Coquitlam’s Ahmad Zeividavi and Team Canada’s goalball team were bounced out of the quarterfinals after falling 5-4 to Lithuania during the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio last Wednesday.
The loss means that Canada will finish no higher than eighth place in the event, behind China and ahead of Algeria. Earlier in the tournament the squad finished fourth in their pool after losing to Brazil 11-3 in the opening round-robin match followed by a 17-13 loss to Algeria and a 6-3 loss to Sweden.
This is the second paralympics for the 31-year-old Zeividavi, who was part of Team Canada’s 10th-place finish in London during the 2012 Paralympics. He was also part of the national team that took bronze during the 2015 Parapan Ams in Toronto.
Meanwhile, Port Coquitlam’s Nathan Stein finished seventh in the 100 m freestyle, posting a time of 54.43 seconds in the finals on Tuesday. During the qualification round, Stein came in second in his grouping, qualifying wtih a time of 54.56 seconds.
He was also part of Team Canada’s men’s 4 x 100 m freestyle relay, which finished seventh with a time of 4:12.60. Ukraine took gold in the event, followed by Brazil with silver and China with bronze.
Three Tri-City athletes were selected to join Team Canada’s 2016 Paralympic team.
Earlier in the Games, PoCo’s Doug Blessin shot his way to a sixth overall showingg in the finals of the mixed 10 m air rifle prone event.
The 43-year-old athlete came in fifth during the qualification round with a score of 634.7, a result that allowed him to move on to the finals. But he came up short in the medal round, finishing with a result of 124.9, good enough for sixth place overall in the competition.
