According to IRNA from the Deaf Sports Federation, our country’s deaf men team committee consisting of Alireza Kishani, Hossein Tabarteh Farahani, Ebrahim Pourkashani, Kamran Rezaei, Nejad and Milad Sadeghzadeh first competed against the Ukrainian team and with a 3-0 defeat against this opponent, a chance to win a medal. They lost gold.
In the next match, the Deaf Team Committee won the bronze medal of the 24th 2021 Summer Olympics in the next match with a 3-0 victory over the Chinese team.
The 2021 Olympic Games for the Deaf, with the participation of more than 4,000 athletes from 80 countries, will start on May 4, hosted by Casillas de Sol of Brazil, and will continue until May 15.
Iran participated in the competition with a convoy of 75 athletes to compete in eight sports: football, judo, karate, archery, beach volleyball, athletics, taekwondo, freestyle and western wrestling.