Iranian Duo Win Gold, Bronze at 2025 New Delhi
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Ali Baziyar Shoorijeh and Erfan Bondori of Iran won a gold and a bronze medal respectively at the Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships on Saturday.
Baziyar collected Iran’s sixth gold in the championships at the Men's Javelin Throw F54 Final with a throw of 32.24 meters. His countryman Bondori won the bronze medal with a throw of 31.23 meters.
The silver medal went to Russian athlete Ivan Revenko with 31.68 meters.
Ali Asghar Javanmardi at the Men's Discus Throw F11, Amir Hossein Alipour at the Men's Shot Put F11, Elham Salehi at the Women's Javelin Throw F54 and Saeid Afrooz at the Men's Javelin Throw F34, and Hassan Bajoulvand at the Men's Discus Throw F11had previously won five gold medals.
The New Delhi 2025 World Para Athletics Championships competition feature 186 medal events (101 men's, 84 women's and one mixed), 15 more than the last edition of the championships in Japan’s Kobe.
