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 |
Athletics
Men’s Events
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s 100m | Hassan Taftian | |
| Men’s Discus Throw | Ehsan Hadadi |
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 |
Boxing
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Featherweight | Danial Shahbakhsh | |
| Men’s Middleweight | Shahin Mousavi |
Cycling
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Road Race | Qualified Via Rankings | |
| Men’s Time Trial | Qualified Via Rankings |
Karate
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s -75kg | Bahman Askari | |
| Men’s +75kg | Sajjad Ganjzadeh | |
| Women’s -55kg | Sara Bahmanyar | |
| Women’s +61kg | Hamideh Abbasali |
Shooting
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Mahyar Sedaghat | |
| Women’s 50m Rifle 3 Positions | Fatemeh Karamzadeh | |
| Women’s 10m Air Rifle (1) (2) |
Najmeh Khedmati | |
| Armina Sadeghian | ||
| Men’s 10m Air Pistol | Javad Foroughi | |
| Women’s 10m Air Pistol | Hanieh Rostamian | |
| Mixed Team 10m Air Pistol | Eligible to Compete |
Taekwondo
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s -58kg | Armin Hadipour | |
| Men’s -68kg | Mirhashem Hosseini |
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 |
Wrestling
| Event | Qualifying Athletes | Selected Athletes |
|---|---|---|
| Men’s Freestyle -57kg | Reza Atri | |
| Men’s Freestyle -86kg | Hassan Yazdani | |
| Men’s Freestyle -125kg | Yadollah Mohebbi | |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -60kg | Alireza Nejati | |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -77kg | Mohammad Ali Geraei | |
| Men’s Greco-Roman -130kg | Amir Ghasemi |