Iran at the 2008 Summer Paralympics explained

Npc:	IRI
Npcname:	I.R. Iran National Paralympic Committee
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Year:	2008
Location:	Beijing
Competitors:	72
Sports:	9
Flagbearer:	Mohammad Reza Mirzaei
Rank:	22
Gold:	5
Silver:	6
Bronze:	3
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1988

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.

Competitors

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	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

width=180	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	width=55	Total
	2	3	1	6
			1	1
		1		1
	2	2	1	5
	1			1
Total	5	6	3	14

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's discus throw F37/38
			Men's javelin throw F57/58
			Men's 60 kg
			Men's +100 kg
			Men
			Men's discus throw F42
			Men's discus throw F55/56
			Men's javelin throw F53/54
			Men's 60 kg
			Men's 67.5 kg
			Men's 75 kg
			Men's javelin throw F37/38
			Men
			Men's 100 kg

Results by event

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1			Final		Rank
Athlete	Event	Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Rank
Ali Elahi	10000 m T12	bgcolor=#DCDCDC colspan=3		34:38.75	8	8
Ali Elahi	5000 m T13	1	16:03.55	5	Did not finish

Athlete	Event	Result	Score	Rank
Mehdi Asghari	Shot put F42	12.50	7
Mehrdad Karamzadeh	Shot put F42	13.58	5
Mehrdad Karamzadeh	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
Javad Hardani	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
Fatemeh Montazeri	Discus throw F57/58	28.20	897	8

Football 7-a-side

See main article: Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Men^[2]

Squad list	Preliminaries		Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad list	Pool B	Rank	Semifinal	Final	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	W 4–2	2	L 0–5	3rd place match W 4–0
	W 3–0
	L 0–4

Goalball

See main article: Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Men

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

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage final	Final	Rank
Saeid Rahmati	60 kg	W 1000–0010	W 0100–0010	W 1000–0000		L 0000–1000
Reza Golmohammadi	66 kg	W 1000–0000	W 0010–0003	L 0000–1001		3rd place match L 0000–1000	5
Mousa Pourabbas	73 kg	W 1011–0000	L 0000–0010	Bye	Repechage L 0000–1011	Did not advance	7
Amir Mirhassan Nattaj	81 kg	L 0000–1001	Did not advance	Repechage W 0002–0000	Repechage W 0101–0001	Repechage L 0001–0011	5
Hamzeh Nadri	100 kg	L 0000–1001	Did not advance	Repechage L 0000–1000	Did not advance	9

Powerlifting

See 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

See main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	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

Mixed

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

Sitting volleyball

See main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Men^[3]

Squad list	Preliminaries		Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad list	Pool B	Rank	Semifinal	Final	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	W 3–0 25–7, 25–7, 25–5	1	W 3–0 25–22, 25–13, 25–20	W 3–0 25–22, 25–18, 25–22
	W 3–0 25–9, 25–11, 25–8
	W 3–0 27–25, 25–12, 25–18

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries / Quarterfinal		Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Groups	Rank	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Narges Khazaei	Singles 1/2	L 1–3 5–11, 4–11, 12–10, 9–11	Group B 2	Did not advance	8
Narges Khazaei	Singles 1/2	W 3–2 11–6, 7–11, 11–9, 7–11, 11–6	Group B 2		8
Forough Bakhtiari	Singles 3	L 0–3 6–11, 4–11, 6–11	Group B 2	Did not advance	8
		L 2–3 11–6, 11–7, 9–11, 8–11, 8–11
		W 3–0 11–6, 11–6, 11–5
Forough Bakhtiari Narges Khazaei	Team 1–3	L 2–3 3–1, 0–3, 2–3, 3–0, 0–3		Did not advance	5

Wheelchair basketball

See main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics.

Men^[4]

Squad list	Preliminaries		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad list	Pool A	Rank	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	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	W 73–62	3	L Walkover	disqualified
	W 92–66
	W 69–50
	L 63–73
	L 62–93

External links

International Paralympic Committee

Notes and References

Web site: Bahman Ansari Official Twitter.
Web site: Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games – Football 7-a-side – Men. International Paralympic Committee. 6 September 2012.
Web site: Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games – Volleyball (Sitting) – Men. International Paralympic Committee. 6 September 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150829051520/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/results2pdf.php?sport=volleyball&competition=2008PG&gender=m&discipline=Sitting&event=&eclass=. 29 August 2015.
Web site: Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games – Wheelchair Basketball – Men. International Paralympic Committee. 6 September 2012. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20150829051531/http://www.paralympic.org/ipc_results/results2pdf.php?sport=basketball&competition=2008PG&gender=m&discipline=&event=&eclass=. 29 August 2015.