Iran at the 1956 Summer Olympics

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Iran at the Olympic Games

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IOC code  IRI
NOC National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
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At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne/Stockholm
Competitors 17 in 3 sports
Medals
Rank: 14		 Gold
2		 Silver
2		 Bronze
1		 Total
5
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Iran competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

[edit] Silver

  • Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 52 kg
  • Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 57 kg

[edit] Bronze

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's marathon

  • Ali Baghbanbashi - Did not finish

Men's decathlon

  • Najmeddin Farabi - 12th place, 5103 points

[edit] Weightlifting

Men's 56 kg:

Men's 60 kg:

  • Hossein Zarrini - 13th place, 305 kg

Men's 67.5 kg:

  • Henrik Tamraz - 5th place, 365 kg

Men's 75 kg:

  • Ebrahim Peyravi - 7th place, 372.5 kg

Men's 82.5 kg:

  • Mansour Ghaffarzadeh - 4th place, 417.5 kg

Men's 82.5 kg:

  • Mohammad Hassan Rahnavardi - 4th place, 425 kg

Men's +90 kg:

  • Firouz Pojhan - 4th place, 450 kg

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Freestyle

Men's 52 kg:

  • Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour - Silver medal
    1. 1st round - Bye
    2. 2nd round - Defeated Luigi Chinazzo of Italy by points, 1 pen
    3. 3rd round - Defeated Richard Delgado of United States by points, 2 pen
    4. 4th round - Defeated Tadashi Asai of Japan by points, 3 pen
    5. 5th round - Defeated Huseyin Akbas of Turkey by points, 4 pen
    6. 6th round - Lost to Mirian Tsalkalamanidze of Soviet Union by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:

  • Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi - Silver medal
    1. 1st round - Defeated Mikhail Chakhov of Soviet Union by points, 1 pen
    2. 2nd round - Defeated Geoffrey Jameson of Australia by fall, 1 pen
    3. 3rd round - Defeated Tarakeshwar Pandey of India by fall, 1 pen
    4. 4th round - Lost to Mustafa Dağıstanlı of Turkey by points, 4 pen
    5. 5th round - Defeated Lee Sang-Kyoon of South Korea by points, 5 pen

Men's 62 kg:

Men's 67 kg:

  • Imam-Ali Habibi - Gold medal
    1. 1st round - Defeated Olle Anderberg of Sweden by fall, 0 pen
    2. 2nd round - Defeated Gyula Toth of Hungary by points, 1 pen
    3. 3rd round - Defeated Roger Bielle of France by points, 2 pen
    4. 4th round - Defeated Garibaldo Nizzola of Italy by points, 3 pen
    5. 5th round - Defeated Shigeru Kasahara of Japan by points, 4 pen
    6. 6th round - Defeated Alimberg Bestayev of Soviet Union by fall, 4 pen

Men's 73 kg:

  • Nabi Sorouri - 4th place
    1. 1st round - Defeated Devi Singh of India by fall, 0 pen
    2. 2nd round - Lost to William Fischer of United States by points, 3 pen
    3. 3rd round - Defeated Mitiou Petkov of Bulgaria by points, 4 pen
    4. 4th round - Defeated Coenraad de Villiers of South Africa by points, 5 pen, Eliminated

Men's 79 kg:

  • Abbas Zandi - Eliminated
    1. 1st round - Defeated Kazuo Katsuramoto of Japan by points, 1 pen
    2. 2nd round - Bye
    3. 3rd round - Lost to Ismet Atli of Turkey by points, 4 pen
    4. 4th round - Lost to Daniel Hodge of United States by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 87 kg:

  • Gholamreza Takhti - Gold medal
    1. 1st round - Defeated Jacob Louis Theron of South Africa by fall, 0 pen
    2. 2nd round - Defeated Robert Steckle of Canada by fall, 0 pen
    3. 3rd round - Defeated Mitsuhiro Ohira of Japan by fall, 0 pen
    4. 4th round - Defeated Kevin Coote of Australia by fall, 0 pen
    5. 5th round - Defeated Boris Kulayev of Soviet Union by points, 1 pen
    6. 6th round - Bye
    7. 7th round - Defeated Peter Blair of United States by points, 2 pen

Men's +87 kg:

  • Hossein Nouri - Eliminated
    1. 1st round - Lost to Hussein Mehmedov of Bulgaria by points, 3 pen
    2. 2nd round - Defeated John Walter Silva of New Zealand by points, 4 pen
    3. 3rd round - Lost to Hamit Kaplan of Turkey by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

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