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History
Iran made its first Summer Olympic appearance in 1900 when fencer Freydoun Malkom took part. The nation would not return until 1948 and has competed ever since, with the exceptions of 1980 and 1984. Iran sends a moderately size delegation to the Olympics with at least 50 athletes competing at the previous three games. The nation competes in a variety of sports with athletics, boxing, cycling, judo, shooting, taekwondo, weightlifting and wrestling being the most common.
Iran won its first medal in 1948 and has medaled at each Olympics since. In total the nation has won 68 medals across four sports with wrestling (43) and weightlifting (18) being the most successful sports. The most successful athletes are weightlifter Mohammad Nassiri, taekwondo athlete Hadi Saei and wrestler Gholamreza Takhti whom all won three medals. Nassiri won gold (1968) and silver (1972) in the men’s -56kg and bronze (1976) in the men’s -52kg. Saei won gold (2004) and bronze (2000) in the men’s -68kg and gold (2008) in the men’s -80kg. Takhti won silver (1952) in the men’s freestyle -79kg and gold (1956) and silver (1960) in the men’s freestyle -87kg. In 2016 Iran won 8 medals.
Qualified Quotas
Archery
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Individual | Milad Vaziri | Milad Vaziri |
Athletics
Men’s Events
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s 100m | Hassan Taftian | |
| Men’s 400m Hurdles | Mahdi Pirjahan | |
| Men’s Discus Throw | Ehsan Hadadi |
Women’s Events
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Women’s 100m | Fasihi Farzaneh |
Badminton
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Women’s Singles | Sorayya Aghaei | Sorayya Aghaei |
Basketball
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Tournament | Meisam Mirzaei Sajjad Mashayekhi Hamed Hosseinzadeh Behnam Yakchali Rasoul Mozaffari Mohammad Jamshidi Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Haddadi Arman Zangeneh Mike Rostampour Aaron Geramipoor Mohammad Hassanzadeh |
Mohammad Sina Vahedi Philip Jalalpoor Mohammad Hassanzadeh Saeid Davarpanah Mohammad Jamshidi Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Haddadi Navid Rezaeifar Mike Rostampour Aaron Geramipoor Arsalan Kazemi Behnam Yakhchali |
Boxing
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Featherweight | Danial Shahbakhsh | Danial Shahbakhsh |
| Men’s Middleweight | Shahin Mousavi | Shahin Mousavi |
Canoeing
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s K1 1000m | Ali Aghamirzaei | Ali Aghamirzaei |
Cycling
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Road Race | Qualified Via Rankings | Saeid Safarzadeh |
| Men’s Time Trial | Qualified Via Rankings | Saeid Safarzadeh |
Fencing
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Individual Sabre | From Team Quota | Mojtaba Abedini |
| From Team Quota | Ali Pakdaman | |
| From Team Quota | Mohammad Rahbari | |
| Men’s Team Sabre | Qualified Via Rankings | Mojtaba Abedini Ali Pakdaman Mohammad Rahbari |
Karate
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s +75kg | Sajjad Ganzjadeh | Sajjad Ganzjadeh |
| Women’s -55kg | Sara Bahmanyar | Sara Bahmanyar |
| Women’s +61kg | Hamideh Abbasali | Hamideh Abbasali |
Rowing
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Women’s Single Sculls | Nazanin Malaei | Nazanin Malaei |
Shooting
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Mahyar Sedaghat | Mahyar Sedaghat |
| Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Fatemeh Karamzadeh | Najmeh Khedmati |
| Double Starter | Fatemeh Karamzadeh | |
| Men’s 10m Air Rifle | Double Starter | Mahyar Sedaghat |
| Women’s 10m Air Rifle (1) (2) |
Najmeh Khedmati | Fatemeh Karamzadeh |
| Armina Sadeghian | Armina Sadeghian | |
| Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle | Eligible to Compete | |
| Women’s 25m Pistol | Double Starter | Hanieh Rostamian |
| Men’s 10m Air Pistol | Javad Foroughi | Javad Foroughi |
| Women’s 10m Air Pistol | Hanieh Rostamian | Hanieh Rostamian |
| Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol | Eligible to Compete |
Table Tennis
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Singles | Nima Alamian | Nima Alamian |
Taekwondo
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s -58kg | Armin Hadipour | Armin Hadipour |
| Men’s -68kg | Mirhashem Hosseini | Mirhashem Hosseini |
| Women’s -57kg | Nahid Kiani | Nahid Kiani |
Volleyball
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Indoor Volleyball | Shahram Mahmoudi Milad Ebadipour Reza Abedini Saeid Marouf Mohammad Mousavi Pouria Fayazi Mohammad Reza Hazratpour Mojtaba Mirzajanpour Ali Asghar Mojarrad Ali Shafiei Mohammad Reza Moazzen Porya Yali Morteza Sharifi Javad Karimi |
Milad Ebadipour Saeid Marouf Seyed Mohammad Mousavi Masoud Gholami Amir Ghafour Saber Kazemi Morteza Sharifi Ali Asghar Mojarrad Meysam Salehi Mahdi Marandi Arman Salehi Javad Karimi |
Weightlifting
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s -109kg | Ali Hashemi | Ali Hashemi |
| Men’s +109kg | Ali Davoudi | Ali Davoudi |
| Women’s +87kg | Parisa Jahanfekrian | Injured |
Wrestling
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Freestyle -57kg | Reza Atri | Reza Atri |
| Men’s Freestyle -65kg | Amir Mohammad Yazdani | Morteza Ghiasi |
| Men’s Freestyle -74kg | Younes Emami | Mostafa Hosseinkhani |
| Men’s Freestyle -86kg | Hassan Yazdani | Hassan Yazdani |
| Men’s Freestyle -97kg | Mohammad Hossein Mohammadian | Mohammad Hossein Mohammadian |
| Men’s Freestyle -125kg | Yadollah Mohebbi | Amir Hossein Zare |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -60kg | Alireza Nejati | Alireza Nejati |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -67kg | Mohammad Reza Geraei | Mohammad Reza Geraei |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -77kg | Mohammad Ali Geraei | Mohammad Ali Geraei |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -97kg | Mohammad Hadi Saravi | Mohammad Hadi Saravi |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -130kg | Amir Ghasemi | Amin Mirzazadeh |