Siamand Rahman

Siamand Rahman was an Iranian Paralympic powerlifter, born on 21 March 1988 and died on 1 March 2020 of cardiac arrest. He won gold medals at the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London, the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio and the 2010 Asian Para Games in Guangzhou. Despite disabilities affecting both legs from polio he was described as the world strongest Paralympian. He began in Oshnavieh, Iran, in 2008 with his coach Ali Asghar, took silver at the 2010 IPC Powerlifting World Championships in Kuala Lumpur, and held the IPC world record and the Paralympic championship record in the +107 kg category with a 310 kilogram bench press. After the 2016 Paralympics he was named Best Male at the Paralympic Sport Awards.