Iran at the 2012 Summer Paralympics

Iran at the
2012 Summer Paralympics
Iran at the; 2012 Summer Paralympics
IPC code	IRI
NPC	I.R. Iran National Paralympic Committee
Website	www.paralympic.ir
in London
Competitors	79 in 13 sports
Flag bearer	Abdolreza Jokar
Medals; Ranked 11th	Gold 10 Silver 7 Bronze 7 Total 24
Summer Paralympics appearances (overview)
	1988; 1992; 1996; 2000; 2004; 2008; 2012; 2016; 2020; 2024;

Iran competed at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, United Kingdom, from 29 August to 9 September 2012.^[1]

Competitors edit

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	3	3	6
Athletics	14	2	16
Cycling	1		1
Football 5-a-side	10		10
Football 7-a-side	12		12
Goalball	4		4
Judo	6		6
Powerlifting	8		8
Shooting		2	2
Swimming	1		1
Table tennis	1		1
Volleyball	11		11
Wheelchair tennis	1		1
Total	72	7	79

Medalists edit

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Athletics	5	5	3	13
Powerlifting	4	1	1	6
Archery	1	0	1	2
Sitting volleyball	0	1	0	1
Football 7-a-side	0	0	1	1
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Total	10	7	7	24

Medals by date
Day	Date				Total
2	31 August	0	0	1	1
3	1 September	3	0	0	3
4	2 September	0	2	0	2
5	3 September	1	0	0	1
6	4 September	3	2	0	5
7	5 September	1	1	4	6
8	6 September	0	0	1	1
9	7 September	1	1	0	2
10	8 September	1	1	0	2
11	9 September	0	0	1	1
Total		10	7	7	24

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Zahra Nemati	Archery	Women's individual recurve W1/W2	4 September
Gold	Peyman Nasiri	Athletics	Men's 1500 m T20	4 September
Gold	Jalil Bagheri Jeddi	Athletics	Men's shot put F54/55/56	1 September
Gold	Javad Hardani	Athletics	Men's discus throw F37/38	7 September
Gold	Mohsen Kaedi	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F33/34	1 September
Gold	Mohammad Khalvandi	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F57/58	8 September
Gold	Nader Moradi	Powerlifting	Men's 60 kg	1 September
Gold	Ali Hosseini	Powerlifting	Men's 75 kg	3 September
Gold	Majid Farzin	Powerlifting	Men's 82.5 kg	4 September
Gold	Siamand Rahman	Powerlifting	Men's +100 kg	5 September
Silver	Mohsen Kaedi	Athletics	Men's shot put F34	4 September
Silver	Mehrdad Karam Zadeh	Athletics	Men's discus throw F42	2 September
Silver	Sajad Nikparast	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F12/13	5 September
Silver	Kamran Shokrisalari	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F42	7 September
Silver	Abdolreza Jokar	Athletics	Men's javelin throw F52/53	4 September
Silver	Rouhollah Rostami	Powerlifting	Men's 67.5 kg	2 September
Silver	Volleyball team Majid Lashgari Reza Peidayesh Davood Alipourian Ahmad Eiri Naser Hassanpour Sadegh Bigdeli Jalil Eimery (captain) Seyed Saeid Ebrahimi Isa Zirahi Ramezan Salehi Mohammad Khaleghi	Volleyball	Men's volleyball	8 September
Bronze	Razieh Shir Mohammadi Zahra Javanmard Zahra Nemati	Archery	Women's team recurve open	5 September
Bronze	Javad Hardani	Athletics	Men's shot put F37/38	5 September
Bronze	Ali Mohammadyari	Athletics	Men's discus throw F54/55/56	5 September
Bronze	Farzad Sepahvand	Athletics	Men's discus throw F44	6 September
Bronze	Football 7-a-side team Mehran Nikoee Majd Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Morteza Heidari Bahman Ansari Hashem Rastegarimobin Sadegh Hassani Baghi Farzad Mehri Jasem Bakhshi Moslem Akbari (captain) Rasoul Atashafrouz Abdolreza Karimizadeh	Football 7-a-side	Football 7-a-side	9 September
Bronze	Ali Sadeghzadeh	Powerlifting	Men's 100 kg	5 September
Bronze	Sareh Javanmardi	Shooting	Women's 10 m air pistol SH1	31 August

Archery edit

Men


Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Amin Alikhani Nezhad	Individual recurve standing	588	18	Kim (KOR) L 2–6	did not advance
Ebrahim Ranjbar	Individual recurve W1/W2	648	2	Bye	Chopyk (UKR) W 7–1	Shahabipour (IRI) W 7–1	Sanawi (MAS) L 5–6	Tseng (TPE) L 3–7	4
Roham Shahabipour	Individual recurve W1/W2	603	7	Bye	Ozen (TUR) W 6–0	Ranjbar (IRI) L 1–7	did not advance
Amin Alikhani Nezhad Ebrahim Ranjbar Roham Shahabipour	Team recurve open	1839	4	—	Bye	South Korea (KOR) L 192–201	did not advance

Women


Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Opposition score	Rank
Razieh Shir Mohammadi	Individual recurve standing	552	5	Bye	Comte (SUI) L 2–6	did not advance
Zahra Javanmard	Individual recurve standing	481	15	Walmsley (GBR) L 0–6	did not advance
Zahra Nemati	Individual recurve W1/W2	613 PR	1	Bye	Perna (ITA) W 6–0	Girismen (TUR) W 6–0	Floreno (ITA) W 6–0	Mijno (ITA) W 7–3
Razieh Shir Mohammadi Zahra Javanmard Zahra Nemati	Team recurve open	1646	3	—		Czech Republic (CZE) W 190–167	South Korea (KOR) L 186–192	Italy (ITA) W 188–184

Athletics edit

Men

Track events

Athlete	Events	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Peyman Nasiri	1500 m T20	—				3:58.49

Field events

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Salman Abbariki	Shot put F34	NM	16
Mohsen Kaedi	Shot put F34	12.94 m AS
Mohsen Kaedi	Javelin throw F33/34	38.30 m WR
Javad Hardani	Shot put F37/38	15.43 m AS
Javad Hardani	Discus throw F37/38	1024 pts WR
Jalil Bagheri Jeddi	Shot put F54/55/56	988 pts PR
Jalal Khakzadiyeh	Discus throw F32/33/34	936 pts	9
Mehrdad Karam Zadeh	Discus throw F42	44.62 m
Farzad Sepahvand	Discus throw F44	58.39 m
Ali Mohammadyari	Discus throw F54/55/56	978 pts
Sajad Nikparast	Javelin throw F12/13	63.15 m
Seyed Erfan Hosseini	Javelin throw F12/13	57.94 m	4
Kamran Shokrisalari	Javelin throw F42	52.06 m
Abdolreza Jokar	Javelin throw F52/53	920 pts
Mohammad Khalvandi	Javelin throw F57/58	50.98 m WR

Women

Field events

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Hajar Taktaz	Shot put F11/12	970 pts	5
Marziyeh Sedighi	Shot put F54/55/56	837	9

Cycling edit

Road

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Bahman Golbarnezhad	Men's road race C4-5	did not finish
Bahman Golbarnezhad	Men's time trial C4	did not start

Track

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Bahman Golbarnezhad	Men's 1 km time trial C4-5	1:13.799	18

Football 5-a-side edit

The following is the Iran squad in the football 5-a-side tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.^[2]

No.	Pos.	Player	Age	Club
1	GK	Morteza Maboodi Dalivand	32	Gilan
2	DF	Amir Pourrazavi Haftdaran	27	Azarbayejan Sharghi
3	DF	Maghsoud Gholizadeh Abdoljabbar	30	Azarbayejan Sharghi
4	FW	Mohammad Keshtkar	28	Fars
7	FW	Abdolhamid Shalhavizadeh	25	Khoozestan
8	DF	Mohammad Heidari	28	Khoozestan
9	FW	Hossein Rajab Pour	25	Khoozestan
10	FW	Behzad Zadaliasghari Yengejeh	24	Azarbayejan Sharghi
11	FW	Ahmadreza Shah Hosseini Ardekani	22	Fars
12	GK	Meysam Shojaeiyan	23	Fars

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Spain (ESP)	3	1	2	0	3	1	+2	5	Qualified for the medal round
2	Argentina (ARG)	3	1	2	0	2	0	+2	5	Qualified for the medal round
3	Iran (IRI)	3	1	0	2	1	4	−3	3	Qualified for the classification round
4	Great Britain (GBR)	3	0	2	1	1	2	−1	2	Qualified for the classification round

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

31 August 2012

13:30

Iran	0–2	Argentina
	Report	Velo 27', 48'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 1,985

Referee: François Carcouët (France)

2 September 2012

13:30

Spain	2–0	Iran
Martín Gaitán 13', 22'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 1,996

Referee: Lucio Morgado (Brazil)

4 September 2012

15:30

Great Britain	0–1	Iran
	Report	Ardekani 21' (pen.)

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 2,273

Referee: François Carcouët (France)

5th–8th place semi-final

6 September 2012

11:00

Iran	1–0	Turkey
Rajab Pour 19'	Report

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 1,510

Referee: Niels Haupt (Germany)

5th–6th place match

8 September 2012

11:15

Iran	0–0 (a.e.t.)	China
	Report
Penalties
Shalhavizadeh Ardekani Haftdaran	0–1	Zhoubin Yafeng Dongdong

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 1,603

Referee: François Carcouët (France)

Rank: 6th

Football 7-a-side edit

The following is the Iran squad in the football 7-a-side tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.^[3]

No.	Pos.	Player	Age	Club
1	GK	Mehran Nikoee Majd	30	Gilan
2	MF	Hashem Rastegarimobin	27	Zanjan
5	MF	Sadegh Hassani Baghi	28	Gilan
6	MF	Farzad Mehri	27	Zanjan
7	MF	Jasem Bakhshi	25	Gilan
8	DF	Ehsan Gholamhosseinpour Bousheh	23	Fars
9	DF	Morteza Heidari	34	Tehran
10	DF	Bahman Ansari	32	Markazi
11	FW	Rasoul Atashafrouz	30	Gilan
13	MF	Moslem Akbari	27	Gilan
19	FW	Abdolreza Karimizadeh	30	Khoozestan
22	GK	Moslem Khazaeipirsarabi	25	Kermanshah

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Russia (RUS)	3	3	0	19	1	+18	9	Qualified for the medal round
2	Iran (IRI)	3	2	1	13	5	+8	6	Qualified for the medal round
3	Netherlands (NED)	3	1	2	5	13	−8	3	Qualified for the classification round
4	Argentina (ARG)	3	0	3	2	20	−18	0	Qualified for the classification round

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

2012-09-01

11:15

Netherlands	1–4	Iran
Straatman 52'	Report	Mehri 4' Akbari 27' Karimizadeh 30' Ansari 60+6'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 4,405

Referee: Ross Haswell (GBR)

2012-09-03

14:00

Argentina	1–8	Iran
Fernández Romano 47'	Report	Gholamhosseinpour 2', 60+3' Mehri 6', 58' Atashafrouz 13', 14' Bakhshi 18' Heidari 29'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 10,561

Referee: Garry Polkey (GBR)

2012-09-05

9:00

Iran	1–3	Russia
Mehri 36' (pen.)	Report	Kuligin 18' Larionov 37' Ramonov 46'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 4,276

Referee: Keith Stroud (GBR)

Semi-final

2012-09-07

17:30

Ukraine	2–1	Iran
Dotsenko 37' Shkvarlo 57'	Report	Bakhshi 51'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 2,900

Referee: Stephen Conroy (GBR)

Bronze medal match

2012-09-09

13:30

Brazil	0–5	Iran
	Report	Atashafrouz 17', 23' Mehri 20', 60+1' Bakhshi 57'

Riverbank Arena

Attendance: 11,197

Referee: Kevin Wright (GBR)

Rank:

Goalball edit

Men's tournament edit

Squad list	Group stage		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Squad list	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
From: Seyed Mehdi Sayahi Mostafa Shahbazi Hassan Jafari Javad Shirdel	China W 9–5	1	Finland L 1–5	did not advance
	Canada W 9–2
	Belgium L 6–8
	South Korea W 4–3
	Algeria W 4–2

Group B

Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
Iran	5	4	0	1	32	20	+12	12	Quarterfinals
China	5	3	1	1	20	14	+6	10
Belgium	5	3	1	1	19	16	+3	10
Algeria	5	2	0	3	18	17	+1	6
South Korea	5	1	0	4	18	28	−10	3	Eliminated
Canada	5	1	0	4	16	28	−12	3	Eliminated

Source: "London 2012 Paralympic Games - Goalball results" (PDF). Paralympic.org. 2012-10-03. Retrieved 2024-04-27 – via Goalball.sport.

30 August 2012 13:45	China	5 – 9	Iran	Copper Box, London Referees: Launel Scott (CAN), Bülent Kimyon (TUR)
	Yao 3 Chen 2	Report	Sayahi 9

31 August 2012 19:45	Iran	9 – 2	Canada	Copper Box, London Referees: Dina Murdie (GBR), Tony Connolly (USA)
	Jafari 4 Sayahi 3 Shahbazi 1 Shirdel 1	Report	Gaulin 2

1 September 2012 18:30	Belgium	8 – 6	Iran	Copper Box, London Referees: Morten Hammershoi (DEN), Juha Vuokila (FIN)
	de Rick 3 Bihi 3 Vanhove 1 Mapreni 1	Report	Sayahi 3 Jafari 2 Shahbazi 1

2 September 2012 13:45	Iran	4 – 3	South Korea	Copper Box, London Referees: Janne Ahokas (FIN), Dawna Christy (CAN)
	Sayahi 4	Report	Hong SW 2 Kim CH 1

3 September 2012 10:15	Iran	4 – 2	Algeria	Copper Box, London Referees: Dina Murdie (GBR), Tony Connolly (USA)
	Sayahi 2 Jafari 1 Shirdel 1	Report	Mokrane 2

Quarter-final

5 September 2012 21:00	Iran	1 – 5	Finland	Copper Box, London Referees: Morten Hammershoi (DEN), Kimberly Anderson (USA)
	Sayahi 1	Report	Posio 3 Mattila 2

Judo edit

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage First round	Repechage Final	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Saeid Rahmati	Men's 66 kg	Falcon (VEN) L 000H–100	did not advance
Mohammad Ali Shanani	Men's 73 kg	Solovey (UKR) L 000–101	did not advance		Powell (GBR) W 1103–0101	Takahashi (JPN) L 0001–100	did not advance
Seyed Amir Nattaj	Men's 81 kg	Cimciler (TUR) W 020–0001	Effron (ARG) L 0012–0112	did not advance	Bye	Shevchenko (RUS) L 0003–010	did not advance
Hani Asakereh	Men's 90 kg	Bye	Kretsul (RUS) L 0001–100	did not advance	G Tapia (MEX) W 100–000	Dashtseren (MGL) W 100–000	Lencina (ARG) L 0001–100	5
Hamed Alizadeh	Men's 100 kg	Bye	Upmann (GER) W 010–0003	GG Choi (KOR) L 0001–100	Bye		Tenorio (BRA) L 0104–1003	5
Hamzeh Nadri	Men's +100 kg	Bye	Silva (BRA) L 000–0011	did not advance	Papp (HUN) W 001–0002	JM Park (KOR) W 100–0004	Dominguez (CUB) L 0003–0101	5

Powerlifting edit

Athlete	Event	Total lifted	Rank
Amir Jafari	Men's 56 kg	173 kg	6
Nader Moradi	Men's 60 kg	196 kg
Rouhollah Rostami	Men's 67.5 kg	208 kg
Ali Hosseini	Men's 75 kg	225 kg
Majid Farzin	Men's 82.5 kg	237 kg
Seyed Hamed Solhipour	Men's 90 kg	225 kg	4
Ali Sadeghzadeh	Men's 100 kg	235 kg
Siamand Rahman	Men's +100 kg	280 kg PR

Shooting edit

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Sareh Javanmardi	Women's 10 m air pistol SH1	376	3	469.0
Alieh Mahmoudi	Women's 10 m air pistol SH1	374	4	467.1	6

Volleyball edit

Men's tournament edit

Overview

Team	Group stage^[4]		Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Team	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Iran	Rwanda W 3–0	1	Great Britain W 3–0	Russia W 3–0	Bosnia and Herzegovina L 1–3
	China W 3–0
	Brazil W 3–0
	Bosnia and Herzegovina W 3–1

Roster

The following is the Iranian roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2012 Summer Paralympics.^[5]

Head coach: Hadi Rezaei

№	Name	Date of birth	Position	2012 club
2	Majid Lashgarisanami	6 August 1979	UN	Gostareshe Foulad
3	Reza Peidayesh	5 September 1978	WS	Dokhaniyat
4	Davood Alipourian	6 May 1985	SE	Zob Ahan
5	Ahmad Eiri	21 March 1988	M	Gostareshe Foulad
6	Naser Hassanpour Alinazari	30 March 1974	UN	Gonbad
7	Sadegh Bigdeli	26 February 1984	WS	Gostareshe Foulad
8	Jalil Eimery	21 September 1972	SE	Zob Ahan
9	Seyedsaeid Ebrahimibaladezaei	1 July 1979	OS	Zob Ahan
10	Isa Zirahi	4 June 1979	OS	Zob Ahan
11	Ramezan Salehi Hajikolaei	11 March 1979	L	Zob Ahan
12	Mohammad Khaleghi	23 October 1981	SE	Gostareshe Foulad

Group play

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR
1	Iran	4	4	0	8	12	1	12.000	322	207	1.556
2	Bosnia and Herzegovina	4	3	1	7	10	3	3.333	309	240	1.288
3	Brazil	4	2	2	6	6	6	1.000	257	230	1.117
4	China	4	1	3	5	3	9	0.333	243	266	0.914
5	Rwanda	4	0	4	4	0	12	0.000	115	300	0.383

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

30 August 2012 21:00	Iran	3–0	Rwanda	ExCeL London, London Referees: Janko Plešnik (SLO), Dee Wauchope (GBR)
	(25–11, 25–6, 25–8) Report

1 September 2012 14:00	Iran	3–0	China	ExCeL London, London Referees: Dimosthenis Kostopoulos (GRE), Amin Al-Traifi (KSA)
	(25–15, 25–19, 25–12) Report

3 September 2012 14:00	Iran	3–0	Brazil	ExCeL London, London Referees: Amin Al-Traifi (KSA), Mourad El-Baroudy (EGY)
	(25–21, 25–15, 25–17) Report

4 September 2012 16:00	Iran	3–1	Bosnia and Herzegovina	ExCeL London, London Referees: Report
	(22–25, 25–18, 25–18, 25–22) Dariusz Jasinski (POL), Janko Plesnik (SLO)

Quarter-final

5 September 2012 21:20	Great Britain	0–3	Iran	ExCeL London, London Referees: Dimosthenis Kostopoulos (GRE), Ute Fisher (GER)
	(18–25, 13–25, 15–25) Report

Semi-final

6 September 2012 21:00	Russia	0–3	Iran	ExCeL London, London Referees: Benno Meijer (NED), Ronaldo Chaves (BRA)
	(15–25, 18–25, 18–25) Report

Final

8 September 2012 18:00	Bosnia and Herzegovina	3–1	Iran	ExCeL London, London Referees: Anton Probst (GER), Toomas Murulo (EST)
	(19–25, 25–21, 25–22, 25–15) Report

Swimming edit

Men

Athlete	Events	Heats		Final
Athlete	Events	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shahin Izadyar	50 m freestyle S10	25.97	5	did not advance
	100 m freestyle S10	57.91 AS	7	did not advance
	100 m breaststroke SB9	1:12.23	2	1:12.47	8
	200 m individual medley SM10	2:28.51	7	did not advance

Table tennis edit

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries			Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Finals
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hassan Janfeshan	Singles class 2	Kim (KOR) L 0–3	Ruep (AUT) W 3–1	2	did not advance

Wheelchair tennis edit

Men

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Hossein Mamipour	Men's singles	Jaroszewski (POL) L 2–6, 1–6	did not advance

References edit

^ "Iran - 2012 Paralympic News, Athletes, Medals". LOCOG. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.
^ "Men's Football 5-a-side – Team Rosters – Iran". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
^ "Men's Football 7-a-side – Team Rosters – Iran". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
^ "Volleyball - Sitting Competition Schedule Event Details" (PDF). London 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.
^ Men's Sitting Volleyball – Teams – Iran, london2012.com. Retrieved 1 October 2012.

[1] "Iran - 2012 Paralympic News, Athletes, Medals". LOCOG. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved 28 August 2012.

[2] "Men's Football 5-a-side – Team Rosters – Iran". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 2 September 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2012.

[3] "Men's Football 7-a-side – Team Rosters – Iran". London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 28 August 2012. Retrieved 29 August 2012.

[volleyball-4] "Volleyball - Sitting Competition Schedule Event Details" (PDF). London 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 August 2012. Retrieved 21 August 2012.

[5] Men's Sitting Volleyball – Teams – Iran, london2012.com. Retrieved 1 October 2012.

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