Eshrat Kordestani


Eshrat Kordestani is an Iranian Paralympian in Sitting volleyball. She originally competed in volleyball before she lost her foot in an anti-personnel mine accident in 2002. The Iranian women's sitting volleyball team won silver at the 2014 Incheon, when she was captain. The team also qualified to compete at the 2016 Summer Paralympics for the first time. She was the captain of the Iranian women's sitting volleyball team and also the flag-bearer for Iran in Rio 2016.

Personal life

Kordestani has been war wounded and lost her right foot in Shalamcheh in 2002 when she was 19 years old, hitting an Anti-personnel mine as a leftover from the Iran-Iraq war. She then started sitting volleyball after being paralyzed, following her volleyball career.

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