, 25–12, 25–18

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries / Quarterfinal		Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Groups	Rank
Narges Khazaei	Singles 1/2	Lafaye (FRA) L 1–3 5–11, 4–11, 12–10, 9–11	Group B 2	Did not advance		8
		Al-Bargouti (JOR) W 3–2 11–6, 7–11, 11–9, 7–11, 11–6
Forough Bakhtiari	Singles 3	Kanova (SVK) L 0–3 6–11, 4–11, 6–11	Group B 2	Did not advance		8
		Mariage (FRA) L 2–3 11–6, 11–7, 9–11, 8–11, 8–11
		Ploner (ITA) W 3–0 11–6, 11–6, 11–5
Forough Bakhtiari Narges Khazaei	Team 1–3	Great Britain L 2–3 3–1, 0–3, 2–3, 3–0, 0–3		Did not advance		5

Wheelchair basketball

Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

Men^[4]

Squad list	Preliminaries		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Pool A	Rank
Saman Bolaghi Ahmad Daghaghelehpour Alireza Ahmadi Morteza Gharibloo Adel Torfi Zakaria Hesamizadeh Hakim Mansouri Ebrahim Ahmadi Esmaeil Hosseinpour Gholamreza Nami Bahman Seifi Vahid Gholam-Azad Coach: Abdolghafour Kamrava	South Africa W 73–62	3 Q	United States L Walkover	disqualified
	Sweden W 92–66
	Japan W 69–50
	Germany L 63–73
	Canada L 62–93

References

1. "Bahman Ansari Official Twitter".
2. "Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games – Football 7-a-side – Men". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
3. "Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games – Volleyball (Sitting) – Men". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2012.
4. "Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games – Wheelchair Basketball – Men". International Paralympic Committee. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 6 September 2012.

External links

• International Paralympic Committee