Iran shooters won the top spot in the 2018 World Shooting Para Sport Championships in Cheongju, South Korea, May 1-12.
The three-woman squad including Sareh Javanmardi, Samira Eram and Khadijeh Rostami took gold in the 10-meter air pistol team category, IRNA reported.
They along with Roqayeh Shojaei and Zahra Gholamzadeh are also participating in the individual section of the games.
Two-time gold winner in the 2016 Rio Paralympics Games and 2012 London Paralympics bronze winner, Sareh Javanmardi set the record of 237.6 points to win the individual gold in 10m air pistol and secure the straight 2020 Tokyo Paralympics quota.
Javanmardi was the first ever Iranian female gold medalist in the Paralympics. During the 2016 Rio Paralympics, she grabbed the gold in two categories of women’s 10m air pistol and mixed 50m pistol.
In the 2012 London Paralympics she won bronze in the 10m air pistol; later in 2014, she was chosen as the best Asian female athlete with impairment by the Asian Paralympics Committee. That honor was the result of two gold medals she won at the 2014 Asian Para Games in Incheon, South Korea.
Majid Fallah-Ardeshir and Mehdi Zamani are Iran’s representatives in the men division. It is the first chance for the two athletes to secure quotas for the Tokyo 2020 Paralympics.
Organized by Cheongju City in association with the Korean Shooting Federation for the Disabled, Cheongju 2018 is the second time the World Championships has been hosted in South Korea. The 2002 edition was held in Seoul.
A total of 200 shooters from 40 countries are competing this year.
