| Iran at the 2004 Summer Paralympics | |
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| IPC code | IRI |
| NPC | I.R. Iran National Paralympic Committee |
| Website | www |
| in Athens | |
| Competitors | 89 in 10 sports |
| Flag bearer | Enayatollah Bokharaei |
| Medals Ranked 23rd |
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| Summer Paralympics appearances (overview) | |
Athletes from the Islamic Republic of Iran competed at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens, Greece.
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | 3 | 3 | |
| Athletics | 25 | 3 | 28 |
| Cycling | 1 | 1 | |
| Football 7-a-side | 11 | 11 | |
| Judo | 4 | 4 | |
| Powerlifting | 8 | 8 | |
| Shooting | 6 | 3 | 9 |
| Table tennis | 3 | 3 | |
| Volleyball | 10 | 10 | |
| Wheelchair basketball | 12 | 12 | |
| Total | 83 | 6 | 89 |
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Athletics | 4 | 2 | 9 | 15 |
| Judo | 1 | 1 | ||
| Powerlifting | 3 | 3 | 6 | |
| Volleyball | 1 | 1 | ||
| Total | 7 | 3 | 13 | 23 |
Men's recurve
| Athlete | Event | Ranking round | 1/16 eliminations | 1/8 eliminations | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | ||||||||
| Ghasem Javani | Individual standing | 532 | 20 Q |  Wickramasinghe (SRI)L 127–140 | Did not advance | 21 | |||
| Heshmatollah Kazemi | Individual standing | 575 | 15 Q |  Lazo (SVK)W137–127 |  Onodera (JPN)W142–141 |  An (KOR)L 76–102 | Did not advance | 8 | |
| Majid Kehtari | Individual W2 | 572 | 21 Q |  Gregory (GBR)L 135–141 | Did not advance | 27 | |||
| Ghasem Javani Heshmatollah Kazemi Majid Kehtari | Team open | 1679 | 12 Q |  Poland L 210–221 | Did not advance | 10 | |||
Men
| Athlete | Event | Result | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yaghoub Pagheh | Triple jump F46 | 13.46 | 5 | |
| Mohsen Amoo-Aghaei | Shot put F33/34 | 9.30 | 969 |  |
| Siamak Saleh-Farajzadeh | Shot put F33/34 | 8.76 | 829 | 9 |
| Discus throw F33/34 | 39.12 WR | 995 |  | |
| Abbas Mohsenizadeh | Shot put F37 | 12.59 | 4 | |
| Javad Hardani | Shot put F38 | 12.12 | 4 | |
| Discus throw F38 | 43.27 |  | ||
| Asghar Zareeinejad | Shot put F40 | 9.52 | | |
| Mehrdad Karamzadeh | Shot put F42 | 12.90 | | |
| Farhad Raiga | Shot put F42 | 12.37 | 5 | |
| Javad Mousavi | Shot put F44/46 | 13.52 | 930 | 6 |
| Alireza Yamousa | Shot put F53 | 6.83 | 7 | |
| Jalil Bagheri Jeddi | Shot put F56 | 10.35 | 7 | |
| Discus throw F55 | 34.64 | | ||
| Mohammad Hossein Firouzi | Discus throw F53 | 17.33 | 8 | |
| Abdolreza Jokar | Discus throw F53 | 19.13 | 5 | |
| Javelin throw F52/53 | 19.77 | 1032 | | |
| Asadollah Azimi | Discus throw F54 | 24.15 | 5 | |
| Ali Naderi | Discus throw F55 | 27.62 | 9 | |
| Javelin throw F55/56 | 35.30 WR | 1208 | | |
| Mokhtar Nourafshan | Discus throw F55 | 31.45 | | |
| Javelin throw F55/56 | Did not start | |||
| Mohammad Dabbaghzadeh | Discus throw F56 | 34.99 | 4 | |
| Mohammad Sadeghi Mehryar | Discus throw F56 | 37.52 WR | | |
| Alireza Kamalifar | Discus throw F58 | 52.35 | | |
| Kazem Moradi | Javelin throw F11 | 33.33 | 8 | |
| Erfan Hosseini | Javelin throw F12 | 50.76 | 4 | |
| Vahab Saalabi | Javelin throw F42 | 46.91 | | |
| Avaz Azmoudeh | Javelin throw F54 | 26.16 | | |
| Hassan Houshyar | Javelin throw F55/56 | 27.67 | 947 | 7 |
| Mohammad Reza Mirzaei | Javelin throw F57 | 40.71 PR | | |
Women
| Athlete | Event | Result | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fatemeh Montazeri | Shot put F56–58 | 8.36 | 913 | 4 |
| Discus throw F56–58 | No mark | |||
| Azam Khodayari | Discus throw F56–58 | 24.86 | 1050 | |
| Zahra Taghibeigloo | Javelin throw F56–58 | 24.02 | 961 | 5 |
Men's road
| Athlete | Event | Score | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mahmoud Meili | Bicycle road race / time trial LC 3 | 26 | 13 |
Men's track
| Athlete | Event | Real time | Result | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mahmoud Meili | Bicycle 1 km time trial LC1–4 | 1:33.726 | 1:21.509 | 33 |
Men
| Squad list | Preliminaries | Semifinal | Final | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pool A | Rank | ||||
| Nasser Hosseinifar Houshang Khosravani Gholamreza Najafi Hadi Safari Javad Mansour-Fallah Naghi Kamani Morteza Heidari Abdolreza Karimzadeh Majid Mashhadi Ardeshir Mahini Mohammad Reza Khedri Coach: Alireza Raadi |  Argentina D 2–2 | 3 | Did not advance | 5th place match Netherlands W3–0 | 5 |
 Ukraine L 2–6 | |||||
 Ireland W7–2 | |||||
Men
| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage final | Final | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saeid Rahmati | 60 kg |  Tsang (HKG)W1021–0000 | Díaz (ARG) W0210–0000 | Hirose (JPN) L 0000–1000 | 3rd place match Biro (HUN)L 0011–0012 | 5 | |
| Hani Asakereh | 73 kg | Ramírez (ARG) W1001–0010 |  Moore (USA)L 0000–0001 | Bye | Repechage Atnabayev (RUS)W1000–0000 | 3rd place match Krieger (GER)W0210–0000 | |
| Amir Mirhassan Nattaj | 90 kg | Miyauchi (JPN) L 0022–0200 | Did not advance | 11 | |||
| Reza Arshad | 100 kg |  Men (CHN)L 0001–0110 | Did not advance |  Moreno (ESP)W1000–0000 | Shneyderman (RUS) L 0001–0201 | Did not advance | 7 |
Men
| Athlete | Event | Result | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Morteza Dashti | 48 kg | 167.5 | |
| Gholam Hossein Chaltoukkar | 52 kg | 165.0 | |
| Ali Hosseini | 60 kg | DOP | |
| Hamzeh Mohammadi | 67.5 kg | 200.0 | |
| Reza Boroumand | 75 kg | 195.0 | |
| Saeid Bafandeh | 82.5 kg | No mark | |
| Kazem Rajabi | 100 kg | 242.5 WR | |
| Habibollah Mousavi | +100 kg | 250.0 WR | |
Men
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | Score | Total | Rank | ||
| Jamal Asadi | 10 m air pistol SH1 | 554 | 14 | Did not advance | ||
| Ramezan Salehnejad | 10 m air rifle standing SH1 | 583 | 10 | Did not advance | ||
Women
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | Score | Total | Rank | ||
| Nayyereh Akef | 10 m air pistol SH1 | 362 | 6 Q | 81.8 | 443.8 | 8 |
| Sedigheh Barmaki | 10 m air rifle standing SH1 | 387 | 4 Q | 99.9 | 486.9 | 5 |
| Mahnaz Marzabadi | 10 m air rifle standing SH1 | 374 | 15 | Did not advance | ||
Mixed
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Rank | Score | Total | Rank | ||
| Nayyereh Akef | 50 m free pistol SH1 | 506 | 19 | Did not advance | ||
| Jamal Asadi | 50 m free pistol SH1 | 521 | 9 | Did not advance | ||
| Hassan Akbari | 10 m air rifle prone SH1 | 597 | 14 | Did not advance | ||
| 50 m free rifle prone SH1 | 581 | 15 | Did not advance | |||
| Enayatollah Bokharaei | 10 m air rifle prone SH1 | 596 | 22 | Did not advance | ||
| 50 m free rifle prone SH1 | 581 | 15 | Did not advance | |||
| Akbar Alipour | 10 m air rifle prone SH2 | 597 | 12 | Did not advance | ||
| Ayatollah Heidari | 10 m air rifle prone SH2 | 597 | 12 | Did not advance | ||
Men
| Athlete | Event | Preliminaries | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Groups | Rank | |||||||
| Aghil Alimardani | Singles 2 |  Hajek (AUT)L 1–3 | Group A 4 | Did not advance | 14 | |||
 Kurkinen (FIN)L 0–3 | ||||||||
 Boury (FRA)L 0–3 | ||||||||
| Abbas Alimardani | Singles 9 |  Cieslar (CZE)L 0–3 | Group E 3 | Did not advance | 13 | |||
 Gubica (CRO)W3–1 | ||||||||
| Last (NED) L 0–3 | ||||||||
| Behnam Rahbari | Singles 9 | Leibovitz (USA) L 0–3 | Group D 3 | Did not advance | 14 | |||
| Rakić (CRO) W3–2 | ||||||||
| Tomioka (JPN) L 0–3 | ||||||||
| Abbas Alimardani Behnam Rahbari | Team 9 |  Chinese Taipei L 0–3 | Group B 4 | Did not advance | 7 | |||
| Croatia L 1–3 | ||||||||
| Netherlands L 1–3 | ||||||||
Men's sitting
| Squad list | Preliminaries | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pool A | Rank | |||||
| Davoud Alipourian Sadegh Bigdeli Saeid Ebrahimi Jalil Imeri Ali Golkar Mehdi Hamidzadeh Nasser Hassanpour Mohammad Reza Rahimi Ramezan Salehi Issa Zirahi Coach: Hadi Rezaei | Japan W3–0 25–6, 25–13, 25–10 | 1 Q |  Greece W3–0 25–10, 25–7, 25–11 |  Egypt W3–0 25–18, 25–19, 25–22 |  Bosnia and Herzegovina L 2–3 23–25, 25–20, 25–20, 25–27, 10–15 | |
| Germany W3–0 25–20, 25–23, 25–18 | ||||||
| Finland W3–0 25–12, 25–17, 25–17 | ||||||
Men
| Squad list | Preliminaries | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group B | Rank | |||||
| Majid Mokhtari Ahmad Daghaghelehpour Alireza Ahmadi Morteza Gharibloo Adel Torfi Zakaria Hesamizadeh Ebrahim Taghiloo Alireza Danesh Mohammad Reza Karimi Gholamreza Nami Bahman Seifi Abolfazl Mousavi Coach: Abdolghafour Kamrava | Netherlands L 51–83 | 5 | Did not advance | 9th place match Brazil W67–63 | 9 | |
| Germany L 53–67 | ||||||
| Japan L 57–79 | ||||||
| Greece W81–33 | ||||||
| United States L 50–73 | ||||||
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