Iran at the 2000 Summer Olympics

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Iran at the Olympic Games
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At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney
Competitors	35 in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Amir Reza Khadem
Medals Rank: 27	Gold 3	Silver 0	Bronze 1	Total 4
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Athletes from the Islamic Republic of Iran competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

Contents 1 Medals 1.1 Gold 1.2 Bronze 2 Results by event 2.1 Athletics 2.2 Boxing 2.3 Canoe / Kayak 2.3.1 Flatwater 2.4 Cycling 2.4.1 Road cycling 2.5 Equestrian 2.6 Judo 2.7 Shooting 2.8 Swimming 2.9 Table tennis 2.10 Taekwondo 2.11 Weightlifting 2.12 Wrestling 2.12.1 Freestyle 2.12.2 Greco-Roman 3 References

[edit] Medals

[edit] Gold

• Hossein Tavakkoli - Weightlifting, Men's 105 kg
• Hossein Rezazadeh - Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg
• Alireza Dabir - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 58 kg

[edit] Bronze

• Hadi Saei - Taekwondo, Men's 68 kg

[edit] Results by event

[edit] Athletics

Men's 800 m:

• Mehdi Jelodarzadeh - 35th place
  1. Round 1 - 6th place in heat 6, 1:47.91, Did not advance

[edit] Boxing

Men's 51 kg:

• Mohammad Rahim Rahimi - Eliminated
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Drissa Tou of Burkino Faso, Walkover

Men's 57 kg:

• Bijan Batmani - Eliminated
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Ricardo Juarez of United States, Referee stop contest

Men's 63.5 kg:

• Anoushirvan Nourian - Eliminated
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Olusegun Ajose of Nigeria, Walkover

Men's 67 kg:

• Babak Moghimi - Eliminated
  1. Round of 32 - Lost to Sherzod Husanov of Uzbekistan, 15-5

Men's 91 kg:

• Rouhollah Hosseini - Eliminated
  1. Round of 16 - Lost to Mark Simmons of Canada, 11-6

[edit] Canoe / Kayak

[edit] Flatwater

Men's kayak singles 500 m:

• Nader Eivazi - 29th place
  1. Heats - 8th place in heat 3, 1:49.306, Did not advance

Men's kayak singles 1000 m:

• Nader Eivazi - 31st place
  1. Heats - 8th place in heat 2, 3:59.767, Did not advance

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road cycling

Men's road race:

• Hossein Askari - Did not finish
• Ahad Kazemi - Did not finish

[edit] Equestrian

Individual jumping:

• Ali Nilforoushan - 56th place
  1. Qualifier - 50.50 penalties, Did not advance

[edit] Judo

Men's 66 kg:

• Arash Miresmaeili - 5th place
  1. Round of 64 - Bye
  2. Round of 32 - Lost to Huseyin Ozkan of Turkey by waza-ari
  3. Repechage round of 32 - Defeated Georgi Georgiev of Bulgaria by ippon
  4. Repechage round of 16 - Defeated Zhang Guangjun of China by ippon
  5. Repechage quarterfinal - Defeated Yukimasa Nakamura of Japan by ippon
  6. Bronze medal match - Lost to Girolamo Giovinazzo of Italy by yuko

Men's 81 kg:

• Kazem Sarikhani - 7th place
  1. Round of 64 - Bye
  2. Round of 32 - Defeated Brahima Guindo of Mali by ippon
  3. Round of 16 - Defeated Graeme Randall of Great Britain by ippon
  4. Quarterfinal - Lost to Nuno Delgado of Portugal by ippon
  5. Repechage round of 16 - Defeated Daniel Kelly of Australia by ippon
  6. Repechage quarterfinal - Lost to Aleksei Budolin of Estonia by ippon

Men's +100 kg:

• Mahmoud Miran - Eliminated
  1. Round of 64 - Bye
  2. Round of 32 - Lost to Frank Möller of Germany by koka

[edit] Shooting

Women's 10 m air pistol:

• Manijeh Kazemi - 43rd place
  1. Qualification - 362 points, Did not advance

[edit] Swimming

Men's 100 m freestyle:

• Hamidreza Mobarrez - 65th place
  1. Heats - 54.12, Did not advance

[edit] Table tennis

Men's singles:

• Majid Ehteshamzadeh - Eliminated
  1. Group round - 3rd place in group J, Did not advance
     1. Lost to Trinko Keen of Netherlands, 3-0
     2. Lost to Ntaniel Tsiokas of Greece, 3-0

[edit] Taekwondo

Men's 68 kg:

• Hadi Saei - Bronze medal
  1. Round of 16 - Defeated Hsu Chi-Hung of Chinese Taipei, 5-2
  2. Quarterfinal - Defeated Alejandro Hernando of Argentina, 3-0
  3. Semifinal - Lost to Sin Joon-Sik of South Korea, 5-3
  4. Repechage semifinal - Defeated Carlo Massimino of Australia, 6-5
  5. Bronze medal match - Defeated Tuncay Caliskan of Austria, 4-2

Men's 80 kg:

• Majid Aflaki - Eliminated
  1. Round of 16 - Lost to Victor Manuel Estrada of Mexico, 4-3

[edit] Weightlifting

Men's 62 kg:

• Mehdi Panzvan - 5th place, 302.5 kg

Men's 77 kg:

• Mohammad Hossein Barkhah - No mark

Men's 85 kg:

• Shahin Nasirinia - No mark

Men's 94 kg:

• Kourosh Bagheri - 4th place, 402.5 kg

Men's 105 kg:

• Hossein Tavakkoli - Gold medal, 425 kg

Men's +105 kg:

• Hossein Rezazadeh - Gold medal, 472.5 kg

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Freestyle

Men's 54 kg:

• Behnam Tayyebi - 13th place
  1. Preliminary round - 3rd place in pool 6, Did not advance
     1. Defeated Tumendemberel Zuunbayan of Mongolia, 3-2
     2. Lost to Amiran Karntanov of Greece, 7-0
     3. Lost to Vitalie Railean of Moldova, 2-1

Men's 58 kg:

• Alireza Dabir - Gold medal
  1. Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 1
     1. Defeated Talata Embalo of Guinea-Bissau, 10-0
     2. Defeated Guivi Sissaouri of Canada, 3-0
  2. Quarterfinal - Defeated Oyunbileg Purevbaatar of Mongolia, 5-2
  3. Semifinal - Defeated Terry Brands of United States, 6-4
  4. Final - Defeated Yevgen Buslovych of Ukraine, 3-0

Men's 63 kg:

• Mohammad Talaei - 4th place
  1. Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 3
     1. Defeated Cary Kolat of United States, 5-4
     2. Defeated Ramil Islamov of Uzbekistan, Walkover
  2. Quarterfinal - Defeated Arshak Hayrapetyan of Armenia, 3-2
  3. Semifinal - Lost to Serafim Barzakov of Bulgaria, 4-0
  4. Bronze medal match - Lost to Jang Jae-Sung of South Korea, 12-2

Men's 69 kg:

• Amir Tavakkolian - 10th place
  1. Preliminary round - 2nd place in pool 1, Did not advance
     1. Defeated Emzar Bedineishvili of Georgia, 5-4
     2. Lost to Daniel Igali of Canada, 2-2

Men's 76 kg:

• Pejman Dorostkar - 12th place
  1. Preliminary round - 2nd place in pool 2, Did not advance
     1. Defeated Tumen-Ulzii Munkhbayar of Mongolia, 3-0
     2. Lost to Gennadiy Laliyev of Kazakhstan, 3-1

Men's 85 kg:

• Amir Reza Khadem - 4th place
  1. Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 6
     1. Defeated Nicolae Ghita of Romania, 5-3
     2. Defeated Akesse Aka of Ivory Coast, 4-0
     3. Defeated Gabor Capuvari of Hungary, 5-3
  2. Quarterfinal - Bye
  3. Semifinal - Lost to Yoel Romero of Cuba, 3-0
  4. Bronze medal match - Lost to Mogamed Ibragimov of Macedonia, 4-1

Men's 97 kg:

• Alireza Heidari - 6th place
  1. Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 2
     1. Defeated Rolf Scherrer of Switzerland, 7-1
     2. Defeated Ahmet Dogu of Turkey, 6-1
  2. Quarterfinal - Lost to Eldar Kurtanidze of Georgia, 1-0
  3. 5th place match - Lost to Aftandil Xanthopoulos of Greece, Walkover

Men's 130 kg:

• Abbas Jadidi - 4th place
  1. Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 6
     1. Defeated Efstathios Topalidis of Greece, 9-1
     2. Defeated Alex Modebadze of Georgia, 4-0
  2. Quarterfinal - Bye
  3. Semifinal - Lost to David Musulbes of Russia, 3-0
  4. Bronze medal match - Lost to Alexis Rodriguez of Cuba, 1-0

[edit] Greco-Roman

Men's 54 kg:

• Hassan Rangraz - 14th place
  1. Preliminary round - 2nd place in pool 3, Did not advance
     1. Defeated Petr Svehla of Czech Republic, 8-2
     2. Lost to Wang Hui of China, 8-2

Men's 58 kg:

• Ali Ashkani - 5th place
  1. Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 2
     1. Defeated Istvan Majoros of Hungary, 5-1
     2. Defeated Koba Guliashvaili of Georgia, 7-0
  2. Quarterfinal - Lost to Kim In-Sub of South Korea, 3-1
  3. 5th place match - Defeated James Gruenwald of United States, 3-2

Men's 69 kg:

• Parviz Zeidvand - 16th place
  1. Preliminary round - 3rd place in pool 3, Did not advance
     1. Lost to Islam Dugushiev of Azerbaijan, 5-0
     2. Lost to Juha Lappalainen of Finland, 2-1

[edit] References

• Wallechinsky, David (2004). The Complete Book of the Summer Olympics (Athens 2004 Edition). Toronto, Canada. ISBN 1-894963-32-6.
• International Olympic Committee (2001). The Results. Retrieved 11/12/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 1: Preparing for the Games. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad Volume 2: Celebrating the Games. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games (2001). The Results. Retrieved 11/20/05.
• International Olympic Committee Web Site

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