Iran Sitting Volleyball Renews Rivalry with Bosnia at Paralympic Games
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Iran and Bosnia & Herzegovina have faced off in the last five men's sitting volleyball at the Paralympics and come as the favorites to play the final in Tokyo.
With an overall score of 3-2 and pumped with the Rio 2016 title, the Iranian squad is ready to conquer another gold medal in the 2020 Games, International Paralympic Committee (IPC) reported.
And one of their star players is Morteza Mehrzad, the tallest athlete at the Paralympic Games and the joint second tallest man in the world, with a height of 2,46m. Even seated, he can spike the ball reaching 2,30m and overshadows all the other players. He scored 28 points in the gold medal game in Rio against the Bosnians.
Besides the win in Rio, Iran claimed the title at the Sydney 2000 and Beijing 2008 games, while Bosnia & Herzegovina prevailed in the Athens 2004 and London 2012 editions. The Iranian team is the World No.1 and is the biggest winner in Paralympic Games history, with three golds and two silver medals.
Competition goes from August 27th to September 5th, the last day of the Games, at Hall A of the Makuhari Messe convention center.
