Iran at the 2008 Paralympics

[tashakor]

The 2008 Paralympics is starting very soon, here is some pictures of Ahmadinejad meeting with our athletes in China.

http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetai...?NewsID=744647

http://www.mehrnews.com/fa/newsdetai...?NewsID=744656

If Iran wins any medals...or some remarkable things happen, please post them here.

God Bless them...and hopefully they have a great time.

[izadi17]

in the airport i saw the blind olympic team..i recognize the people in the second picture !!

[Ali]

We have like 73 athletes there. hopefully we will win some medals. we have a soccer team too.

[Super Shojaei]

we have many athletes so hopefully one of them will get us a medal.

[Super Shojaei]

when dose our team come out in the opening ceremony?

[Super Shojaei]

Iran will compete at the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China. The country's delegation consists of 73 competitors in nine sports: football 7-a-side, goalball, judo, powerlifting, shooting, table tennis, track and field athletics, volleyball, and wheelchair basketball. Javelin thrower Mohammad Reza Mirzaei will be the team's flag bearer at the opening ceremonies. The delegation left for Beijing on August 29.[1] The women will compete in shooting, table tennis, and track and field athletics.[2]

Athletics
Main article: Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men

Mohsen Kaedi
Ali Elahi
Ali Mohammadyari
Javad Hardani
Mohammad Reza Mirzaei
Mehrdad Karamzadeh
Mehdi Asghari
Mehdi Moradi
Siamak Farajzadeh
Jalal Khakzadieh
Abdolreza Jokar
Jalil Bagheri
Farzad Sepahvand
Women

Fatemeh Montazeri

[edit] Football 7-a-side
Main article: Football 7-a-side at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men

Ardeshir Mahini
Gholamreza Najafi
Habibollah Heidari
Moslem Akbari
Morteza Heidari
Abdolreza Karimizadeh
Rasoul Atash-Afrouz
Bahman Ansari
Esmaeil Malekzadeh
Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour
Hadi Safari
Houshang Khosravani

[edit] Goalball
Main article: Goalball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

[edit] Judo
Main article: Judo at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men

Saeid Rahmati - 60 kg
Reza Golmohammadi - 66 kg
Abbas Mousapour - 73 kg
Amir Hossein Nattaj - 81 kg
Hamzeh Nadri - +100 kg

[edit] Powerlifting
Main article: Powerlifting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men

Morteza Dashti
Gholam Hossein Chaltoukkar
Hamzeh Mohammadi
Hadi Hosseini
Majid Farzin
Ali Sadeghzadeh
Kazem Rajabi

[edit] Sitting volleyball
Main article: Sitting volleyball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men

Jalil Imeri
Mohammad Reza Rahimi
Davoud Alipourian
Sadegh Bigdeli
Issa Zirahi
Mehdi Hamidzadeh
Reza Peydayesh
Mohammad Khaleghi
Ramezan Salehi
Saeid Ebrahimi
Mohammad Hosseinifar
Naser Hassanpour

[edit] Shooting
Main article: Shooting at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men

Bahman Karimi
Ramezan Salehnejad
Women

Nayyereh Akef

[edit] Table tennis
Main article: Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Women

Narges Khazaei
Forough Bakhtiari

[edit] Wheelchair basketball
Main article: Wheelchair basketball at the 2008 Summer Paralympics
Men

Bahman Seifi
Vahid Gholam-Azad
Ebrahim Ahmadi
Alireza Ahmadi
Morteza Gharibloo
Ahmad Daghaghelehpour
Zakaria Hesamizadeh
Hakim Mansouri
Adel Tarafi
Saman Belaghi
Gholamreza Nami
Esmaeil Hosseinpour

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_at...er_Paralympics

we should expect at least 1 medal really.

[Super Shojaei]

last time we kicked ass we finished 23rd overall with 7 golds

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2004_Su...cs_medal_table

[Super Shojaei]

who knows who will be up first today?

[Ali]

IRAN defeated japan sitting volleyballl team in straight sets 3-0.

[Ali]

We are currently versing Canada in Goalball.

and our judo competitors went to the semis.

[Super Shojaei]

IRAN defeated japan sitting volleyballl team in straight sets 3-0.

[SP1006]

Respect for them. Doesnt matter which place they finished.

[babak_australia]

The Flag Ahmadinejad is holding has no Allah, its funny that he would hold that in my opinion.

However good luck to the team, apparently they always do well in the Paralympics.

[Spyder]

God bless them. I wish them well

[Ali]

Guys i will try and keep u updated on iran's progress as much as i can.

- Iran Wheelchair basketball team defeated South Africa 72-63

Here are some pics: