Asian Para Games 2018

MHSN · October 11, 2018

in Iran. they usually care about Para sports or at least they pretend to care. so the media usually cover such events like this . but since the official website sucks big time they lost the count of number of medals Iran have won. the official website sometimes is very slow in updating the results.

this is interesting that the TV coverage isn't that bad (I mean comparing to what you expect) I saw Iranian channels showing Powerlifting, sitting volleyball. wheelchair basketball. swimming and athletics. but the TV graphics almost doesn't exist ! in some sports they just show the result. and in some sports they just don't show anything ! sometimes they just show the big scoreboard in the stadium to see who is who.

we were always bad in swimming at any level. but here an Iranian swimmer already won 5 gold medals and he is looking for 2 more. now I see how it feels to win easy medals just by one "very good" athlete. which is not fair. in some sports you have to work hard to win just one medal (even if you are the best of the best) while in swimming just one athlete can win more gold than half of the countries in the Games !

Griff88 · October 11, 2018

1 hour ago, thiago_simoes said:

It's so nice to see our Lusophone irmãos (brothers) doing well!

Timor Leste is the only nation not to have earned a medal at one of the events organized by the Olympic Council of Asia (even has 2 bronze medals -- Asian Marial Arts Games and Asian Martial Arts and Indoor Games -- and has one (Asian Beach Games). Finally has a continental medal now.

And if Wikipedia is to be trusted, and won their first medals ever at the Asian Para Games.

Indeed.. Finally my life is complete

Griff88 · October 11, 2018

3 minutes ago, MHSN said:

this is interesting that the TV coverage isn't that bad (I mean comparing to what you expect) I saw Iranian channels showing Powerlifting, sitting volleyball. wheelchair basketball. swimming and athletics. but the TV graphics almost doesn't exist ! in some sports they just show the result. and in some sports they just don't show anything ! sometimes they just show the big scoreboard in the stadium to see who is who.

Well.. this time they use local host broadcasters, so they use a national (yes, not international) standard. :facepalm:

They thought they can cover events like this.. They did not know it is being streamed at the Paralympic Channel and the whole world can watch it

MHSN · October 13, 2018

At the end of the Games we had 33 countries on the medal table (including COR)

for Iran that was the best Games ever, 3rd place in medal table (Iran was 4th in 2010 and 2014) only 2 gold medals behind Korea in 2nd place. and Iran won gold medal for men in all 3 team sports (Goalball, Basketball and Volleyball) I could barely follow the Games but only watched the wheelchair basketball final today morning which was quite a match. Iran by a last seconds basket 68-66.

one thing that makes APG/Paralympics less enjoyable is the number of events in athletics and swimming. even though this team we had huge number of events in badminton and chess as well ! I wonder how come they had 19 events in badminton ! :yikes:

for example Iran won 51 gold medals here but more than half of them, 27 in athletics !! 6 in swimming (all of them by one swimmer Shahin Izadyar), 4 in Chess, 4 in powerlifting, 3 in shooting, 2 in judo. 2 in archery plus 3 team sports. personally I value much more medals in shooting, Judo, archery and team sports.

uk12points · October 14, 2018

On 13/10/2018 at 17:20, MHSN said:

At the end of the Games we had 33 countries on the medal table (including COR)

for Iran that was the best Games ever, 3rd place in medal table (Iran was 4th in 2010 and 2014) only 2 gold medals behind Korea in 2nd place. and Iran won gold medal for men in all 3 team sports (Goalball, Basketball and Volleyball) I could barely follow the Games but only watched the wheelchair basketball final today morning which was quite a match. Iran by a last seconds basket 68-66.

one thing that makes APG/Paralympics less enjoyable is the number of events in athletics and swimming. even though this team we had huge number of events in badminton and chess as well ! I wonder how come they had 19 events in badminton !

for example Iran won 51 gold medals here but more than half of them, 27 in athletics !! 6 in swimming (all of them by one swimmer Shahin Izadyar), 4 in Chess, 4 in powerlifting, 3 in shooting, 2 in judo. 2 in archery plus 3 team sports. personally I value much more medals in shooting, Judo, archery and team sports.

There will be 14 Badminton events at the 2020 Paralympics, all they did here was just add some extra doubles events and split some combined classifications. But I agree with you about the number of athletics and swimming events, they shoud reduce the number of events per classification. For example the S3 classification doesn't need a 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle event on the program, just 2 would be sufficient.

uk12points · October 14, 2018

ASIAN PARA GAMES 2018 MEDAL COUNT

Rank	Country	G	S	B	Total
1	China	172	88	59	319
2	South Korea	53	45	46	144
3	Iran	51	42	43	136
4	Japan	45	70	83	198
5	Indonesia	37	47	51	135
6	Uzbekistan	35	24	18	77
7	Thailand	23	33	50	106
8	Malaysia	17	26	25	68
9	India	15	24	33	72
10	Hong Kong	11	16	21	48
11	Philippines	10	8	11	29
12	Vietnam	8	8	24	40
13	Kazakhstan	5	15	13	33
14	Sri Lanka	4	6	4	14
15	Iraq	3	6	11	20
16	Singapore	3	2	5	10
17	Chinese Taipei	2	9	14	25
18	United Arab Emirates	2	6	3	11
19	Saudi Arabia	2	3	3	8
20	Timor Leste	2	0	1	3
21	Pakistan	2	0	1	3
22	Kuwait	1	3	4	8
23	Oman	1	3	1	5
24	Jordan	1	2	0	3
25	Mongolia	1	1	3	5
26	Laos	1	0	0	1
27	Myanmar	0	4	2	6
28	Bahrain	0	2	1	3
29	Macau	0	2	1	3
30	Syria	0	1	4	5
31	Unified Korea	0	1	1	2
32	Qatar	0	1	0	1
33	Turkmenistan	0	0	1	1