Iran at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Iran at the Olympic Games

Flag of Iran
IOC code  IRI
NOC National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Websitewww.olympic.ir (Persian) (English)
At the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal
Competitors 86 in 9 sports
Flag bearer Moslem Eskandar-Filabi
Medals
Rank: 33		 Gold
0		 Silver
1		 Bronze
1		 Total
2
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Iran competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada. 86 competitors, 82 men and 4 women, took part in 50 events in 9 sports.[1] Moslem Eskandar-Filabi was the flagbearer for Iran in the opening ceremony.[2]

Competitors

Sport Men Women Total
Aquatics, Water polo 11 11
Athletics 4 4
Boxing 6 6
Cycling, Road 6 6
Cycling, Track 2 2
Fencing 9 4 13
Football 17 17
Shooting 4 4
Weightlifting 7 7
Wrestling 17 17
Total 82 4 86

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Weightlifting 1 1
Wrestling 1 1
Total 0 1 1 2

Medalists

Medal Name Sport Event
 Silver Mansour Barzegar Wrestling Men's freestyle 74 kg
 Bronze Mohammad Nassiri Weightlifting Men's 52 kg

Results by event

Aquatics

Water polo

Men[3]
Squad list Initial round Final round Rank
Group A Rank Group E (7th–12th) Rank
Firouz Abdolmohammadian
Jahangir Tavakkoli
Heidar Shonjani
Ahmad Peidayesh
Dariush Movahedi
Bahram Tavakkoli
Gholamreza Firouzpour
Manouchehr Parchami
Hossein Nassim
Abdolreza Majdpour
Ahmad Yaghouti
Coach: Mansour Garousi		  Italy
L 1–12		 4  Mexico
L 3–11		 6 12
 Yugoslavia
L 0–15		  Australia
L 2–8
 Cuba
L 3–12		  Canada
L 1–8
 Cuba
L 2–10
 Soviet Union
L 0–16

Athletics

Men[4]
Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Semifinal Final Rank
Heat Time Rank Heat Time Rank Heat Time Rank Time Rank
Ayoub Bodaghi 100 m 3 11.39 7 Did not advance 62
200 m 7 22.47 6 Did not advance 39
Hossein Rabbi 5000 m 2 14:47.12 10 Did not advance 33
10000 m 3 31:44.27 13 Did not advance 35
Athlete Event Qualifying Final
Result Rank Result Rank
Teymour Ghiasi High jump 2.10 22 Did not advance
Salman Hesam Discus throw 52.40 28 Did not advance

Boxing

Men[5]
Athlete Event 1/32 final 1/16 final 1/8 final Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Saeid Bashiri 48 kg  Gedó (HUN)
L Knockout		 Did not advance 17
Behzad Ghaedi 57 kg Bye  Sichula (ZAM)
W Walkover		  Nowakowski (GDR)
L RSC		 Did not advance 9
Parviz Bahmani 60 kg Bye  El-Agely (LBA)
W Walkover		  Tzvetkov (BUL)
L 0–5		 Did not advance 9
Ali Bahri 67 kg  Bachfeld (GDR)
L RSC		 Did not advance 33
Mohammad Azarhazin 75 kg  Dorfer (AUT)
W 4–1		  Kačar (YUG)
L 0–5		 Did not advance 9
Parviz Badpa +81 kg Bye  Hill (BER)
L Knockout		 Did not advance 9

Cycling

Road

Men[6]
Athlete Event Time Rank
Mohamed Ali Acha-Cheloi Road race Did not finish
Hassan Arianfard Road race Did not finish
Mahmoud Delshad Road race Did not finish
Asghar Khodayari Road race Did not finish
Hassan Arianfard
Khosro Haghgosha
Gholam Hossein Kouhi
Asghar Khodayari		 Team time trial 2:28:25 24

Track

Men[7]
Athlete Event Elimination 1/8 final Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Time Rank
Masoud Mobaraki 1 km time trial 1:14.169 25
Gholam Hossein Kouhi Individual pursuit Overlapped Did not advance —

Fencing

Men[8]
Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Elimination Final Rank
Pools Rank Pools Rank Pools Rank
Sarkis Assadourian Individual épée  Masin (USA)
L 2–5		 Pool H
3 Q		  Mørch (NOR)
L 2–5		 Pool A
6		 Did not advance 32
 Chousurin (THA)
W 5–4		  Szabo (ROU)
L 2–5
 Bertinetti (ITA)
W 5–2		  Fenyvesi (HUN)
L 3–5
 Bourne (GBR)
L 0–5		  Müller (AUT)
L 4–5
 Koppang (NOR)
W 5–4		  Bykov (URS)
L 3–5
Iraj Dastgerdi Individual épée  Hernández (PUR)
W 5–1		 Pool I
5		 Did not advance 49
 Normann (NOR)
L 3–5
 Iorgu (ROU)
L 2–5
 Giger (SUI)
L 1–5
 Schiel (LUX)
W 5–4
Esfandiar Zarnegar Individual épée  Vergara (ARG)
L 4–5		 Pool G
5		 Did not advance 58
 Suchanecki (SUI)
L 1–5
 Wiech (POL)
L 3–5
 Edling (SWE)
L 0–5
Ahmad Akbari Individual foil  Vergara (ARG)
W 5–4		 Pool H
5		 Did not advance 38
 Behr (FRG)
W 5–2
 Jurka (TCH)
L 3–5
 Ballinger (USA)
L 4–5
 Kawatsu (JPN)
L 0–5
Hossein Niknam Individual foil  Jingu (JPN)
L 0–5		 Pool G
4 Q		  Koziejowski (POL)
L 1–5		 Pool A
6		 Did not advance 33
 Fekete (CAN)
W 5–4		  Kuki (ROU)
L 3–5
 Wojciechowski (POL)
L 1–5		  Jurka (TCH)
L 2–5
 Romankov (URS)
L 0–5		  Noël (FRA)
L 3–5
 Petruş (ROU)
W 5–3		  Stankovich (URS)
W 5–4
Ali Asghar Pashapour Individual foil  Feraud (ARG)
W 5–2		 Pool I
5		 Did not advance 38
 Reichert (FRG)
L 0–5
 Koziejowski (POL)
W 5–4
 Kuki (ROU)
L 3–5
 Jhons (CUB)
L 4–5
Ahmad Eskandarpour Individual sabre  Deanfield (GBR)
W 5–4		 Pool B
5		 Did not advance 37
 Bierkowski (POL)
L 2–5
 Mikhailov (BUL)
L 1–5
 Apostol (USA)
L 3–5
Abdolhamid Fathi Individual sabre  Bonissent (FRA)
L 0–5		 Pool A
5		 Did not advance 43
 Méndez (ARG)
L 4–5
 Nazlymov (URS)
L 0–5
 Nowara (POL)
L 1–5
Esmaeil Pashapour Individual sabre  Ortíz (CUB)
L 1–5		 Pool F
4 Q		  Westbrook (USA)
L 1–5		 Pool D
6		 Did not advance 34
 Maffei (ITA)
L 2–5		  Marin (ROU)
L 3–5
 Brandstätter (AUT)
W 5–1		  Méndez (ARG)
L 0–5
 Kaplan (USA)
L 2–5		  Jabłonowski (POL)
L 2–5
 Sidyak (URS)
L 0–5
Athlete Event Round 1 1/8 final Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Pools Rank
Sarkis Assadourian
Iraj Dastgerdi
Ali Asghar Pashapour
Esfandiar Zarnegar		 Team épée Italy
L 5–11		 Pool C
3		 Did not advance 11
Sweden
L 4–11
Ali Asghar Pashapour
Sarkis Assadourian
Hossein Niknam
Ahmad Akbari		 Team foil United States
L 4–12		 Pool D
3		 Did not advance 9
Poland
L 3–13
Hong Kong
W 9–7
Abdolhamid Fathi
Ahmad Eskandarpour
Ahmad Akbari
Esmaeil Pashapour		 Team sabre Hungary
L 2–14		 Pool D
4		 Did not advance 9
Poland
L 7–9
Argentina
L 4–9
Women[9]
Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Elimination Final Rank
Pools Rank Pools Rank Pools Rank
Jila Almasi Individual foil  Enríquez (PUR)
W 5–4		 Pool I
5		 Did not advance 37
 Wrigglesworth (GBR)
L 3–5
 Borghs (BEL)
L 3–5
 Latrille (FRA)
L 3–5
 Staszak (POL)
W 5–2
Giti Mohebban Individual foil  Armstrong (USA)
W 5–4		 Pool G
6		 Did not advance 42
 Oka (JPN)
L 3–5
 Dumont (FRA)
L 1–5
 Rejtő (HUN)
L 0–5
 Mangiarotti (ITA)
L 0–5
Mahvash Shafaei Individual foil  Drori (ISR)
L 3–5		 Pool H
6		 Did not advance 45
 Franke (USA)
L 4–5
 Collino (ITA)
L 1–5
 Halsted (GBR)
L 2–5
 Hanisch (FRG)
L 2–5
Athlete Event Round 1 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Pools Rank
Giti Mohebban
Jila Almasi
Mahvash Shafaei
Maryam Achak		 Team foil Italy
L 3–13		 Pool D
4		 Did not advance 9
Great Britain
L 7–9
United States
L 5–11

Football

Men[10]
Squad list Eightfinal Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Group C Rank
Mansour Rashidi
Hassan Nazari
Andranik Eskandarian
Bijan Zolfagharnasab
Parviz Ghelichkhani
Ebrahim Ghasempour
Ali Parvin
Nasrollah Abdollahi
Nasser Nouraei
Hassan Roshan
Alireza Khorshidi
Hassan Nayebagha
Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
Sahameddin Mirfakhraei
Ghafour Jahani
Alireza Azizi
Nasser Hejazi
Coach: Heshmat Mohajerani		  Cuba
W 1–0		 2 Q  Soviet Union
L 1–2		 Did not advance 5
 Poland
L 2–3

Shooting

Open[11]
Athlete Event Score Rank
Mohammad Ali Alijani Trap 150 41
Houshang Ghazvini Trap 71, DNF 43
Kamil Jafari Skeet 170 62
Esfandiar Lari Skeet 179 54

Weightlifting

Men[12]
Athlete Event Snatch Clean & Jerk Total Rank
Mohammad Nassiri 52 kg 100.0 135.0 235.0 3rd
Fazlollah Dehkhoda 56 kg 105.0 135.0 240.0 8
Feizollah Nasseri 56 kg 100.0 132.5 232.5 10
Davoud Maleki 60 kg 115.0 145.0 260.0 6
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi 75 kg 130.0 165.0 295.0 13
Houshang Kargarnejad 110 kg 142.5 180.0 322.5 17
Ali Vali 110 kg 140.0 No mark — —

Wrestling

Men's freestyle[13]
Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Final Rank
Sobhan Rouhi 48 kg  Frías (MEX)
W Fall		  Isaev (BUL)
L Fall		  Ri (PRK)
W 14–13		  Kim (KOR)
L Fall		 Did not advance Did not advance 9
Habib Fattahi 52 kg  Jeon (KOR)
L Fall		  Bognanni (ITA)
W 24–2		  Gál (HUN)
L Fall		 Did not advance Did not advance 10
Ramezan Kheder 57 kg  Barry (CAN)
W 23–5		  Anghel (ROU)
W 18–15		  Jung (KOR)
W 24–9		  Hatziioannidis (GRE)
W 26–8		  Dukov (BUL)
L 8–12		  Brüchert (GDR)
L Fall		 Did not advance 5
Mohsen Farahvashi 62 kg  Akdağ (TUR)
L 6–8		  Maekawa (JPN)
W 4–4		  Beiler (CAN)
W 9–5		 Bye  Davis (USA)
W 18–12		  Oidov (MGL)
L DSQP		 Did not advance 4
Mohammad Reza Navaei 68 kg  Weisenberger (FRG)
W 19–7		  Keaser (USA)
L Fall		  Fiszman (ARG)
W Fall		  Sugawara (JPN)
L 1–16		 Did not advance 10
Mansour Barzegar 74 kg  Ashuraliyev (URS)
W 6–6		  Pavlov (BUL)
W 11–5		  Spagnoli (ITA)
W DSQP		  Övermark (FIN)
W DSQP		  Hempel (GDR)
W 23–8		  Dziedzic (USA)
W 11–8		 2nd
 Date (JPN)
L Fall
Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi 82 kg  Kovács (HUN)
L DSQP		  Mazur (POL)
L 10–13		 Did not advance 13
Alireza Soleimani 90 kg  Yatsu (JPN)
L Fall		  Grangier (FRA)
W 21–7		  Morgan (CUB)
L Fall		 Did not advance 12
Reza Soukhteh-Saraei 100 kg  Shimizu (JPN)
L 6–8		  Stratz (FRG)
W 10–4		  Hellickson (USA)
L Fall		 Did not advance Did not advance 9
Moslem Eskandar-Filabi +100 kg Bye  Balla (HUN)
L DSQP		  Adyaatömör (MGL)
W Fall		  Şimon (ROU)
L DSQP		 Did not advance 7
Men's Greco-Roman[14]
Athlete Event Round 1 Round 2 Round 3 Round 4 Round 5 Round 6 Round 7 / Final Rank
Khalil Rashid-Mohammadzadeh 48 kg  Quistelli (ITA)
W Fall		  Moriwaki (JPN)
L Fall		  Angelov (BUL)
L DSQP		 Did not advance Did not advance 8
Morad Ali Shirani 52 kg Bye  Rácz (HUN)
L 6–9		  Hirayama (JPN)
W 15–12		  Krauß (FRG)
L 10–16		 Did not advance Did not advance 6
Gholamreza Ghassab 62 kg  Réczi (HUN)
L Fall		  Giuffrida (ITA)
W 27–14		  Miyahara (JPN)
L Fall		 Did not advance 9
Jafar Alizadeh 68 kg  Mané (SEN)
W Fall		  Skiöld (SWE)
L 8–22		  Nalbandyan (URS)
L Fall		 Did not advance 14
Houshang Montazeralzohour 82 kg  Petković (YUG)
L DSQP		  Takanishi (JPN)
L Fall		 Did not advance 13
Hashem Kolahi 90 kg  Andersson (SWE)
L 9–25		 Bye  Kwieciński (POL)
L Fall		 Did not advance Did not advance 9
Bahram Moshtaghi 100 kg  Skrzydlewski (POL)
L Fall		  Rheingans (USA)
L Fall		 Did not advance Did not advance 11

References

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