Iran competed at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 7 September to 18 September 2016.
Competitors SportMenWomenTotalArchery 4 3 7Athletics 23 3 26Cycling 1 0 1Football 5-a-side 10 0 10Football 7-a-side 12 0 12Judo 3 0 3Paracanoeing 0 1 1Powerlifting 6 0 6Shooting 2 4 6Swimming 1 0 1Volleyball 12 12 24Wheelchair basketball 12 0 12 Total 87 23 110
Medalists
| width="77%" align="right" valign="top" | Medal Name Sport Event Date Gholamreza Rahimi Archery Men's individual recurve open 13 September Zahra Nemati Archery Women's Individual recurve open 15 September Mohammad Khalvandi Athletics Men's Javelin Throw–F57 12 September Majid Farzin Powerlifting Men's 80 kg 12 September Siamand Rahman Powerlifting Men's +107 kg 14 September Sareh Javanmardi Shooting Women's 10m air pistol SH1 9 September Shooting Mixed 50m pistol SH1 14 September Sitting Volleyball team Sitting volleyball Sitting volleyball 18 September Zahra NematiEbrahim Ranjbarkivaj Archery Team recurve open 11 September Saman Pakbaz Athletics Men's Shot Put – F12 8 September Alireza Ghaleh Naseri Athletics Men's Discus Throw – F56 10 September Sajad Mohammadian Athletics Men's Shot Put – F42 12 September Abdollah Heydari Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F57 12 September Sajad Nikparast Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F13 14 September Hamed Amiri Athletics Men's Shot Put – F55 16 September Football 5-a-side team Football 5-a-side Football 5-a-side 17 September Football 7-a-side team Football 7-a-side Football 7-a-side 16 September Ebrahim Ranjbarkivaj Archery Men's individual recurve open 13 September Peyman Nasiri Bazanjani Athletics Men's 1500m T20 13 September Asadollah Azimi Athletics Men's Shot Put – F53 14 September Javad Hardani Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F38 15 September Mohsen Kaedi Athletics Men's Javelin Throw – F34 15 September Javid Ehsani Shakib Athletics Men's Shot Put – F57 17 September Ali Sadeghzadeh Powerlifting Men's –107 kg 14 September
| width="23%" align="left" valign="top" | Medals by sportSportTotalArchery2114Powerlifting2013Shooting2002Athletics16512Sitting volleyball1001Football 5-a-side0101Football 7-a-side0101Total89724
Medals by dateDayDateTotal18 September010129 September1001310 September0101411 September0101512 September2204613 September1023714 September2125815 September1023916 September02021017 September01121118 September1001Total89724
Medals by gender(Comparison graphs)Gender TotalPercentageMale5872083.33%Female300312.50%Mixed01014.17%Total 8 9 7 24100%
The death of Para-cyclist Iranian Para-cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad died following an accident during men's C4/C5 road race at the Rio 2016 Paralympics. He was involved in a serious crash on Saturday (17 September) and sustained severe injuries to his neck. The 48-year-old rider received emergency treatment at the scene before being transported to hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. Following Golbarnezhad's passing, the Iranian flag has been lowered to half-mast in the Paralympic Village. The Paralympic flag will also be flown at half-mast in the Paralympic Village and at the Riocentro venue, where Iran played Bosnia and Herzegovina in the sitting volleyball gold medal match on Sunday (18 September).
Disability classifications
Every participant at the Paralympics has their disability grouped into one of five disability categories; amputation, the condition may be congenital or sustained through injury or illness; cerebral palsy; wheelchair athletes, there is often overlap between this and other categories; visual impairment, including blindness; Les autres, any physical disability that does not fall strictly under one of the other categories, for example dwarfism or multiple sclerosis. Each Paralympic sport then has its own classifications, dependent upon the specific physical demands of competition. Events are given a code, made of numbers and letters, describing the type of event and classification of the athletes competing. Some sports, such as athletics, divide athletes by both the category and severity of their disabilities, other sports, for example swimming, group competitors from different categories together, the only separation being based on the severity of the disability.
Archery
Iran earned a spot in archery at both the 2016 Olympic and Paralympic Games at the 2015 Asian Archery Championships as a result of performance of Zahra Nemati at the event. She also carried the Iranian flag into the Olympic opening ceremony. Should she compete in both, she will be the first archer to do so since Italy's Paola Fantato did this at the 1996 Summer Paralympics. She took up the sport in 2006, two years after a spinal-cord injury that occurred during an accident. Prior to that, she competed in taekwondo where she had a black belt. Six months after taking up the sport, she won the Iranian national championships. She competed at the 2011 Archery World Championships, and set four world records at the Italy hosted event. She will go to Rio as a defending Paralympic gold medalist in the women's individual recurve W1/W2, and bronze medalist in the women's team recurve open. She also won gold at the 2013 World Championships in Bangkok, Thailand. She also won a bronze medal at the same event.
Men
|align=left|Gholamreza Rahimi |align=left rowspan=2|Individual recurve open |624 |5 |align="center"|W 6–2 |align="center"|W 6–0 |align="center"|W 6–2 |align="center"|W 6–4 |align="center"|W 7–3 |align="center" | |- |align=left|Ebrahim Ranjbar |637 |1 |align="center"|W 6–2 |align="center"|W 6–4 |align="center"|W 7–3 |align="center"|L 6–4 |align="center"|W 7–1 | align="center" | |- |align=left|Majid Kakoosh |align=left|Individual compound W1 |628 |7 | |align="center"| W 131–129 |align="center"| L 144–124 |align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance |- |align=left|Hadi Nori |align=left|Individual compound open |685 |3 |align="center"|W 136–126 |align="center"|L 138–134 |align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance
Women
|align=left|Mohadeseh Kohansal |align=left rowspan=2|Individual recurve open |541 |24 |align="center"|W 6–2 |align="center"|L 0–6 |align=center colspan="4" |Did not advance |- |align=left|Zahra Nemati |627 |2 |align="center"|W 6–0 |align="center"|W 6–0 |align="center"|W 6–4 |align="center"|W 6–0 |align="center"|W 6–4 |align="center" | |- |align=left|Somayeh Abbaspour |align=left|Individual compound open |657 |2 |align=center|Bye |align="center"|W 140–129 |align="center"|W 137–136 |align="center"|L 137–129 |align="center"|L 140–138 |4
Mixed AthleteEventRanking RoundRound of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinalsScoreSeedOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreOppositionScoreRankZahra NematiEbrahim RanjbarTeam recurve open12641W 6–0W 5–4W 6–0L 3–5Somayeh AbbaspourHadi NoriTeam compound open13421ByeL 148–153Did not advance
Athletics
The following 24 men and 3 woman will represent Iran at 2016 Summer Paralympics. A total of 27 athletes will compete for Iran at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.
Men
Track Athlete (Guide)EventsHeatFinalTimeRankTimeRankHamid Eslami (Hossein Salehi Manesh)1500m T11Did not advancePeyman Nasiri Bazanjani1500m T20colspan="2" 3:56.24Ahmad Ojaghloo100m T4711.225 Q11.278 Field AthleteEventsResultRankSaman PakbazShot Put – F1215.98Yunes SeifipourShot Put – F328.405Siamak Saleh-FarajzadehShot Put – F3410.656Mohsen HosseinipanahShot Put – F3513.145Mehran Nekouei Majd14.544Sajad MohammadianShot Put – F4214.31Asadollah AzimiShot Put – F538.14Alireza Mokhtari7.87 SB4Jalil BagheriShot Put – F5511.16 SB6Hamed Amiri11.40 WRJavid Ehsani ShakibShot Put – F5714.13 PBMohsen KaediShot Put – F3410.705Javelin Throw – F3433.42 SBSajjad NikparastJavelin Throw – F1362.74 SBJavad HardaniJavelin Throw – F3848.46 PBMohammad Fathi GanjiJavelin Throw – F4654.67 PB4Mohammad KhalvandiJavelin Throw – F5746.12 WRAbdollah Heydari43.77Ali MohammadyariDiscus Throw Throw – F56-Alireza Ghaleh Naseri44.04Ali OlfatniaLong Jump – T375.52 SB9
Women AthleteEventsResultRankBatul JahangiriShot Put – F334.576Hashemieh MottaghianJavelin Throw – F5619.834Maryam SoltaniJavelin Throw – F3415.007
Cycling
With one pathway for qualification being one highest ranked NPCs on the UCI Para-Cycling male and female Nations Ranking Lists on 31 December 2014, Iran qualified for the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, assuming they continued to meet all other eligibility requirements. AthleteEventTimeRankBahman GolbarnezhadMen's road race C4-5DNF-Men's time trial C446:03.6214
5-a-side football
Iran qualified for the Paralympics after finishing first at the 2015 IBSA Blind Football Asian Championships. Iran opened round robin play 5–0 win against Malaysia. Next, they drew 0–0 with Japan. Their third game saw them crush India 10–0. They then drew 0–0 with China. Their last game of group play was a 4–0 win against South Korea. Their win put them second in round robin play. They met China in a single placement final, which they won in a 1–0 penalty shootout. Iran's Ahmadreza Shahhosseini was given the tournament's Golden Boot as the tournament's top scorer. The team was coached by Javad Felfeli with Mohammadreza Shaddelbasir the team's guide.
Semi-final
Gold medal match
7-a-side football Iran qualified for the 2016 Rio Games following the suspension of Russia. The IPC ruled that there could not be a redraw for the groups. This resulted in Iran being put into Group A with the Netherlands, Argentina and the United States.
Iran goes to Rio as reigning 2008 and 2012 Paralympic bronze medalists. They had missed out on qualification for Rio initially because they had visa issues that did not allow them to participate in the IFCPF World Championships, and there were not enough teams to allow for a viable Asian qualifying competition. The IFCPF said in their rationale for picking Iran that it would increase continental inclusion from 2 to 3, and they would be replacing one potential medalist with another potential medalist. Iran goes into the tournament ranked 12th in the world.
Judo
AthleteEventPreliminariesQuarterfinalsSemifinalsRepechageFinalFinal / OppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultOppositionResultRankSeyed Omid Nouri JafariMen's 81 kgW 1113–0001L 0003–0002Did not advanceW 0111–0021L 000–1005Hamed AlizadehMen's 100 kgW 0s1–110L 11s3–0s2Did not advanceL 0s1–0s2Did not advanceHamzeh NadriMen's +100 kgW 0–101L 0–0s1Did not advanceW 0s4–100L 0s2–1005
Paracanoeing
Iran earned a qualifying spot at the 2016 Summer Paralympics in this sport following their performance at the 2015 ICF Canoe Sprint & Paracanoe World Championships in Milan, Italy where the top six finishers in each Paralympic event earned a qualifying spot for their nation. Shahla Behrouzirad earned the spot for Iran after finishing sixth in the women's KL3 event.
Women
AthleteEventHeatsSemi-FinalsFinalTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankShahla BehrouziradWomen's KL358.900556.5805Did not advance
Powerlifting
Siamand Rahman worked on qualifying for the 2016 Games at the 2015 IPC Powerlifting Asian Open Championships. Competing in the men's over 107 kg event, he set a new world record of 295 kg on his way to winning gold.
AthleteEventTotal liftedRankHamzeh MohammadiMen's –65 kg187 kg4Majid FarzinMen's –80 kg240 kg Seyedhamed SolhipouravanjiMen's –88 kgNM-Saman RaziMen's –97 kg221 kg4Ali SadeghzadehMen's –107 kg226 kgSiamand RahmanMen's +107 kg310 kg
Shooting
The first opportunity to qualify for shooting at the Rio Games took place at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Championships in Suhl. Shooters earned spots for their NPC. Iran earned a qualifying spot at this event in the P2 – 10m Air Pistol Women SH1 event as a result of Sareh Javanmardi winning a gold medal.