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The first women’s synchronizing swimming team will be formed after Kermanshah’s

......Heretofore the ignorance of the authorities has been the main cause for lack of women’s athletic success in Iran and the same goes for lack of medals and high-leveled world titles in various athletic fields in women’s sport. If the athletic federations within the country start to eliminate gender discrimination against women in their policies like federations such as taekwondo, chess, boating and track & fields did and if they give the same respect to women’s athlete as they do to men’s athletes the day of women’s success will not be far away from us. Little by little Iranian sportswomen start their participation in international fields and after that step-by-step women’s sport will be come more experienced than before. The facts that women form our country are going to participate in the Asian games and in Olympics in the coming year are small evidences of what can be gained in future.

For Iran’s flag to be raised in athletic fields by its women we should put together our assets and work on what we lack from equipments, facilities, skilled coaches to more organized preparatory camps. Now we all know that the government and the Athletic and Physical Education Organization are trying very hard on new facilities for women’s sports. Before the main obstacle in women’s sports was the problem of Hijab and the lack Islamic athletic outfits, but today this problem is being solved by Iran’s National Olympic committee; They are trying to design a better and more practical Islamic athletic outfits.

Of course, athletic equipments and better facilities, on their own are not going to bring any success to women’s sport. Athletic & physical education organization needs to work on all sports federations and in other provinces besides Tehran to attract new sportswomen; they should encourage the sport committees in smaller cities to introduce women athletes to the capital. It is only with the efforts of all these organizations that we can expect a glorious future for Iran women’s sport.

..... In the second day Iran women’s team ranked 7th in air-Rifle 10 m with the total points of 1152. In rifle 25m Maryam Sultani became 34th with 538 points and Nasin Hassanpour became 35th with 538 points.