Iran awarded 6 more medals in 2017 Summer Deaflympics

Iranian audibly-challenged sportsmen and women continue to bring honor to their country through laudable performances at the 23rd edition of Summer Deaflympics in Turkey, and received six more medals to boost the Islamic Republic’s medal count to 20 at the international multi-sport event.

On Tuesday, Iran’s freestyle wrestler Keyvan Rostamabadi downed his Kyrgyz opponent Aibek Ryspekov 10-0 by technical fall in the first round of the 57-kilogram weight category.

He overcame Egor Skryabin, a contestant from Russia, 14-8 in his second bout, before defeating Armenia’s Sargis Sargsyans 13-4 in the semi-finals.

Rostamabadi triumphed over his Mongolian rival Erkhembayar Namdagdorj 16-15 in the title bout, and won the gold medal.

In the 65-kilogram division, Hossein Nouridashlejeh struck another gold medal for Iran after he overpowered his Mongolian opponent Chinzorig Dorjdagva 10-0 by technical fall in the final challenge.

Furthermore, Iranian sprinter Hashem Yadegari clocked 10.97 seconds in the men’s 100-meter final and landed in the second place.

Dmytro Vyshynskyi from Ukraine won the gold medal, having set the time of 10.96 seconds.

American sprint athlete Nicholas Jones registered 11.02 seconds and rounded out the podium, taking the bronze.

Separately, Iranian karate practitioner Sara Adria clinched the silver medal in the women’s minus 68-kigram kumite class.

Bita Javaheri participated in the women’s over 68-kigram kumite contests, and bagged the bronze.

In the men’s over 84-kilogram kumite division, Hossein Tabartehfarahani could not prevail over Russian representative Sergey Mikhaylovich Tetyushkin in the final competition, and received the silver 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.

Russia is on the top of the medal count table with 123 medals (56 gold, 38 silvers and 29 bronzes).

Ukraine has claimed the second spot with 60 medals (14 gold, 20 silvers, 26 bronzes), while South Korea is on the third with a total of 26 medals (9 gold, 9 silvers and 8 bronzes).

China, Turkey, Venezuela, Belarus, Japan, the Islamic Republic of Iran and Kenya have earned the 4th to 10th places respectively.

Iran has collected three gold, five silver and a dozen bronze medals.

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