Ahmad Ojaghlou grabs third gold at IPC Athletics Asia-Oceania Championships

Sport360 staff 15:16 13/03/2016
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  • Hat-trick: Iran’s Ahmad Ojaghlou (r).

    The 28-year-old Ojaghlou (50.09s) looked in terrific form over the course of the Championships and gave it his all once again as India’s Sandeep Singh (50.67s) tried hard to catch the Iranian before he crossed the line.

    The win meant a third gold medal for Ojaghlou to add to his 100m and 200m T47 wins from earlier in the week – and he was delighted.

    “I am so happy I won three gold medals. I am having the best time,” he said. “My year of hard work has paid off. I did that for my country, it was my duty. We all did our best to have the Iranian flag raised many times here.”

    There were a further four gold medals for Iran Saturday at Dubai’s Police Officer’s Club stadium:

    Arash Khosravi notched up his second gold of the Championships with a spectacular finish in the men’s 200m T11. The 22-year-old was pushed hard all the way but just managed to pull clear of his rivals with less than 10m to go, stopping the clock in 24.64s. “I am happy to have two golds now. I worked hard for this event and I am working very hard to get to Brazil,” he said.

    Ali Elahi (T12) won the men’s 1,500m T13 in 4:20.36, while out in the field Alireza Hemami Mokhtari (F53) won the men’s discus throw F51-53. Mahdi Asghari (T42) made it a total of 16 golds in the field for Iran over the six days of competition as he won the shot put F42/44 with 11.60m (642 points).

    Elsewhere a fourth round throw of 57.69m (898 points) proved enough for China’s reigning Paralympic champion and world record holder Pengkai Zhu (F12) to take the men’s javelin F11-13 title.

    Iran topped the medals table with 23 gold, 10 silver and seven bronze. China finished runners up with 16 gold, nine silver and five bronze. India were third, Japan fourth and the UAE took fifth.

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