6 September 17, 2016

President Congratulates Persepolis, Esteghlal Draw Iranian Paralympics Medalists Again in Derby RIO DE JANEIRO ( IRNA) at 2016 Rio Paralympics Sareh - President Hassan Rouhani in a Javanmardi, who had won the first A view of Azadi Stadium message on Thursday congratulated gold medal for the Iranian squad Iranian athletes competing in the in the tournament, won her second Rio 2016 on their gold medal Wednesday evening. victories. In the meantime, Iranian President Rouhani praised Siamand Paralympic power-lifter Siamand Rahman and Sareh Javanmardi and Rahman in the 107 plus kilograms other Iranian medalists for their category of Rio 2016 Paralympics prowess, will and fortitude. won gold medal on Wednesday Iranian shooting representative evening. Nemati Earns ’s 7th Gold Medal at Rio 2016 Paralympics RIO DE JANEIRO ( Press competitions at the Sambadrome TV) - Iranian female Paralympic Marquês de Sapucaí in Rio’s TEHRAN (Kayhan International the country like no other. Known the whistles of Alireza Faghani at points, but due to goal difference archer Zahra Nemati has exhibited downtown area of Cidade Nova, Sports Desk) - The Tehran duel locally as the Surkhabi derby, it is the Azadi Stadium ended with a than the tractor is now ranked in an admirable display of talent and triumphed over her Chinese between Persepolis and Esteghlal regarded as one of the biggest in Asia. goalless draw and the teams splited second place. Esteghlal now has 4 and aptitude at the 2016 Summer opponent Wu Chunyan 6-4 (24-27- may be one of multiple derbies in The Eighty-third duel between the the points of the game. points, and is standing in fourteenth Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, 28-27, 22-26, 30-26 and 28-26) in Iran, but it is the one that engrosses teams that started at 5 clocks with With this draw, Perspolis got 12 place. , to stand atop the podium and the final encounter to be awarded raise the Islamic Republic’s total the top honor. Paralympics 2016: Medal Table medal count at the highly prestigious Polish athlete Milena Olszewska Iranian Power Lifter Breaks international sporting event. notched up a narrow 6-5 (27-21, Rank NPC Gold Silver Bronze Total On Thursday, 31-year-old Nemati 21-18, 25-26, 23-27, 26-26 and World Record Thrice 1 CHN 84 66 41 191 – also a gold medalist at the 2012 1-0) win over Lee Hwa Sook, a London Paralympics – vied in representative from South Korea, 2 GBR 50 28 31 109 the women’s individual recurve and got the bronze medal. 3 UKR 35 28 30 93 4 USA 30 33 26 89 Haider Wins First Medal for 5 AUS 14 24 22 60 Pakistan at Rio Paralympic Games 6 GER 12 19 10 41 RIO DE JANEIRO (DAWN) - athlete won bronze medal in the 7 BRA 10 25 18 53 Haider Ali, Pakistan’s only athlete long jump event of the T-37 class by at the Rio Paralympic Games, managing a distance of 6.28 meters. 8 NED 10 15 22 47 has done the country proud by This is the second time that Haider 9 NZL 9 5 5 19 winning its first medal in the long has excelled for his country at the 10 ITA 8 13 10 31 jump competition. The 31-year-old Paralympic Games. Chinese Teenager Xu Wins Iran’s Siamand Rahman waves to the audience before lifting 310 Iran Jumps Two Places at kilograms during the men’s +107kg category at the Paralympic Games in the Riocentro in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil FIFA Rankings 100m Butterfly S9 Gold RIO DE JANEIRO ( Press TV) kilograms to smash his own world RIO DE JANEIRO (Xinhua) -- second faster than Spain’s Sarai TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian This month, the following teams - Iran’s heavyweight powerlifting record of 296 kilograms again, ’s Xu Jialing became one Gascon. national football team (Team Melli) reached their best ever position on the champion has smashed three world and hand Iran their sixth gold of the youngest gold medallists Zsofia Konkoly of Hungary moved up two places in the latest FIFA FIFA World Ranking: Guinea-Bissau records and won the gold medal at medal of the Paralympics Games. of the Rio Paralympics when she claimed bronze in 1:09.21. rankings published on Thursday. (73, up 2), St Kitts and Nevis (77, up won the 100m butterfly S9 final Xu lost her left arm at age six the Rio Paralympics. Rahman, who was representing The Iranian team is still the best 4), Kazakhstan (83, up 13), Comoros In his first attempt in the +107kg Iran for the second time at the here on Thursday. after she was involved in a car Asian football team at 37th place, (152, up 3), and Kosovo (168, up 22). Xu, who turned 14 last month, accident. She also took the bronze category, Siamand Rahman Paralympics, then requested for the followed by Australia at 45th and A notable mention goes to the lifted 270 kilograms and broke weights to be set at staggering 310 finished in one minute 7.90 medal at these Games in the Korea Republic at 47th. four teams breaking into the top 50: seconds, 10 hundredths of a women’s 400m freestyle S9. the Paralympics record at Rio’s kilograms outside the three scoring Argentina continues to top the Scotland (44, up 7), Australia (45, up Riocentro Pavilion 2 on Wednesday. competition lifts, and triumphantly overall list, followed by Belgium, 12), Greece (48, up 4), and Uzbekistan The 28-year-old Iranian then repeated his astonishing success for Germany, Colombia and Brazil. (49, up 6). benched weights of 300 and 305 a fourth time. Zidane’s Sons Free to Iran’s Javanmardi Wins Sweet 16 for Spain and Play Again as CAS 2nd Shooting Gold Medal Argentina RIO DE JANEIRO ( Press TV) - Rio neighborhood of Deodoro. She second half that they took control of a Iranian female sports shooter Sareh racked up 189.5 points to claim the top scrappy, keenly contested encounter, Javanmardi has received a second gold position and finish as champion. but their class eventually shone through medal at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Chinese sports shooter Yang Chao, 37, as they wrapped up progress from the in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. accumulated 186.5 points to clinch the first round of the tournament for the On Wednesday, the 31-year-old silver medal. seventh straight edition. sportswoman participated in P4 mixed Oleksii Denysiuk, a contestant from In the other fixture in this section, Iran 50-meter pistol SH1 competitions at the Ukraine, scooped the bronze with 160.8 got back to winning ways at Morocco’s Olympic Shooting Center in the western points expense, taking their competition record to 15 victories in 30 matches. Argentina, meanwhile, eased past Saeid Mohammadpour, New London Solomon Islands, although their performance was less impressive than 2012 Powerlifting Champion the somewhat flattering scoreline might suggest. Albiceleste winger Cristian Saeid Mohammadpour Borruto was the star of the show with Zinedine Zidane (centre) shared an Insragram image with two of his BOGOTA (FIFA) - Spain and a hat-trick. sons on Monday Argentina got the job done by beating Also in Group E, Kazakhstan not (Euro Sport) - Real Madrid have won a has never overturned a transfer ban Azerbaijan and Solomon Islands only scored their first-ever goal at a small victory in their dispute with FIFA from soccer’s ruling body FIFA on the respectively to book their places in the Futsal World Cup, through Douglas 58 over the illegal signing of under-age signing of minors. Round of 16 at the FIFA Futsal World seconds into their meeting with Costa foreigners after the Court of Arbitration FIFA has not disclosed the names of Cup Colombia 2016. Rica, but they also recorded their first for Sport (CAS) temporarily lifted its the 39 players originally investigated La Roja were made to work hard to win. In the process, they put themselves ban on appeal. but Real director general Jose Angel assert themselves in the first Group F very much in the hunt for a berth in the The decision means eight players Sanchez said they included Zidane’s game of the day. It was not until the last 16. - including French coach Zinedine four sons. Zidane’s sons Theo and Elyaz - can play Theo, 14, and Elyaz, 11, represent for their respective youth teams until Real’s youth teams while Enzo, 21, and LONDON (Dispatches) - Iran’s 94kg event, will pick up the bronze after positive after the International Olympic fourth, Azerbaijan’s Intigam Zairov the appeal decision is made. Luca, 18, play for the club’s reserve side Weightlifter Saeid Mohammadpour is a sixth competitor from the London Committee (IOC) began to retest (originally sixth) and Kazakhstan’s “The Court of Arbitration for Sport Castilla in Spanish football’s third tier. the new London 2012 champion. final was banned. samples from both Beijing and London. Almas Uteshov, who was seventh. has granted the precautionary measures FIFA has reduced the number of Tomasz Zielinski who was sent home Kazakhstani weightlifter Ilya Ilyin Russia’s Aleksandr Ivanov and It all means that Iran’s Saeid that Real Madrid appealed for following players investigated to eight, leaving from Rio last month after failing a drugs was awarded the gold medal in 2012, Anatolie Ciricu of Moldova — who Mohammadpour, who originally the sanction issued by FIFA,” said out Enzo and Luca among others and test, is set to be awarded a bronze medal breaking two world records in the both set personal bests in finishing finished fifth, is the new London 2012 a statement issued by the European Morocco international Achraf Hakimi from London 2012 despite originally process, but in June it was announced second and third in 2012 — have champion while the eighth-placed champions on Friday. who had been prohibited from playing finishing ninth at that Games. that he was one of four weightlifting since tested positive, as have Andery Kim Min-Jae of South Korea has been The CAS, sport’s highest tribunal, for Castilla. Zielinski, competing in the men’s champions from Kazakhstan who tested Demanov (Russia), who was originally promoted to silver.