Iran NPC, Tehran:
Team Iran’s Para table tennis players
collected three medals including, a gold and two bronzes, at the 2024 Open
Competitions in Lagos, Nigeria.
Iran’s Zahra Namazi defeated her Nigerian
rival Temitore Sekinat Idris 3-0 and claimed a gold medal in women's singles classes
7-8 at Lagos Para Table Tennis Open on Saturday, 9 November.
In men’s single class 9, the other Iranian
Para Table Tennis player Mohammaderfan Gholami previously had lost to Nigerian Tajudeen
Agunbiade in semifinals (3-2) and picked a bronze medal.
He also added another bronze medal
along with Naser Dehghanpour in double event of the same class.
The 6th Lagos Valuejet Para Table Tennis Open was held on
Nov. 7-9 at the Molade Okoya-Thomas Hall of Teslim Balogun Stadium, Lagos.
The event brought
participants from Iran, UK, Iraq, Cameroon, Benin Republic, Togo, Côte
d’Ivoire, Uganda, and host Nigeria in the prestigious event.