Neutral Paralympic Athlete Igor Baskakov won the silver medal with 13.62 meters.

The bronze medal went to Olad, throwing 13.28 meters.

Held in East Asia for the first time and a crucial qualifier for the Paris 2024 Paralympic Games, the Kobe 2024 Para Athletics World Championships attracted over 1,000 athletes from 100 countries and regions to compete in 168 events.

He started the campaign with a 15-7 win over Miklos Pech from Hungary. Pakdaman beat Russian Dmitriy Danilenko 15-13 and defeated his compatriot Motaba Abedini 15-7 in his third match.

Pakdaman beat Hungarian Andras Szatmari 15-11 but failed to advance to the final match after losing to world No.1 Bongil Gu from South Korea.

Gu won the gold medal after beating Germany’s Matyas Szabo 15-10 in the final match.

Marco Octavio’s men, who were defeated by Russia 4-3 in group stage, beat the powerhouse team 4-2 in the third-place play-off.

Title-holder Brazil beat Portugal 2-0 to win the title for the second time in a row and the third time overall.

Bokinha and Filipe Silva scored for the Brazilian team.

Saturday results

Mexico 0-3 Paraguay (Seventh-place play-off)

Egypt 1-2 UAE (Fifth-place play-off)

Russia 2-4 Iran (Third-place play-off)

Portugal 0-2 Brazil (Final)

Standings
1st Brazil; 2nd Portugal; 3rd Iran; 4th Russia; 5th UAE; 6th Egypt; 7th Paraguay; 8th Mexico

Individual Awards

MVP: Rodrigo Soares da Costa (BRA)

Best Goalkeeper: Mao (BRA)

Top Scorer: Jordan Santos (POR) (Eight goals)

In the men’s under 58kg competition, Ashourzadeh and Spaniard Jesus Tortosa Cabrera rounded out the podium by sharing the bronze medals.

South Korean Tae-Hun Kim sealed his country’s second title by overcoming Carlos Navarro of Mexico in the gold medal encounter.

The WTF World Taekwondo Grand Prix was introduced by the World Taekwondo Federation in 2013 to provide a homogeneous system for qualification to the Olympic taekwondo competitions with four competitions per year in each event.

It was Iran’s first-ever medal on world’s stage.

Iran had five players that scored in double figures led by Amir Ghafour, who finished with 24 points. Seyed Mohammed Mousavi Eraghi and Mohammadjavad Manavinezhad notched 20 and 19 points, then Milad Ebadipour and Saman Faezi added 12 points each.

France also had five double-digit scorers, led by Trevor Clevenot and Stephen Boyer, who made 25 and 21 points, respectively.

Iran’s third participation resulted to their best ever finish at the World Grand Champions Cup, after finishing fifth in 2009 and fourth in 2013.

Iran also recorded four victories in a single edition for the first time.

Team Melli defeated Italy (3-2), USA (3-2), (Japan (3-1) and France (3-2) and lost to Brazil 3-0 in the competition.

Brazil won the title after defeating Japan 3-0 and Italy finished in second place.

Mehdizadeh defeated Vladimir Kalashnikov from Russia 8-0 in the Male Kumite -60 kg event in the bronze medal match and finished in third place.

Ahmadi also won the bronze medal in the -67kg after beating Thomas Jordan from England 6-0.

Iran took part in the competition in Germany with eight men and women karate practitioners.

The competition has reportedly brought a total of 1,384 male and female karate practitioners from 87 countries together.