Iran at the 2020 Summer Paralympics explained

See also: Iran at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Npc:	IRI
Country:	Iran
Year:	2020
Games:	Summer Paralympics
Games Link:	2020 Summer Paralympics
Flagcaption:	Flag of Iran
Npcname:	I.R. Iran National Paralympic Committee
Location:	Tokyo
Competitors:	62
Sports:	10
Flagbearer Open:	Zahra Nemati & Nourmohammad Arekhi
Flagbearer Close:	Sareh Javanmardi
Rank:	13
Gold:	12
Silver:	11
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
App Begin Year:	1988

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

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
				28 August
				29 August
				29 August
				30 August
				30 August
				31 August
				1 September
				2 September
	Iran men's national sitting volleyball team
				27 August
				28 August
				29 August
				29 August
				30 August
				31 August
				2 September
				4 September
				30 August

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9		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]

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
	4	2	6
	14	2	16
	1	1	2
	1	0	1
	2	0	2
	5	0	5
	12	0	12
	0	3	3
	2	1	3
	12	0	12
Total	53	9	62

Archery

See 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 /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mohammad Reza Zandi	W1	643	6			W 137–129	L 131–139	L 134–139	4
Alisina Manshaezadeh	align=left rowspan=2	Compound	699	4	W 143–130	L 143–145	Colspan=4	did not advance
Ramezan Biabani	699	2	W 141–139	W 143–142	W 143(X)–143(9)	W 146–144	L 143–147
Gholamreza Rahimi	Recurve	644	1		L 5–6	Colspan=5	did not advance

Women's individual

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Farzaneh Asgari	Compound	677	12		W 140–134	L 135–136	did not advance
Zahra Nemati	Recurve	630	3		W 6–5	W 7–1	W 6–2	W 6–5

Mixed team

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
		Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Farzaneh Asgari Ramezan Biabani	Mix compound	1376	4			W 153–151	L 146–150	L 151–153	4
Zahra Nemati Gholamreza Rahimi	Mix recurve	1274	2			W 6–0	L 3–5	L 2–6	4

Athletics

See 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	9	did not advance
Men's 400m T13	50.25	9	did not advance
Men's Field
Hamed Amiri	Men's javelin throw F54	31.35
Saeid Afrooz	Men's javelin throw F34	40.05
Sadegh Beit Sayah	Men's javelin throw F41	43.35
Amir Khosravani	Men's long jump T12	7.21
Nourmohammad Arekhi	Men's discus throw F11	33.37	6
Men's shot put F11	12.78	6
Ali Pirouj	Men's javelin throw F13	64.30
Alireza Mokhtari	Men's shot put F53	8.48
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
Siamak Saleh Farajzadeh	Men's shot put F34	10.80	6
Mahdi Olad	Men's discus throw F11	40.60
Men's shot put F11	14.43
Amanolah Papi	Men's javelin throw F57	49.56
Women's Field
Hashemiyeh Motaghian	Women's javelin throw F56	24.50
Elnaz Darabian	Women's disk throw F53	12.49	6

Cycling

See 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	align=center	-
Men's road time trial C5	53:49.65	11
Men's track individual pursuit C5	5:09.154	10

Judo

See 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 /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Vahid Nouri	90 kg		W 10s1–0	W 1s2–0s1			W 10–0s2
Mohammadreza Kheirollahzadeh	+100kg		W 10s1–0s1	W 10–0s1			W 10s1–0

Canoeing

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	58.057	4	Colspan = 2	Did not advance
Women
Shahla Behrouzirad	Women's KL3 200m	54.755	4	51.316	3	52.789	7

Powerlifting

See 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

See 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	1	239.2
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	4	163.0	6
Mixed
Sareh Javanmardi	Mixed P4 – 50 m pistol SH1	539	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

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

Summary

Men's tournament

See main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2020 Summer Paralympics – Men's tournament.

Group play--------

Semi final

Final

Taekwondo

See 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 /
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Men
Mahdi Pourrahnama	Men's −75 kg		W 37–21	W 24–6			L 20–26
Asghar Aziziaghdam	Men's +75 kg		W 11–9	W 9–4			W 12–10
Women
Rayehe Shahab	Women's +58 kg	L 9–30	did not advance		W 17–10		L 31–41	5

Wheelchair basketball

See 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.

See also

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: NPC Entries - Team Islamic Republic of Iran . https://web.archive.org/web/20210826214250/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/all-sports/npc-entries-islamic-rep-of-iran.htm . 2021-08-26 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympics . May 2022.
2. Web site: Paralympic Games 2020 Qualification Places. 9 June 2019. ianseo.net.
3. Web site: Archery - Sport & NPC Entries by Event . https://web.archive.org/web/20210830094317/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/archery/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-islamic-rep-of-iran.htm . 2021-08-30 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games . May 2022.
4. Web site: Athletics - Sport & NPC Entries by Event . https://web.archive.org/web/20210830094046/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/athletics/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-islamic-rep-of-iran.htm . 2021-08-30 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games . May 2022.
5. Web site: 2020 Paralympic Games Qualification System - UCI Nations Ranking Allocation. 19 July 2019. uci.org.
6. Web site: Qualification Guide - Appendix 1 UCI Para-cycling Road and Track Combined Nations Ranking. 19 July 2019. uci.org.
7. Web site: 2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide. 17 November 2020. International Paralympic Committee.
8. Web site: Cycling Road - Sport & NPC Entries by Event . https://web.archive.org/web/20210830101124/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/cycling-road/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-islamic-rep-of-iran.htm . 2021-08-30 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games . May 2022.
9. Web site: Cycling Track - Sport & NPC Entries by Event . https://web.archive.org/web/20210830101125/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/cycling-track/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-islamic-rep-of-iran.htm . 2021-08-30 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games . May 2022.
10. Web site: 2020 Summer Paralympics Qualification Guide. 17 November 2020. International Paralympic Committee.
11. Web site: Shooting - Sport & NPC Entries by Event . https://web.archive.org/web/20210830093957/https://olympics.com/tokyo-2020/paralympic-games/en/results/shooting/sport-and-npc-entries-by-event-islamic-rep-of-iran.htm . 2021-08-30 . Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games . May 2022.
12. Web site: Tokyo 2020 Paralympics qualification update. 27 July 2018. World ParaVolley. 16 July 2019. 16 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190716175405/http://www.worldparavolley.org/tokyo-2020-paralympics-qualification-update/.
13. Web site: Iran retain PVAO Men's Championship title. 15 June 2019. WorldParaVolley. 14 July 2019. 14 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190714182452/http://www.worldparavolley.org/iran-retain-pvao-mens-championship-title/.
14. Web site: Iran win Men's Sitting Volleyball World Championships with straight sets victory over Bosnia and Herzegovina. 22 July 2018. Inside the Games. 16 July 2019. 16 July 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190716174007/https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1067833/iran-win-mens-sitting-volleyball-world-championships-with-straight-sets-victory-over-bosnia-and-herzegovina.