Paralympic Summer Games Deaths
Fortunately there has only been one death recorded in association with the Paralympics.
Bahman Golbarnezhad, a 48 year-old Iranian cyclist at the 2016 Rio Paralympics, died of cardiac arrest following crash.
Golbarnezhad was competing in the C4 cycling road race, and was involved in a crash on the first section of the Grumari loop, a mountainous stretch of the course. He received treatment at the scene and was in the process of being taken to the athlete hospital when he suffered a cardiac arrest.
Related Pages
- Paralympics Trivia
- Paralympics Firsts
- Summer Olympics Deaths
- Winter Olympics Deaths
- Sports Stadium Disasters
- Fallen Heroes — athletes taken from us before their time though war, accidents or acts of violence.
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