Sareh Javanmardi


Sareh Javanmardi is an Iranian Paralympic shooter from Shiraz, Iran. Also known as Sareh Javanmardidodmani or Sareh Javanmardi Dodmani, she is the first ever female gold medalist from Iran to win in the shooting category of the Paralympics Games.

Career

In 2012 Paralympic Games held in London, she won a bronze medal in P2.
Later in 2014, she was chosen as the best Asian female athlete with impairments by the Asian Paralympic Committee. It was due to the two gold medals she won at the 2014 Asian Para Games held in Incheon, South Korea.
At the 2016 Summer Paralympics on 9 September, she scored 193.4 points to win the gold medal at the Rio de Janeiro in the P2 10m air pistol competition.
According to the Islamic Republic News Agency she won her first medal on Friday. In 2014, she will take part at the 2014 IPC Shooting World Cup which takes place in Szczecin, Poland. There, she will compete against Olivera Nakovska-Bikova of Macedonia.

Awards