Bahman Iranian para-cyclist dies after a crash

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Bahman Golbamezhad 48, an Iranian Para-cyclist has died after a crash during the men’s C4-5 road race at the Rio Olympics. He suffered a cardiac arrest after the incident on a “mountainous stretch” of the circuit.

According to a statement “ The ambulance then diverted to the nearby Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he succumbed to his injured soon after arrival.”

Masoud Ashrafi, the secretary general of Iran’s National Paralympic Committee said “ Golbarnezhad had been cycling for 12 years and he was our best cyclist, he was married and has a wife and one son. He was the kind of man who was a family man. He loved his family.”

 

Golbarnezhad’s death is the first in competition at a summer Olympics or Paralympics since Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen in the 100km team time trial at the 1960 Rome Olympics.