Posts Tagged ‘paralympic’

Tokyo Paralympic 2020: Iranian shot putter Mokhtari takes silver

TOKYO – Iran’s Alireza Mokhtari Hemami claimed a silver medal at the men’s shot put F-53 at the 2020 Paralympic Games on Sunday. He won the silver medal with a throw of 8.48 meters. Gold medal went to Elvin Astanov from Azerbaijan who threw 8.77 meters and also broke the Paralympics record by five centimeters. […]

Greek American Swimmer Anastasia Pagonis Wins Gold at Paralympic Games

Anastasia Pagonis celebrates her gold medal at the Tokyo Paralympic Games on Thursday. Credit: Instagram/Anastasia Pagonis Greek American swimmer Anastasia Pagonis, who is blind, won the US’ first gold in the Tokyo Paralympic Games on Thursday. Pagonis made her Paralympic debut winning gold in the women’s 400-meter freestyle S11 with a new world record of […]

Fireworks mark start of Tokyo2020 Paralympic Games

Fireworks light up the sky above Tokyo’s National Stadium as the postponed Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games kick off, with people gathering outside the stadium, hoping to taste the atmosphere despite being locked out. Japanese Paralympic athlete Tomoki Tagawa, bronze medallist in the 4x100m relay in Rio, lights the Paralympic cauldron on the Yume-no-Ohashi Bridge, following […]

Gas refinery triples output in 3 years

  TEHRAN, June 15 (Shana) – Bidboland Gas Refinery has increased its processing capacity by three times since 2013, the refinery’s managing director said. Ali Mohammad Pourreza told Shana: “Despite international restrictions in the refinery’s development, we could raise its refining capacity by 300% and besides consuming the regional gas outage, take in 3 bcm […]

VA Paralympic Program Office Launches Website for Disabled Veterans

Website Encourages Sports Participation by Disabled Veterans   WASHINGTON – The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has launched its Paralympic Program website as part of VA’s ongoing commitment to support the rehabilitation and recovery of disabled Veterans through participation in adaptive sports. “Adaptive sports participation among disabled Veterans has many proven benefits such as increased […]

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