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<\/a><\/p>\nIn Rio, the 28-year-old proved again that nothing can stop him in front of a noisy crowd that had gathered to witness the historic moment and never stopped chanting \u201cIran, Iran\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel very happy and proud for having broken the 300kg barrier and for being the strongest Paralympian in the world,\u201d said Rahman afterwards. \u201cI want to be an inspiration for all people with impairment who stay at home and don\u2019t lead an active life, and especially for the youth.”<\/p>\n
Egypt\u2019s Amr Mosaad claimed silver thanks to his 235kg lift in the last round, whilst Jordania\u2019s Jamil Elshebli (234kg) sealed bronze.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Iran\u2019s Siamand Rahman wrote his name into the history books after doing what no man had ever done before \u2013 he cleared the bar at 310kg in the men\u2019s over 107kg, setting a new world record and claiming his second consecutive Paralympic gold. Rahman won gold at London 2012 with a 280kg lift. According to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[10],"tags":[281,181,280],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iranthisway.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}