Siamand Rahman


Siamand Rahman was a Kurdish-Iranian Paralympic powerlifter. He won gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio and the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou. He is the current IPC Powerlifting World Record holder in the +107 kg category with a bench press and also holds the junior world record with and the Paralympic Championship Record with. Siamand died on 1 March 2020 due to cardiac arrest.

Powerlifting [2017 [World Para Powerlifting Championships|career]]

Rahman began his career in Oshnavieh, Iran, supported by his family and coach Ali Asghar in 2008. He appeared on world stage for the first time at the 2010 IPC Powerlifting World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, where he competed in men’s +100 kg category and bench pressed to win the silver medal, losing only to teammate Karem Rajabi Golojeh. He set a new IPC Powerlifting World Record in the +100 kg category on his fourth lift with a bench press, but unfortunately it did not count toward his medal performance.
Months later, Rahman won the gold medal at the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou, China and broke the IPF Senior World Record again in the +100 kg category with a lift of on December 18, despite still being eligible for the junior category.
He broke his own world record once more, lifting at a competition in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates on December 4, 2011.
The 24-year-old Rahman won gold at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, breaking the Paralympic championship record of that was previously held by Iranian teammate Golojeh with his first lift of and broke it again with his second attempt of. Although he failed lifting on his third attempt due to uneven lockout, Rahman claimed he has hit that mark in training many times and hoped to continue breaking his own records during the next Paralympic cycle. With his successful lift of Rahman proved to be the strongest man in Paralympic history - he was 38 kg beyond Faris Al-Ajeeli, who claimed the silver medal by lifting.
Despite his disability and very young age Rahman was also relatively close to breaking the open all-time raw world record of by Kirill Sarychev and had expressed goals of bench pressing in excess of and even becoming the first man to bench press in competition. Rahman is the first Paralympic lifter who has bench pressed.
Following the 2016 Paralympics, Rahman was named Best Male at the Paralympic Sport Awards.

Personal records

Powerlifting competition records:
done in official powerlifting meets
Powerlifting gym records :
done in the gym