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Iranians clinch 4 more medals at 2017 Summer Deaflympics

Saturday, 22 July 2017 10:07 AM [ Last Update: Saturday, 22 July 2017 12:45 PM ]

Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler Abouzar Rabizadeh Hafshejani (center)

Iranian Paralympian athletes have got four more medals, including one silver, at the 23rd edition of Summer Deaflympics in Turkey.

On Friday, Iranian Greco-Roman wrestler Abouzar Rabizadeh Hafshejani lost to his Russian opponent Eduard Shirazdanov 1-3 in the final bout of the 80-kilogram weight division at Kavak Sports Hall in Turkey’s northern and major Black Sea port city of Samsun, and got the silver medal.

Iranian athlete Akbar Saberi prevailed over his Kyrgyz rival Aram Janikovich Akopian 6-1 in the repêchage round of men’s 98-kilogram weight category, and claimed a bronze medal.

In the third-place bout of 59-kilogram weight class, Iran’s Alireza Daneshvar defeated Panayot Dimitrov from Bulgaria 5-2 and took the bronze.

Separately, Iranian judoka Mehrdad Seidi prevailed over his Brazilian rival Cleiton Batista Silva with an ippon in the bronze medal contest of men’s minus 98-kilogram class.

Earlier on Thursday, Iranian judo practitioner Mehrdad Bodaghi had defeated Rustem Nazmutdinov, a contestant from Russia, with an ippon in the third-place challenge of men’s minus 60-kilogram category, and won a bronze medal.

The 2017 Summer Deaflympics, officially known as the 23rd edition of Summer Deaflympics, opened in Samsun, Turkey, on July 18 and will finish on July 30, 2017. A total of 3,148 athletes from 97 countries are competing in 21 sports at the international multi-sport event.

Dozens of Iranian athletes are in action across 13 sports. They are vying for top honors in athletics, beach volleyball, bowling, football, freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, judo, karate, shooting, swimming, table tennis, taekwondo and volleyball.

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