According to the IRNA correspondent, on the fifth day of the individual pumice competition, Khodabandeh reached the final among the 9 participants as the second person to compete against the Korean athlete for the gold medal.
This proud athlete of Fasaei equalized with her Korean opponent in the final of this competition by gaining 90.6 points, but since Maryam Khodabandeh’s performance score was higher than Korean Taekwondo, she won the gold medal with the votes of the judges. He won silver and Taekwondo from Turkey also won a bronze medal.
The second gold medal of Khodabandeh, the most honorable
Also, Maryam Khodabandeh went to fight the opponents with Morteza Reza Sefat in the pumice section of the team that was held with the participation of eight teams, and in the end, she won the second gold medal of this period of the competition by gaining 24.7 points.
Khodabandeh is participating in the Olympics for the third time and so far he has succeeded in winning 2 bronze medals in 2013 and 2017 and 2 gold medals in the 2021 Olympics on Zill and is the most honorable Persian athlete in the Olympics.
Athletes from Fars in the Brazilian Olympics
Maryam Khodabandeh in Taekwondo, Zeinab Hassanpour (Karate), Mojdeh Mardani (Karate), Asieh Mardani (Karate Instructor) and Fatemeh Esfandiari are in the shooting range of five women from Fars.
Also in the men’s section, Ali Kahrabaei and Mohammad Shayan in karate and Alireza Salehi in athletics are other athletes sent to the Olympics from Fars.
A 75-member sports caravan of deaf men and women from Iran with the slogan “Success in Silence” has left for the 2021 Brazil Olympics.
The Iranian convoy is present in the fields of shooting, judo, taekwondo, karate, freestyle and western wrestling, athletics, football and beach volleyball.
The 24th edition of the 2021 Summer Olympics 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.
The Iranian convoy in the 23rd Deaflympics, which was held in Turkey in 2017, stood in seventh place with 31 medals, including 5 gold, 9 silver and 17 bronze medals.