Iraq at the 2006 Asian Games

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Iraq (IRQ)

Despite going through a civil war, Iraq is currently participating in the 2006 Asian Games held in Doha,Qatar.

The country is represented by 85 athletes participating in 17 sports, including football, cue sports, and weightlifting. Iraq earned its first Asian games medal in 20 years. Its last medals at the Asian Games were in 1986 at Seoul, South Korea, where it won five silver and two bronze medals.

1 Medal Tally
2 Participation details

[edit] Medal Tally

	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Iraq	-	1	1	2

[edit] Participation details

[edit] Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 2006 Asian Games

Five boxers represented Iraq in this edition of the Asiad. Three of the five athletes made it to the quarterfinals but none succeeded in pushing through the semifinals, leaving Iraq ranked 14th in boxing.

[edit] Entry list

Featherweight - MAHDI Suraka
Flyweight - MUTUSHR Majeed
Light Flyweight - NAJAH Ali
Light Welterweight - ZUHIR Jabar
Heavyweight - ALI Salman

[edit] Standing

Rank		Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
15	Iraq	0	0	0	0

[edit] Results

Venue: ASPIRE Hall 5

Zuhir Jabar

Weight division	Corner-Name (NOC)	Winner	Points	Time/Decision
Qualification bouts December 2, 2006
Featherweight	RED MAHDI Suraka (IRQ) BLUE SAJID Muhamad (PAK)	RED	+27:27	PTS¹
Preliminary bouts December 3, 2006
Flyweight	BLUE MUTUSHR Majeed (IRQ) RED SUSA Katsuaki (JPN)	RED	4:24	RSCOS-R3
Featherweight	BLUE MAHDI Suraka (IRQ) RED MARCIAL Anthony (PHI)	RED	4:24	RSCOS-R2
December 4, 2006
Light Flyweight	RED NAJAH Ali (IRQ) BLUE JIGJID Otgonbayar (MGL)	RED	33:8	PTS
December 5, 2006
Light Welterweight	BLUE ZUHIR Jabar (IRQ) RED AMINI Mohammad Naim (AFG)	BLUE	34:13	PTS
Quarterfinals December 7, 2006
Light Welterweight	RED ZUHIR Jabar (IRQ) BLUE SHIN Myung Hoon (KOR)	BLUE	10:29	PTS
December 8, 2006
Light Flyweight	BLUE NAJAH Ali (IRQ) RED PANNON Suban (THA)	RED	21:30	PTS
Heavyweight	BLUE ALI Salman (IRQ) RED GOTFRID Dmitriy (KAZ)	RED	2:22	RSCOS-R2

Legend:
PTS - Points, Referee Stop Contest, RSCOS - Referee Stop Contest Outscored, R - Round
Note 1: The winner was based on the points scored on the third round

[edit] Football

Main article: football at the 2006 Asian Games

[edit] Round One

[edit] Group B

Team	Pts	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD
Iraq	7	3	2	1	0	8	0	+8
Syria	5	3	1	2	0	4	1	+3
Singapore	2	3	0	2	1	1	3	−2
Indonesia	1	3	0	1	2	2	11	−9

November 18, 2006 18:00
	Indonesia	0–6	Iraq	Al-Ahly Stadium Attendance: 1300 Referee: Yang Zhiqiang (China)
			Muhamed 18' Mohammed 24' Abd Alla 36', 63' Alwan 82' Rehema 89'

November 21, 2006 18:00
	Iraq	2–0	Singapore	Al-Ahly Stadium Attendance: 300 Referee: Abdullah Balideh (Qatar)
	Abd Alla 5' Mahmoud 7'

November 24, 2006 18:00
	Iraq	0–0	Syria	Al-Ahly Stadium Attendance: 2200 Referee: Krishnan Ramachandran (Malaysia)

[edit] Round Two

[edit] Group E

Team	Pts	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD
China PR	9	3	3	0	6	2	+4
Iraq	6	3	2	1	6	1	+5
Oman	3	3	1	2	4	5	−1
Malaysia	0	3	0	3	2	10	−8

November 29, 2006 19:45
	China PR	1–0	Iraq	Grand Hamad Stadium Attendance: 615 Referee: Abdulrahman Abdou (Qatar)
	Zhou Haibin 7'

December 3, 2006 19:45
	Oman	0–2	Iraq	Grand Hamad Stadium Referee: Ajja Gowder (India)
			Rehema 30' Khashen 47'+	Grand Hamad Stadium Referee: Ajja Gowder (India)

December 6, 2006 19:45
	Malaysia	0–4	Iraq	Grand Hamad Stadium Referee: Naser Alghafary (Jordan)
			Rehema 14' Mahmoud 54', 55' Abd Alla 65'	Grand Hamad Stadium Referee: Naser Alghafary (Jordan)

[edit] Quarterfinal

December 9, 2006 16:00
	Uzbekistan	1–2	Iraq	Al-Gharrafa Stadium Referee: Krishnan Ramachandran (Malaysia)
	Geyhrikh 46'+		Muhamed 10' Alwan 95'

[edit] Semi finals

December 12, 2006 16:00
	Iraq	1–0	Korea Republic	Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium Referee: Ali Albadwawi (UAE)
	Mujbel 24'			Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium Referee: Ali Albadwawi (UAE)