Mohitizadeh explained that her shoes had been banned from use in the Nagoya competition five months earlier, but she had not known about it. The Iranian women’s athletics national team member also said she could have competed without shoes.
Mohitizadeh after being disqualified in Nagoya: I didn’t know my shoes were banned
Iranian women’s athletics national team member Mohitizadeh said after being disqualified in Nagoya that she had not known her shoes were banned—a ban that, she said, had been in effect for five months.

