TEHRAN (Iran News) – Sareh Javanmardi of Iran claimed a silver medal at the Sydney 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships on Thursday. The Iranian shooter came second in the P2 (women’s 10m air pistol SH1) with the score of 233.6 points. Ukraine’s Iryna Liakhu won the gold medal with 235.8 and bronze medal went […]
TEHRAN (Iran News) – Sareh Javanmardi of Iran claimed a silver medal at the Sydney 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships on Thursday.
The Iranian shooter came second in the P2 (women’s 10m air pistol SH1) with the score of 233.6 points.
Ukraine’s Iryna Liakhu won the gold medal with 235.8 and bronze medal went to Aysegul Pehlivanlar from Turkey who scored 214.2 points.
The Sydney 2019 World Shooting Para Sport Championships run until Friday.
The prestigious competition has brought 283 shooters from 55 countries together in Australian beautiful city.
History of Sareh Javanmardi championships
In 2012 Paralympic Games held in London, she won a bronze medal in P2 (10m air pistol SH1).
Later in 2014, she was chosen as the best Asian female athlete with impairments by the Asian Paralympic Committee. It was due to the two gold medals she won at the 2014 Asian Para Games held in Incheon, South Korea.
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics on September 9, she scored 193.4 points to win the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro in the P2 10m air pistol competition.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency she won her first medal on Friday. In 2014, she will take part at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Cup which takes place in Szczecin, Poland. There, she will compete against Olivera Nakovska-Bikova of Macedonia.
- source : tehrantimes, irannews
