From: mack@isl.Stanford.EDU (mack)
Subject: IOC (Iran's Olympic Caravan)
Organization: Stanford University
Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 10:04:25 GMT


Well, I finally got my hands on a list of Iranian athletes competing
in Barcelona. There will be 40 Iranians in the competition, competinng
in 8 events. Here's more detail:

    Freestyle Wrestling (Aug. 3 thru Aug. 7)
    ----------------------------------------
        Manager:    Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran
        Head Coach: Mansour Barzegar
        Coach:      Ebrahim Javadi
        Coach:      Mohammad-Reza navai
        Masseur:    Ali Bayat
    
        48kg        Nader Rahmati
        52kg        Majid Torkan
        57kg        Oveis Mallah
        62kg        Asgari Mohammadian
        68kg        Ali Akbar-Nejad
        74kg        Amir Reza Khadem
        82kg        Rasoul Khadem
        90kg        Ayyoub Bani-Nosrat
       100kg        Kazem Gholami
       130kg        Alireza Soleymani

    Greco-Roman Wrestling (Jul. 26 thru Jul. 30)
    --------------------------------------------
        Manager:    Parviz Arab
        Coach:      Heshmat Kohandel
        Coach:      Georki Veroshnin (sorry, this is from the Persian text)
        Masseur:    Yaghoub Javan Saleh

        48kg        Reza Simkhah
        52kg        Majid Jahandideh
        62kg        Ahad Pazaj
        68kg        Abdollah chamangoli
        74kg        Ahad Javan Saleh
        90kg        Hasan Babak

    Cycling (Jul. 26 thru Aug. 2)
    -----------------------------
        Manager:    Mohammad Hashemi
        Coach:      Khosro Hagh-Gosha
        Mechanic:   Asghar Khodayari

        Cyclists:   Mehrdad Afsharian
                    Nima Ebrahim-Nejad
                    Majid Naser-Khorram
                    Khosro Ghamari
                    Hasan Sharifzadeh
                    Hossein Eslami Koohpayeh
                    Hossein Mahmoodi

    Boxing (Jul. 26 thru Aug. 9)
    ----------------------------
        Manager:    Mehdi Howeyat Doost
        Coach:      Manoochehr Maghsoodi
        Coach:      Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh

        63.5kg      Anooshiravan Noorian
        67kg        Yousef Khateri
        75kg        Siamak Varzideh
        81kg        Aliasghar Kazemi
        91kg        Morteza Shiri
        91kg+       Iraj Kia-Rostami

    Weightlifting (Jul. 26 thru Aug. 4)
    -----------------------------------
        Manager:    Manoochehr Boroomand
        Coach:      Nasrollah Dehnavi

        67.5kg      Kazem Panjavi
        75kg        Abbas Talebi
        82.5kg      Alireza Azari
       100kg        Abdollah Fatemi
       110kg        Mozaffar Ajalli

    Track and Field (Jul. 31 thru Aug. 9)
    -------------------------------------
        Manager:    Abolghasem Miri     (also coach)

        Track:      Hamid Sajjadi       (1500m and 3000m steeplechase)
        Field:      Hossein Shayan      (high jump)

    Table Tennis (Jul. 28 thru Aug. 6)
    ----------------------------------
        Manager:    Mohammad-Bagher Pesaran (also coach)

        Player:     Ebrahim Alidokht

    Tae Kwon Do (demonstration sport - Aug. 3 thru Aug. 5)
    ------------------------------------------------------
        Manager:    Gholamhossein Zolghadri (also coach)

        5th wght clss:  Fariborz Askari
        6th wght clss:  Reza Mehmandoost
        7th wght clss:  mansour Bagheri

    Medical Crew
    ------------
        Dr. Ahmad Moghareh-ie
        Dr. Shahriar bagheri
        7 others (no name available)

Does anyone recognize any of these names? I bet there's gotta be
someone on the team who is a friend or relative of a netter. Some of
the coaches are the champions of yesteryear.

All in all, 69 people have made the journey to Barcelona. Their
breakdown is as follows:

    Athletes                                40
    Coaches and trainers                    14
    Medical crew                             9
    Managers                                 5
    Mechanic (for bicycle)                   1



MISC NEWS
---------

There is also mention of others on the trip, but no names, numerbs
or affiliations are given. They will be available next week.

An interesting piece of news is that the head of Iranian Olympic
Committee has indicated that the CD for the *new* Iranian anthem has
been shipped to Barcelona. I am not sure what he means by "new". Did
Iran switch national anthems, or is this a typo?

Enjoy the games!

    --mack

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I've got all my life to live, I've got all my love to give
and I'll survive, I will survive.          --Gloria Gaynor
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