Summer Paralympics 2008 / Participant (Iran)

IRI

5	6th	3

The Iran joined 75 athletes at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in China's Beijing in part.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the athlete Mohammed Reza Mirzaei Jaberi . The most successful participant of the team was the athlete Javad Hardani with a gold and a bronze medal.

Participants by sport

Football (teams of 7)

Men 7-man team (bronze )
Muslim Akbari Bahman Ansari Rasoul Atashafrouz Ehsan Gholam Hosseinpour Habibollah Heidari More Morteza Heidari Abdolreza Karimzadeh Ardeshir Mahini Esmaeil Malekzadeh Nash G. Najafitovahkhoshgeh Hadi Safari

Goalball

Men
Rahmatollah Hosseini Behzad Jahangiri Javad Jalali Mohsen Jalilvand Seyed Mehdi Sayahi Mohammad Soranji

Judo

Men

• Reza Golmohammadi Andarian
• Seyed Amir Mirhassan
• Hamzeh Nadri
• Mousa Pourabbas
• Saeed Rahmati , 1 × (class up to 60 kg)

athletics

Women

• Fatemeh Montazeri Ghahjaverestani

Men

• Mahdi Asghari
• Jalil Bagherijedi
• Ali Elahi
• Ali Ghardooni
• Javad Hardani , 1 × (discus throwing, class F37 / 38), 1 × (javelin throwing, class F37 / 38)
• Abdolreza Jokar , 1 × (javelin, class F53 / 54)
• Mohsen Kaeidi
• Mehrdad Karam Zadeh , 1 × (discus throwing, class F42)
• Jalal Khakzadiyeh
• Mohammad Reza Mirzaei Jaberi , 1 × (javelin throwing, class F57 / 58)
• Ali Mohammad Yari , 1 × (discus throwing, class F55 / 56)
• Mehdi Moradi
• Siamak Saleh Farajzadeh
• Farzad Sepahvand
• Mohammad Vahdani

Powerlifting (bench press)

Men

• Saeid Bafandeh Sedaghati
• Gholamhossein Chaltoukkar
• Morteza Dashti
• Majid Farzin , 1 × (class up to 75 kg)
• Ali Hosseini , 1 × (class up to 67.5 kg)
• Hamzeh Mohammadi , 1 × (class up to 60 kg)
• Kazem Rajabi Golojeh , 1 × (class over 100 kg)
• Ali Sadeghzadeh Salmani , 1 × (class up to 100 kg)

Wheelchair basketball

Men
Alireza Ahmadi Ebrahim Ahmadi Saman Bolaghinalou Ahmad Daghaghelepour Morteza Gharibloo Vahid Gholam Azad Zakaria Hesamy Zadeh Esmaeel Hosseinpour Hakim Mansouri Gholamreza Nami Bahman Siefi Adel Torfi Meneshidi

shoot

Women

• Nayyereh Akef

Men

• Bahman Karimi
• Seyedramzan Salehnejad Amrei

Sitting volleyball

Men (gold )
Davood Alipourian Sadegh Bigdeli S. Ebrahimibaladezei Jalil Eimery Mahdi Hamid Zageh Naser Hassanpour Seyed M. Hosseini Far Mohammad Khaleghi Reza Peidayesh Mohammad Resa Rahimi Ramzan Salehi Hajikolaei Isa Zirahi

Table tennis

Women

• Forough Bakhtiary
• Narges Khazaei

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Summer Paralympic Participant List ( Memento from March 16, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Query at paralympic.org (as of September 28, 2008)
2. ↑ Paralympic.org, September 28, 2008, list of standard bearers ( memento of March 26, 2009 in the Internet Archive )