Iran at the 1966 Asian Games
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| 1966 Asian Games in Bangkok | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 118 in 12 sports | |||||||||||
| Medals Rank: 6 |
Gold 6 |
Silver 8 |
Bronze 17 |
Total 31 |
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Iran participated in the 1966 Asian Games held in the capital city of Bangkok, and ranked 6th with 6 gold medals on this occasion of the Asiad.[1]
Medal summary
Medal table
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
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| Athletics | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Boxing | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Cycling | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Football | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Table tennis | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Tennis | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Volleyball | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Weightlifting | 3 | 0 | 4 | 7 |
| Wrestling | 3 | 5 | 0 | 8 |
Medalists
Athletics
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Silver
- Ahmad Mirhosseini - Men's 3000 m steeplechase
- Jalal Keshmiri - Men's discus throw
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Bronze
- Teymour Ghiassi - Men's high jump
- Jalal Keshmiri - Men's shot put
Boxing
- Bronze
- Nasser Aghaei - Men's 57 kg
- Eltefat Talebi - Men's 60 kg
- Aloush Abbasi - Men's 81 kg
- Hossein Fathianpour - Men's +81 kg
Cycling
Road
- Bronze
- Team - Men's team time trial
- Team roster
- Hassan Roustaei
- Mehdi Doukchi
- Davoud Akhlaghi
- Esmaeil Hosseini
- Team roster
- Team - Men's team time trial
Track
- Bronze
- Esmaeil Hosseini - Men's individual pursuit
Football
- Silver
- Team - Men
- Team roster
- Aziz Asli
- Faramarz Zelli
- Parviz Ghelichkhani
- Hassan Habibi
- Hamid Jasemian
- Goudarz Habibi
- Mohammad Ranjbar
- Jalal Talebi
- Mostafa Arab
- Hossein Farzami
- Ali Jabbari
- Hamid Aminikhah
- Akbar Eftekhari
- Abdollah Saedi
- Fariborz Esmaeili
- Hamid Shirzadeghan
- Homayoun Behzadi
- Parviz Mirzahassan
- Head coach: Gyorgy Szucs
- Team roster
- Team - Men
Table tennis
- Bronze
- Houshang Bozorgzadeh - Men's singles
Tennis
- Bronze
- Taghi Akbari - Men's singles
- Team - Men's team
- Team roster
- Taghi Akbari
- Ezzatollah Nemati
- Nematollah Nemati
- Issa Khodaei
- Team roster
Volleyball
Indoor
- Bronze
- Team - Men
- Team roster
- Mahmoud Motlagh
- Hassan Kord
- Masoud Salehieh
- Khalil Paknazar
- Changiz Ansari
- Hassan Kabiri
- Mohammad Hemmatyar
- Mojtaba Mortazavi
- Head coach: Hossein Jabbarzadegan
- Team roster
- Team - Women
- Team roster
- Mari Tet
- Rouhi Pandnavaz
- Mehri Kharrazi
- Ozra Malek
- Mina Fathi
- Nasrin Shokoufi
- Leila Emami
- Pari Fardi
- Jaleh Seyed-Hadizadeh
- Head coach: Fereydoon Sharifzadeh
- Team roster
- Team - Men
Weightlifting
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Gold
- Mohammad Nassiri - Men's 56 kg
- Parviz Jalayer - Men's 67.5 kg
- Manouchehr Boroumand - Men's +90 kg
- Bronze
- Mohammadreza Nasehi - Men's 52 kg
- Mohammad Ammi Tehrani - Men's 75 kg
- Naser Doroudian - Men's 90 kg
- Reza Esteki - Men's +90 kg
Wrestling
Freestyle
- Gold
- Abdollah Movahed - Men's 70 kg
- Mansour Mehdizadeh - Men's 97 kg
- Eskandar Filabi - Men's +97 kg
- Silver
- Ali Akbar Heidari - Men's 52 kg
- Mohammad Ali Farrokhian - Men's 57 kg
- Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour - Men's 63 kg
- Hossein Tahami - Men's 78 kg
- Mahmoud Moezzipour - Men's 87 kg
References
- (Persian) Iran Olympic Committee - Asian Games Medalists
- (Persian) Iran National Sports Organization - Asian Games Medalists
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