An Iranian Para-cyclist has kicked the bucket after an accident amid the men's C4-5 street race at the Rio Paralympics.
The International Paralympic Committee said Bahman Golbarnezhad, 48, endured heart failure after the episode on a "sloping stretch" of circuit.
"The emergency vehicle then occupied to the adjacent Unimed Rio Hospital in Barra where he passed away not long after entry," an announcement included.
Golbarnezhad additionally contended at the London Paralympics in 2012.
An examination concerning the conditions of the mishap has been dispatched.
"We're hoping to accumulate however much data as we can and as fast as could reasonably be expected - it ought to take a matter of days," said Piers Jones, sports chief of cycling's overseeing body UCI.
The Iranian banner has been brought down to half-pole in the Paralympic Village and a time of quiet will be seen amid Sunday's end function.
Masoud Ashrafi, the secretary general of Iran's National Paralympic Committee, said it had asked for the collection of Golbarnezhad be traveled to Iran on Sunday. The Committee additionally requested a full report of the occurrence from the IPC.
Ashrafi included: "He had been cycling for a long time and he was our best cyclist. He was hitched and has a spouse and one child.
"He was the sort of man who was a family man. He adored his family."
Golbarnezhad's passing is the first in rivalry at a mid year Olympics or Paralympics since Danish cyclist Knud Enemark Jensen in the 100km group time trial at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
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Saturday's race started at Pontal and incorporated the Grumari circuit utilized as a part of the Rio Olympics street races.
The Vista Chinesa circuit, which incorporated a deceptive plunge where Annemiek van Vleuten of the Netherlands smashed and maintained blackout amid the Olympics, was not part of the Paralympic course.
As per the IPC, Golbarnezhad was included in an accident at around 10:35 neighborhood time on the principal segment of the Grumari circle, a rugged stretch of the course, on a bended plunge.
He got treatment at the scene and was being taken to the competitor clinic when he endured heart failure.
IPC president Sir Philip Craven said: "This is genuinely sad news and the contemplations and sympathies of the entire Paralympic development are with Bahman's family, companions, and partners and in addition the entire of the National Paralympic Committee of Iran.
"The Paralympic family is joined in melancholy at this appalling disaster, which throws a shadow over what have been awesome Paralympic Games here in Rio."
The race was Golbarnezhad's second at the Rio Paralympics, after he completed fourteenth in the C4 time-trial race on Wednesday.
Golbarnezhad, from the city of Shiraz in southern Iran, additionally took an interest in the London 2012 Paralympics, having taken up the game in 2002.
He contended in occasions for competitors with lower appendage debilitations or removals.
Tributes paid to 'commendable sportsman'
Iranian Paralympic Committee: "He was a commendable Paralympic sportsman who, with affection and vitality, attempted his best to advance the name of Iran and to make every one of us pleased and toward the end he gave his life for this.
"All individuals from the Iranian social and games camp here express sympathies to his family and the Iranian country. The name of Bahman Golbarnezhad will be engraved in the glad history of Iranian Paralympics."
Carlos Nuzman, president of Rio 2016: "This is extremely pitiful news for game and for the Paralympic development. Our hearts and supplications are with Bahman's family, his colleagues and every one of the general population of Iran."
Brian Cookson, president of the UCI, cycling's overseeing body: "I am crushed to find out about the demise of Iranian rider Bahman Golbarnezhad. Our contemplations are with his family and companions, and the NPC of Iran to whom we offer our most true sympathies."
ParalympicsGB: "We are crushed by the news of Bahman Golbarnezhad's passing. Our musings are with our companions and partners from NPC Iran."
Joined States Olympic Team: "Our musings are with the companions, family and colleagues of Team Iran's moving cyclist Bahman Golbarnezhad."
'I was sat inverse him in the pits toward the beginning of today'
Woman Sarah Story, Britain's most adorned female Paralympian, additionally paid tribute to Golbarnezhad in a meeting with BBC Sport.
"I'm completely crushed to know about a partner who hasn't made it home from the Games," said Story, who had prior won Britain's 60th gold decoration in Rio.
"Everybody hopes to get back home from a Games and it's no genuine sympathy that he passed on accomplishing something he cherished.
"It's only an unpleasant thing. It couldn't be any more regrettable. There are no words that can improve it feel.
"When you lose somebody you don't know however they are in the same world... I was sat inverse him in the pits today. I know who he is however I've never addressed him. Regardless it hits you super hard."