Iran at the 1968 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 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City
Competitors 14 in 3 sports
Medals
Rank: 19		 Gold
2		 Silver
1		 Bronze
2		 Total
5
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Iran competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, Mexico.

Contents

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

[edit] Silver

[edit] Bronze

  • Aboutaleb Talebi - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 57 kg
  • Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 63 kg

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's discus throw:

  • Jalal Keshmiri - 20th place
    1. Qualification - 53.96 m, Did not advance

Men's shot put:

  • Jalal Keshmiri - Eliminated
    1. Qualification - Did not start

[edit] Weightlifting

Men's 56 kg:

Men's 60 kg:

  • Nasrollah Dehnavi - 6th place, 365 kg

Men's 67.5 kg:

  • Parviz Jalayer - Silver medal, 422.5 kg

Men's 75 kg:

  • Daniel Gorgiz - No mark

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Freestyle

Men's 52 kg:

  • Mohammad Ghorbani - 7th place
    1. Round 1 - Defeated José Defran of Dominican Republic by fall, 0 pen
    2. Round 2 - Defeated César Solari of Ecuador by fall, 0 pen
    3. Round 3 - Defeated Petros Triantafyllidis of Greece by fall, 0 pen
    4. Round 4 - Lost to Richard Sanders of United States by fall, 4 pen
    5. Round 5 - Lost to Shigeo Nakata of Japan by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:

  • Aboutaleb Talebi - Bronze medal
    1. Round 1 - Defeated Javier Raxon of Guatemala by superiority, 0.5 pen
    2. Round 2 - Defeated Jan Ahmad of Afghanistan by points, 1.5 pen
    3. Round 3 - Defeated Mohammad Sardar of Pakistan by points, 2.5 pen
    4. Round 4 - Bye
    5. Round 5 - Defeated Donald Behm of United States by points, 3.5 pen
    6. Round 6 - Drew with Ali Aliev of Soviet Union, 5.5 pen
    7. Final round - Drew with Yojiro Uetake of Japan, 7.5 pen

Men's 63 kg:

  • Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi - Bronze medal
    1. Round 1 - Defeated Bobby Douglas of United States by points, 1 pen
    2. Round 2 - Defeated Hans-Jürgen Luczak of East Germany by superiority, 1.5 pen
    3. Round 3 - Defeated Josef Engel of Czechoslovakia by fall, 1.5 pen
    4. Round 4 - Defeated Elkan Tedeev of Soviet Union by points, 2.5 pen
    5. Round 5 - Defeated Nikolaos Karypidis of Greece by fall, 2.5 pen
    6. Final round 1 - Drew with Enio Todorov of Bulgaria, 2 pen
    7. Final round 2 - Lost to Masaaki Kaneko of Japan by points, 5 pen

Men's 70 kg:

  • Abdolllah Movahed - Gold medal
    1. Round 1 - Defeated Gordon Garvie of Canada by superiority, 0.5 pen
    2. Round 2 - Defeated Carlos Vario of Argentina by superiority, 1 pen
    3. Round 3 - Defeated Guy Marchand of France by superiority, 1.5 pen
    4. Round 4 - Defeated Klaus Rost of West Germany by superiority, 2 pen
    5. Round 5 - Defeated Udey Chand of India by points, 3 pen
    6. Round 6 - Defeated Danzandarjaa Sereeter of Mongolia by points, 4 pen
    7. Final round - Defeated Enio Valtchev of Bulgaria by points, 5 pen

Men's 78 kg:

  • Ali-Mohammad Momeni - 4th place
    1. Round 1 - Defeated Kayum Ayub of Afghanistan by superiority, 0.5 pen
    2. Round 1 - Defeated Karoly Bajko of Hungary by points, 1.5 pen
    3. Round 3 - Lost to Mahmut Atalay of Turkey by points, 4.5 pen
    4. Round 4 - Defeated Martin Heinze of West Germany by points, 5.5 pen
    5. Round 5 - Defeated Anguele Sotirov of Bulgaria by points, 6.5 pen, Eliminated

Men's 87 kg:

  • Mansour Mehdizadeh - Eliminated
    1. Round 1 - Lost to Francisc Ballo of Romania, Disqualified, 4 pen
    2. Round 2 - Did not show, Eliminated

Men's 97 kg:

  • Eskandar Filabi - Eliminated
    1. Round 1 - Defeated Victor Vernik of Argentina by superiority, 0.5 pen
    2. Round 2 - Lost to Peter Jutzeler of Switzerland by points, 3.5 pen
    3. Round 3 - Lost to Shota Lomidze of Soviet Union by points, 6.5 pen, Eliminated

Men's +97 kg:

  • Abolfazl Anvari - 6th place
    1. Round 1 - Defeated Laszlo Nyers of Hungary by points, 1 pen
    2. Round 2 - Defeated Arne Robertsson of Sweden by points, 2 pen
    3. Round 3 - Lost to Larry Kristoff of United States by points, 5 pen
    4. Round 4 - Lost to Osman Douraliev of Bulgaria by fall, 9 pen, Eliminated

[edit] Greco-Roman

Men's 63 kg:

  • Hossein Moarreb - Eliminated
    1. Round 1 - Defeated Yehya Hassanein of United Arab Republic by fall, 0 pen
    2. Round 2 - Lost to Hizir Alakoc of Turkey by points, 3 pen
    3. Round 3 - Lost to Dimitar Gualintchev of Bulgaria by fall, 7 pen, Eliminated

[edit] References