2024 Summer Olympics & Paralympics Thread

[PrinceAli]

Saeid Afrooz about to compete in Javelin. Gold medal favorite as he’s the world record (2023) and Paralympic record (2021) holder

[diz]

Sitting volleyball in SF against Egypt on Sept 5th.

other SF is Bosnia and Germany. We beat Germany in group stage and beat Bosnia in the past

[PSGman#19]

Athletics : Hajar Safarzadeh finished 1st of heat2, qualified for semi final and broke her personnal record : 56,34s (400m)

Congratulations to her she won a silver medal above ukrainian that was better than her and broke her record, personnal best : 55s35

[diz]

Para Medal ranking update: Iran ranked # 18 in total medals (11) and # 22 by Gold (2)

[PrinceAli]

Iran wins the Gold and Silver in Shot put

[PrinceAli]

Alipour and Olad both competing in shot put now. Alipour is gold medal favorite and just hit his personal best on his 2nd attempt, practically guaranteeing the gold. Olad is a contender for Silver and currently sits in 2nd place after the second attempt

[PSGman#19]

Athletics : Hajar Safarzadeh finished 1st of heat2, qualified for semi final and broke her personnal record : 56,34s (400m)

[diz]

Para Medal ranking so far: Iran ranked # 18 in total medals (8) and # 26 by Gold (1)

[PSGman#19]

Another silver in athletics! Shot put.

Impressive win by our volleyball neshat team against Brazil. Loss against usa in goalball but we qualify for the next round

[PSGman#19]

We have two more silver and bronze. We finished 4th in javelin throw.

Why are we better in paralympics than in Olympics?

Btw Uzbekistan is impressive

[PSGman#19]

First gold medal in shooting by Sara Javanmardi.

Iran is ranked 18th in the table medal

[PSGman#19]

Parastoo habibi get the silver in athletics, she got the bronze yesterday but the gold medalist got disqualified.

Zaker (shot put) finished 4th yesterday but got the silver after silver and bronze medalists got disqualified.

Iran has 3 silver so far. Congrats to them and to all para athletes

[PSGman#19]

One of our swimmer qualified for the final of 100m breakstoke (SB9). Final tonight at 19h15 paris time. Our other swimmer is eliminated.

He finished last in the final, 1min 12s.
After 50m he was among the 4-6 but the last 50m were too difficult for Sina

[PSGman#19]

French media made several articles about the 2nd tallest man of the world :

https://www.lefigaro.fr/sports/jeux-olympiques/jeux-paralympiques-ce-geant-iranien-de-2-46-m-qui-ecrase-le-volleyball-assis-20240830

https://www.francetvinfo.fr/jeux-paralympiques/volleyball/volley-assis-aux-paralympiques-2024-qui-est-morteza-mehrzad-le-geant-iranien-de-2-46-metres_6752062.html

[PSGman#19]

One of our swimmer qualified for the final of 100m breakstoke (SB9). Final tonight at 19h15 paris time. Our other swimmer is eliminated.