TEHRAN - Iran’s chef de mission for the 2024 Paralympic Games, Mohammad Pooladgar, says that they were capable of achieving much more than their eventual 14th place in the Games.

The Iranian athletes collected eight gold, 10 silver and seven bronze medals in Paris.

In 2020 Tokyo, Iran claimed 12 gold medals, 11 silvers and one bronze, finishing in 13th place.

“We are definitely not satisfied because our athletes should have done better in 2024 Paralympics but the delegation did well overall in the Games,” Pooladgar said.

“Our technical committee almost predicted our athletes’ results but in some sports it didn’t happen. For example, we had predicted to win two gold medals in taekwondo but won one silver and two bronzes,” he added.

“Our performance in Paris was acceptable. If we exclude China, who is not comparable to us and has 85 million people with disabilities, only Japan and Uzbekistan were higher than us among the Asian countries. We are capable of achieving more success in the future,” Pooladgar concluded.