List of Olympic medalists from Iran

IRI

The National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran was founded in 1947 and became a member of the International Olympic Committee that same year .

Medals balance

So far, 443 (429 men, 14 women) athletes from Iran have won 69 Olympic medals (19 gold, 22 silver and 28 bronze).

The youngest athlete to date is the gymnast Jamileh Sorouri (14 years, 226 days) at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo , the oldest is table tennis player Majid Reza Ehteshamzadeh (43 years, 278 days) at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney .

At the 2012 Summer Olympics , Iran won an athletics medal in the men's discus throw for the first time. All other medals were won in wrestling , weightlifting, and taekwondo .

The most successful Iranians to date are Hadi Saei (2 × gold and 1 × bronze), Hossein Rezazadeh (2 × gold), Gholamreza Takhti (1 × gold and 2 × silver) and Mohammad Nassiri (1 × gold, 1 × silver and 1 × bronze).

The youngest medalist is freestyle wrestler Nasser Givehchi , who won silver at the Helsinki Featherweight Games at the age of 16 .

Iran at the Summer Olympics							Iran at the Winter Olympics
year	gold	silver	bronze	total	rank	year	gold	silver	bronze	total	rank
1900	0	0	0	0
1904	-	-	-	-	-
1908	-	-	-	-	-
1912	-	-	-	-	-
1920	-	-	-	-	-
1924	-	-	-	-	-	1924	-	-	-	-	-
1928	-	-	-	-	-	1928	-	-	-	-	-
1932	-	-	-	-	-	1932	-	-	-	-	-
1936	-	-	-	-	-	1936	-	-	-	-	-
1948	0	0	1	1	34	1948	-	-	-	-	-
1952	0	3	4th	7th	30th	1952	-	-	-	-	-
1956	2	2	1	5	14th	1956	0	0	0	0
1960	0	1	3	4th	27	1960	-	-	-	-	-
1964	0	0	2	2	34	1964	0	0	0	0
1968	2	1	2	5	19th	1968	0	0	0	0
1972	0	2	1	3	28	1972	0	0	0	0
1976	0	1	1	2	33	1976	0	0	0	0
1980	-	-	-	-	-	1980	-	-	-	-	-
1984	-	-	-	-	-	1984	-	-	-	-	-
1988	0	1	0	1	36	1988	-	-	-	-	-
1992	0	1	2	3	44	1992	-	-	-	-	-
1996	1	1	1	3	43	1994	-	-	-	-	-
2000	3	0	1	4th	27	1998	0	0	0	0
2004	2	2	2	6th	29	2002	0	0	0	0
2008	1	0	1	2	51	2006	0	0	0	0
2012	5	6th	2	13	17th	2010	0	0	0	0
2016	3	1	4th	8th		2014	0	0	0	0
2020	-	-	-	-	-	2018	0	0	0	0
total	19th	22nd	28	69		total	0	0	0	0
						Ges. S + W	19th	22nd	28	69

Medalist

Surname	sport	Year / discipline	gold	silver	bronze	total
Saeid Mourad Abdvali	Wrestling	Rio de Janeiro 2016 : Greco-Roman class up to 75 kg	-	-	1	1
Rahim Aliabadi	Wrestling	Munich 1972 : paper weight (Greco-Roman)	-	1	-	1
Kimia Alisadeh	Taekwondo	Rio de Janeiro 2016 : featherweight , women	-	-	1	1
Mansour Barzegar	Wrestling	Montreal 1976 : Welterweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	1
Hadi Saei Bonehkohal	Taekwondo	Sydney 2000 : lightweight	-	-	1	3
		Athens 2004 : lightweight	1	-	-
		Beijing 2008 : middleweight	1	-	-
Alireza Dabir	Wrestling	Sydney 2000 : Bantamweight (freestyle)	1	-	-	1
Hassan Esmaeil Elmkhah	Weightlifting	Rome 1960 : bantamweight	-	-	1	1
Komeil Ghasemi	Wrestling	London 2012 : up to 120 kg freestyle , men	-	-	1	2
		Rio de Janeiro 2016 : Freestyle class up to 125 kg	-	1	-
Wet Givehchi	Wrestling	Helsinki 1952 : featherweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	1
Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi	Wrestling	London 2012 : up to 74 kg freestyle , men	-	1	-	1
Imam Ali Habibi	Wrestling	Melbourne 1956 : lightweight (freestyle)	1	-	-	1
Ehsan Hadadi	athletics	London 2012 : Discus throw , gentlemen	-	1	-	1
Sajjad Hamlabad	Weightlifting	London 2012 : super heavyweight	-	1	-	1
Ali Akbar Heidari	Wrestling	Tokyo 1964 : Flyweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Alireza Heidari	Wrestling	Athens 2004 : heavyweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Abbas Jadidi	Wrestling	Atlanta 1996 : heavyweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	1
Parviz Jalayer	Weightlifting	Mexico City 1968 : lightweight	-	1	-	1
Ibrahim Javadi	Wrestling	Munich 1972 : paper weight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Masoud Mostafa Jokar	Wrestling	Athens 2004 : featherweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	1
Youssef Karami	Taekwondo	Athens 2004 : middleweight	-	-	1	1
Amir Reza Khadem	Wrestling	Barcelona 1992 : welterweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	2
		Atlanta 1996 : Middleweight (freestyle)	-	-	1
Rasoul Khadem	Wrestling	Barcelona 1992 : Middleweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	2
		Atlanta 1996 : Light Heavyweight (Freestyle)	1	-	-
Mohammad Ali Khojastepour	Wrestling	Melbourne 1956 : Flyweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	1
Ehsan Naser Lashgari	Wrestling	London 2012 : up to 84 kg freestyle , men	-	-	1	1
Ali Mirzaei	Weightlifting	Helsinki 1952 : bantamweight	-	-	1	1
Morad Mohammadi	Wrestling	Beijing 2008 : Featherweight (Freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Askari Mohammadian	Wrestling	Seoul 1988 : Bantamweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	2
		Barcelona 1992 : featherweight (freestyle)	-	1	-
Saeid Mohammadpour	Weightlifting	London 2012 : Middle Heavyweight	1	-	-	1
Abdollah Mojtabavi	Wrestling	Helsinki 1952 : Welterweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Mahmoud Mollaghassemi	Wrestling	Helsinki 1952 : flyweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Sohrab Moradi	Weightlifting	Rio de Janeiro 2016 : middle heavyweight	1	-	-	1
Mohammad Bagheri Motamed	Taekwondo	London 2012 : featherweight	-	1	-	1
Abdollah Movahed	Wrestling	Mexico City 1968 : lightweight (freestyle)	1	-	-	1
Mahmoud Namdjou	Weightlifting	Helsinki 1952 : bantamweight	-	1	-	2
		Melbourne 1956 : bantamweight	-	-	1
Navab nasirshelal	Weightlifting	London 2012 : heavyweight	-	1	-	1
Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	Mexico City 1968 : bantamweight	1	-	-	3
		Munich 1972 : Bantamweight	-	1	-
		Montreal 1976 : flyweight	-	-	1
Mohammad Paziraei	Wrestling	Rome 1960 : Flyweight (Greco-Roman)	-	-	1	1
Hassan Rahimi	Wrestling	Rio de Janeiro 2016 : Freestyle class up to 57 kg	-	-	1	1
Alireza Rezaei	Wrestling	Athens 2004 : super heavyweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	1
Ghasem Rezaei	Wrestling	London 2012 : up to 96 kg gr.-roman.	1	-	-	2
		Rio de Janeiro 2016 : Greco-Roman class up to 98 kg	-	-	1
Hossein Rezazadeh	Weightlifting	Sydney 2000 : super heavyweight	1	-	-	2
		Athens 2004 : super heavyweight	1	-	-
Kianoush Rostami	Weightlifting	London 2012 : Light Heavyweight	-	1	-	2
		Rio de Janeiro 2016 : light heavyweight	1	-	-
Behdad Salimikordasiabi	Weightlifting	London 2012 : super heavyweight	1	-	-	1
Mohammad Jafar Salmasi	Weightlifting	London 1948 : featherweight	-	-	1	1
Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran	Wrestling	Tokyo 1964 : Welterweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour	Wrestling	Rome 1960 : flyweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Shamseddin Seyed Abbasi	Wrestling	Mexico City 1968 : featherweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Hamid Soryan Reihanpour	Wrestling	London 2012 : up to 55 kg gr.-roman.	1	-	-	1
Gholamreza Takhti	Wrestling	Helsinki 1952 : Middleweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	3
		Melbourne 1956 : Light Heavyweight (Freestyle)	1	-	-
		Rome 1960 : light heavyweight (freestyle)	-	1	-
Aboutaleb Talebi	Wrestling	Mexico City 1968 : Bantamweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Hossein Tavakoli	Weightlifting	Sydney 2000 : heavyweight	1	-	-	1
Jahanbakht Tofigh	Wrestling	Helsinki 1952 : lightweight (freestyle)	-	-	1	1
Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi	Wrestling	Melbourne 1956 : Bantamweight (freestyle)	-	1	-	1
Hassan Yazdani	Wrestling	Rio de Janeiro 2016 : Freestyle class up to 74 kg	1	-	-	1

See also

• Olympic history of Iran

Web links

• Statistics (English)