A new round of national athletics training camp for the athletes with a vision impairment is to start across the country on Friday, 21 April.
Iran NPC, Tehran- According to Iran Sports Federation
for the Blind and Visually Impaired Persons, sixteen round of Para Athletics
camp will run at the different venues across the country.
The camp set to hold from April 21st to
May 18th, and all the sixteen invited athletes will follow their training program
with the national coaches in their hometowns.
Athletes’ list:
Hajar Safarzadeh, Amir Khosravani,
Sajad Nikparast, Ali Shamshiri, Khadijeh Abdi, Zahra Sadat Pouresmaeil, Omid
Zarif, Mahdi Moradi Kouchi, Mahdi Olad, Fatemeh Amirzadegani, Saman Pakbaz, Ali
Pirouj, Amir Hossein Alipour, Hasan Bajoulvand, Vahid Ali Najimi and Mehrdad
Moradi.
Zahra Afsharian (as the Guide Runner)
National coaches’ list:
The camp, which is designed to
provide athletes preparation for Hangzhou Asian Para Games, will be supervised
by head coach Aliasghar Hadizadeh. The national coaches who will assist him in
different cities are as below:
Hormoz Rad Sadeghinia, Darioush
Namavar, Hamid Mazarzei, Zahra Alizadeh, Amir Mohammad Solhmirzaei, Ali Mohebi,
Mohsen Pakbaz, Omid Mohammad Mohammadi, Mostafa Bahrami, Mashalah Taheri and
Mahdi Rahimi.
The Iranian para-athletics squad won 8
gold, 6 silver and 10 bronze medals at the 2018 Asian Para Games.