Iran at the Olympics
List of medalists
Table:
Medal

Name

Games

Sport

Event

Date

Bronze
Jafar Salmasi
1948 London
Weightlifting
Men's 60 kg
019 August 1948

Bronze
Mahmoud Mollaghasemi
1952 Helsinki
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 52 kg
0223 July 1952

Bronze
Abdollah Mojtabavi
1952 Helsinki
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 73 kg
0323 July 1952

Silver
Gholamreza Takhti
1952 Helsinki
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 79 kg
0423 July 1952

Silver
Nasser Givehchi
1952 Helsinki
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 62 kg
0523 July 1952

Bronze
Jahanbakht Tofigh
1952 Helsinki
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 67 kg
0623 July 1952

Silver
Mahmoud Namjoo
1952 Helsinki
Weightlifting
Men's 56 kg
0725 July 1952

Bronze
Ali Mirzaei
1952 Helsinki
Weightlifting
Men's 56 kg
0825 July 1952

Bronze
Mahmoud Namjoo
1956 Melbourne
Weightlifting
Men's 56 kg
0923 November 1956

Silver
Mehdi Yaghoubi
1956 Melbourne
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 57 kg
101 December 1956

Silver
Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour
1956 Melbourne
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 52 kg
111 December 1956

Gold
Emam-Ali Habibi
1956 Melbourne
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 67 kg
121 December 1956

Gold
Gholamreza Takhti
1956 Melbourne
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 87 kg
131 December 1956

Bronze
Mohammad Paziraei
1960 Rome
Wrestling
Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg
1431 August 1960

Silver
Gholamreza Takhti
1960 Rome
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 87 kg
156 September 1960

Bronze
Ebrahim Seifpour
1960 Rome
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 52 kg
166 September 1960

Bronze
Esmaeil Elmkhah
1960 Rome
Weightlifting
Men's 56 kg
177 September 1960

Bronze
Ali Akbar Heidari
1964 Tokyo
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 52 kg
1814 October 1964

Bronze
Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran
1964 Tokyo
Wrestling
Men's freestyle 78 kg
1914 October 1964

Gold
Mohammad Nassiri
1968 Mexico City
Weightlifting
Men's 56 kg
2013 October 1968

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Mohammad-Jafar Salmasi ( Persian : محمدجعفر سلماسی , 22 September 1918 - 31 January 2000 ) was an Iranian weightlifter who won Iran 's first Olympic medal at 1948 Summer Olympics . He was born in Kadhimiya , Iraq but originally from Salmas , West Azerbaijan .
The 1948 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XIV Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event which was held in London , United Kingdom from 29 July to 14 August 1948 . After a twelve-year hiatus caused by the outbreak of World War II ; these were the first Summer Olympics held since the 1936 Games in Berlin . The 1940 Olympic Games had been scheduled for Tokyo , and then for Helsinki ; the 1944 Olympic Games had been provisionally planned for London . This was the second occasion that London had hosted the Olympic Games , having previously hosted them in 1908 , forty years earlier . The Olympics would again return to London 64 years later in 2012 , making London the first city to have hosted the games three times , and the only such city until Paris and Los Angeles host their third games in 2024 and 2028 , respectively . The 1948 Olympic Games were the first of two summer Olympic Games held under the IOC presidency of Sigfrid Edström . The event came to be known as the Austerity Games , because of the difficult economic climate and rationing imposed in the aftermath of World War II . No new venues were built for the games ( with events taking place mainly at Empire Stadium and the Empire Pool at Wembley Park ) , and athletes were housed in existing accommodation at the Wembley area instead of an Olympic Village , as were the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games and the subsequent 1952 Games in Helsinki . A record 59 nations were represented by 4,104 athletes , 3,714 men and 390 women , in 19 sport disciplines . Germany and Japan were not invited to participate in the games ; the Soviet Union was invited but chose not to send any athletes , sending observers instead to prepare for the 1952 Olympics . One of the star performers at the Games was Dutch sprinter Fanny Blankers-Koen . Dubbed The Flying Housewife , the thirty-year-old mother of two won four gold medals in athletics .
The weightlifting competition at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London consisted of six weight classes , all for men only . The bantamweight division was a newly created weight class , marking the first change to the Olympic program since 1920 .
The men 's 60 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London took place on 9 August at the Empress Hall of the Earls Court Exhibition Centre . The featherweight class , which had been the lightest from their introduction in the 1920 Summer Olympics until the 1936 Summer Olympics , was now the second-lightest , with a bantamweight ( 56 kg ) class split off into a separate competition . Each weightlifter had three attempts at each of the three lifts . The best score for each lift was summed to give a total . The weightlifter could increase the weight between attempts ( minimum of 5 kg between first and second attempts , 2.5 kg between second and third attempts ) but could not decrease weight . If two or more weightlifters finished with the same total , the competitors ' body weights were used as the tie-breaker ( lighter athlete wins ) .
Mahmoud Mollaghasemi Tabrizi ( Persian : محمود ملاقاسمی تبریزی ; born 5 April 1929 ) is a retired Iranian freestyle wrestler . He won a silver medal at the 1951 World Championships and a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics . Mollaghasemi was the eldest child in a large family . He lost his father , a shoemaker by trade , at an early age , and had to start working to support his family . He took up wrestling aged 18 . After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach and international referee , and attended the 1964 Olympics in this capacity .
The 1952 Summer Olympics ( Finnish : Kesäolympialaiset 1952 ; Swedish : Olympiska sommarspelen 1952 ) , officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad , were an international multi-sport event held in Helsinki , Finland , from July 19 to August 3 , 1952 . Helsinki had been earlier selected to host the 1940 Summer Olympics , which were cancelled due to World War II . It is the northernmost city at which a summer Olympic Games have been held . These were the first games to be held in a non-Indo-European language speaking country . It was also the Olympic Games at which the most number of world records were broken until it was surpassed by the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing . The Soviet Union , the People 's Republic of China , Hong Kong , Indonesia , Israel , Thailand , and Saarland made their Olympic debuts in Helsinki 1952 . The United States won the most gold and overall medals .
At the 1952 Summer Olympics , 16 wrestling events were contested , for all men . There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling . The events were held at Messuhalli .
Seyed Abdollah Mojtabavi ( Persian : سید عبدالله مجتبوی , January 4 , 1925 - January 13 , 2012 ) was an Iranian welterweight freestyle wrestler . He won bronze medals at the 1951 World Championships and 1952 Summer Olympics .
Gholamreza Takhti ( Persian : غلامرضا تختی , August 27 , 1930 - January 7 , 1968 ) was an Iranian Olympic Gold-Medalist wrestler and Varzesh-e Bastani practitioner . Popularly nicknamed Jahān Pahlevān ( The World Champion ) because of his chivalrous behavior and sportsmanship ( Javanmardi in Iranian culture ) , he was the most popular athlete of Iran in the 20th century , although dozens of Iranian athletes have won more international medals than he did . Takhti is still a hero to many Iranians . He is listed in the FILA wrestling hall of fame .
Nasser Givehchi ( Persian : ناصر گیوه چی , November 12 , 1932 - May 15 , 2017 ) was an Iranian featherweight freestyle wrestler . He competed at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1952 . He ranked fifth at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships and won a bronze medal at the 1958 Asian Games . After retiring from competitions he had a long career as a national wrestling coach and international referee .
Jahanbakht Tofigh ( Persian : جهانبخت توفیق , 9 February 1931 - 28 April 1970 ) was an Iranian freestyle wrestler . He won a gold medal at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships , which was Iran 's first gold medal at the World Wrestling Championships , and also a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics . Tofigh had a hereditary liver illness , which resulted in the death of his mother and brother . He died of the same illness in London , aged 39 .
Mahmoud Namjoo ( Persian : محمود نامجو , September 22 , 1918 - January 21 , 1989 ) was an Iranian bantamweight weightlifter . He competed at the 1948 , 1952 and 1956 Olympics and placed fifth , second and third , respectively . At the world championships he won three gold , one silver and two bronze medals between 1949 and 1957 , becoming the first Iranian weightlifter to win a world title . Namjoo was also the first Asian weightlifter to set a world record ; during his career he set four : one in clean and jerk in 1949 and three in the total , in 1948 , 1949 and 1951 . Namjoo was born in Rasht in 1918 and in 1937 moved to Tehran , where he worked at a carpentry workshop . He took weightlifting in a gym nearby . Besides weightlifting he also competed in bodybuilding , and won the Mr. Universe title in his weight division in 1948 , placing fifth in 1955 . In 1956 he spent two months working as a weightlifting coach in Turkey . He continued training in his forties and unsuccessfully tried to qualify for the 1960 Olympics . He died of pancreatic cancer aged 70 .
The weightlifting competition at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki consisted of seven weight classes , all for men only . The middle-heavyweight division was a newly created weight class , moving the heavyweight class up from 82.5 kg to 90 kg . The events were held at Messuhalli .
The men 's 56 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki took place on 25 July at Messuhalli . It was the second appearance of the bantamweight class . Each weightlifter had three attempts at each of the three lifts . The best score for each lift was summed to give a total . The weightlifter could increase the weight between attempts ( minimum of 5 kg between first and second attempts , 2.5 kg between second and third attempts ) but could not decrease weight . If two or more weightlifters finished with the same total , the competitors ' body weights were used as the tie-breaker ( lighter athlete wins ) .
Ali Mirzaei ( Persian : علی میرزایی , born 28 January 1929 ) is an Iranian former weightlifter who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics .
The 1956 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event that was held in Melbourne , Victoria , Australia from 22 November to 8 December 1956 , with the exception of the equestrian events , which were held in Stockholm , Sweden in June 1956 . These Games were the first to be staged in the Southern Hemisphere and Oceania , as well as the first to be held outside Europe and North America . Melbourne is the most southerly city ever to host the Olympics . Due to the Southern Hemisphere 's seasons being different from those in the Northern Hemisphere , the 1956 Games did not take place at the usual time of year , because of the need to hold the events during the warmer weather of the host 's spring/summer ( which corresponds to the Northern Hemisphere 's autumn/winter ) . The Olympic equestrian events could not be held in Melbourne due to Australia 's strict quarantine regulations , so they were held in Stockholm five months earlier . This was the second time that the Olympics were not held entirely in one country , the first being the 1920 Summer Olympics , which were held in Antwerp , Belgium , with some events taking place in Ostend , Belgium and Amsterdam , Netherlands . Despite uncertainties and various complications encountered during the preparations , the 1956 Games went ahead in Melbourne as planned and turned out to be a success . The enduring tradition of national teams parading as one during the closing ceremony was started at these Olympics . Several teams boycotted the Games in protest of the IOC 's rejection to suspend the USSR after their invasion of Hungary . The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals .
The weightlifting competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne consisted of seven weight classes , all for men only .
The men 's 56 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place on 23 November at the Royal Exhibition Building . It was the third appearance of the bantamweight class . Each weightlifter had three attempts at each of the three lifts . The best score for each lift was summed to give a total . The weightlifter could increase the weight between attempts ( minimum of 5 kg between first and second attempts , 2.5 kg between second and third attempts ) but could not decrease weight . If two or more weightlifters finished with the same total , the competitors ' body weights were used as the tie-breaker ( lighter athlete wins ) .
Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi ( Persian : محمد مهدی یعقوبی ; born 2 April 1930 ) is a retired Iranian bantamweight freestyle wrestler . He competed at the 1952 , 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1956 . He also won a bronze medal at the 1951 World Wrestling Championships and placed fifth in 1954 . Yaghoubi had four brothers and four sisters . He quit school at the age of 15 to make free time for work and sport .
At the 1956 Summer Olympics , 16 wrestling events were contested , all for men . There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling .
The men 's freestyle bantamweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place from 28 November to 1 December at the Royal Exhibition Building . Nations were limited to one competitor .
Mohamed Ali Khojastehpour Birang ( 1 July 1931 - 2007 ) was an Iranian flyweight freestyle wrestler . He won a silver medal at the 1956 Olympics and placed fourth at the 1959 World Championships . Khojastehpour was born in a family of eight siblings and took up wrestling aged 14 . After retiring from competitions he worked as a national wrestling coach . He died from a heart-related disease .
The men 's freestyle flyweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place from 28 November to 1 December at the Royal Exhibition Building . Nations were limited to one competitor .
Emam-Ali Habibi Goudarzi ( Persian : امامعلی حبیبی گودرزی , born 27 May 1931 ) is a retired Iranian freestyle wrestler . He won gold medals at the 1958 Asian Games ; 1959 , 1961 and 1962 world championships ; and 1956 Olympics , placing fourth in 1960 . In 2007 he was inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame . Habibi was the fourth and the last son in a large family . He lost his father at the age of 12 .
The men 's freestyle lightweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place from 28 November to 1 December at the Royal Exhibition Building . Nations were limited to one competitor .
The men 's freestyle light heavyweight competition at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne took place from 28 November to 1 December at the Royal Exhibition Building . Nations were limited to one competitor .
Mohammad Paziraei ( Persian : محمد پذیرایی , August 4 , 1929 - March 9 , 2002 ) was a Greco-Roman flyweight wrestler , who was born to an Iranian family living in Azerbaijan , but spent most of his life in Iran . He won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics and placed sixth at the 1962 World Championships .
The 1960 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( Italian : Giochi della XVII Olimpiade ) , was an international multi-sport event that was held from August 25 to September 11 , 1960 , in Rome , Italy . The city of Rome had previously been awarded the administration of the 1908 Summer Olympics , but following the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 1906 , Rome had no choice but to decline and pass the honour to London . The Soviet Union won the most gold and overall medals .
At the 1960 Summer Olympics , 16 wrestling events were contested , all for men . There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling .
The men 's Greco-Roman flyweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from 26 to 31 August at the Basilica of Maxentius . Nations were limited to one competitor .
The men 's freestyle light heavyweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from 1 to 6 September at the Basilica of Maxentius . Nations were limited to one competitor .
Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour Saadabadi ( Persian : محمد ابراهیم سیف پور سعد آبادی , born 3 March 1938 ) also known as Ebrahim Seifpour , is a retired Iranian freestyle wrestler . He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics and placed third and sixth , respectively . At the world championships he won two gold and one silver medals in 1961-65 . After retiring from competitions he worked as a wrestling coach and official .
The men 's freestyle flyweight competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place from 1 to 6 September at the Basilica of Maxentius . Nations were limited to one competitor .
Esmaeil Elmkhah ( Persian : اسماعیل علم‌خواه , 30 December 1936 - 1988 ) was an Iranian featherweight weightlifter . In 1958 he won a silver medal at the Asian Games and set four unofficial world records : one in the snatch , one in the press and two in the total . He later won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics . Elmkhah was born in Rasht , but grew up in Tehran . He had a sister , and lost his parents when he was a child .
The weightlifting competition at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome consisted of seven weight classes , all for men only .
The men 's 56 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome took place on 7 September at the Palazzetto dello Sport . It was the fourth appearance of the bantamweight class .
Seyed Ali Akbar Heidari ( Persian : سید علی اكبر حیدری , born 14 July 1941 ) is a retired Iranian flyweight freestyle wrestler . He won a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics , a silver medal at the 1966 Asian Games , and placed fourth at the 1965 World Championships .
The 1964 Summer Olympics , officially known as the Games of the XVIII Olympiad ( Japanese : 第十八回オリンピック競技大会 , Hepburn : Dai Jūhachi-kai Orinpikku Kyōgi Taikai ) , was an international multi-sport event held in Tokyo , Japan , from 10 to 24 October 1964 . Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics , but this honour was subsequently passed to Helsinki because of Japan 's invasion of China , before ultimately being cancelled because of World War II . The 1964 Summer Games were the first Olympics held in Asia , and the first time South Africa was barred from taking part due to its apartheid system in sports . ( South Africa was , however , allowed to compete at the 1964 Summer Paralympics , also held in Tokyo , where it made its Paralympic Games debut . ) Tokyo was chosen as the host city during the 55th IOC Session in West Germany , on 26 May 1959 . These games were also the first to be telecast internationally without the need for tapes to be flown overseas , as they had been for the 1960 Olympics four years earlier . The games were telecast to the United States using Syncom 3 , the first geostationary communication satellite , and from there to Europe using Relay 1 . These were also the first Olympic Games to have color telecasts , albeit partially . Certain events like the sumo wrestling and judo matches , sports huge in Japan , were tried out using Toshiba 's new colour transmission system , but only for the domestic market . History surrounding the 1964 Olympics was chronicled in the 1965 documentary film Tokyo Olympiad , directed by Kon Ichikawa . The games were scheduled for mid-October to avoid the city 's midsummer heat and humidity and the September typhoon season . The previous Olympics in Rome in 1960 started in late August and experienced hot weather .
At the 1964 Summer Olympics , 16 wrestling events were contested , for all men . There were eight weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and eight classes in freestyle wrestling .
The men 's freestyle flyweight competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 11 to 14 October at the Komazawa Gymnasium . Nations were limited to one competitor .
Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran ( Persian : محمدعلی صنعتكاران , born 18 March 1938 ) is a retired Iranian freestyle wrestler . He won a gold and a silver medal at the world championships in 1961 and 1965 , and a bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics .
The men 's freestyle welterweight competition at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo took place from 11 to 14 October at the Komazawa Gymnasium . Nations were limited to one competitor .
Mohammad Nasiri Seresht ( Persian : محمد نصیری سرشت , born 31 July 1945 ) is a retired Iranian weightlifter . He competed at the 1964 , 1968 , 1972 and 1976 Olympics and won a gold , a silver and a bronze medal . He also won gold medals at the Asian Games in 1966 , 1970 and 1974 and at the world championships in 1968-70 and 1973-74 , placing second in 1972 and third in 1966 , 1971 and 1976 . Between 1966 and 1973 he set 15 ratified world records : 10 in clean and jerk , 3 in the press and 2 in the total . In 1995 he was inducted into the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame . Nasiri took up weightlifting aged 13 . He mostly competed in the 56 kg category , but for the 1973 World Championships in Havana he lowered his body weight to 52 kg , and even shaved his head for that . In Havana he set four world records within one day . He stayed in the 52 kg division for the rest of his career .
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( Spanish : Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968 ) , officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad , was an international multi-sport event held in Mexico City , Mexico , from October 12 to the 27th . These were the first Olympic Games to be staged in Latin America and the first to be staged in a Spanish-speaking country . They were the first Games to use an all-weather ( smooth ) track for track and field events instead of the traditional cinder track . The 1968 Games were the third to be held in the last quarter of the year , after the 1956 Games in Melbourne and the 1964 Games in Tokyo . The Mexican Student Movement of 1968 happened concurrently and the Olympic Games were correlated to the government 's repression . The United States won the most gold and overall medals for the last time until 1984 .
The weightlifting competition at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City consisted of seven weight classes , all for men only . The competition was held from 17 to 21 October 1968 . It also counted as 1968 World Weightlifting Championships . Soviet Union finished first in medal table after winning three gold medals . Japan , Iran , Finland and Poland won the remaining gold medals .
The men 's 56 kg weightlifting competitions at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City took place on 13 October at the Teatro de los Insurgentes . It was the sixth appearance of the bantamweight class .