TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran continued to dominate in males’s sitting volleyball, beating Kazakhstan 3-0 (25-14, 25-16, 25-18) within the closing. The group, coached by three-time Paralympian Hadi Rezaei, was unbeaten in all 5 of their matches in Hangzhou.
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Since the boys’s sitting volleyball occasion was launched on the Paralympic Games at Arnhem 1980, Iran have topped the rostrum seven occasions, together with at the latest Tokyo 2020 Games.
“Being a champion is sweet. This win is even sweeter for us because of the new members who have joined our team,” captain Davoud Alipourian mentioned.
In the ladies’s occasion, Tokyo 2020 Paralympic gold medallists China took the gold medal by beating Iran within the closing. Japan took bronze.
The Hangzhou 2022 Asian Para Games closed on October 28, 2023, with a spectacular ceremony. The Games, which featured greater than 3,000 athletes from the area, noticed numerous athletic feats and sporting historical past made within the japanese Chinese metropolis.
Host China placed on an distinctive present in entrance of a house crowd and completed atop the general medals desk with 214 gold, 167 silver and 140 bronze medals. Iran completed second with 44 gold, 46 silver and 41 bronze medals, and Japan was third with 42 gold, 49 silver and 59 bronze medals.