1948 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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The 1948 Summer Olympics in London were the second Summer Games with Iranian participation. The Iranian team consisted of 35 athletes (men only) who competed in five of the nineteen sports that were held and who achieved 36th place in the medal table.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was Mostafa Baharmast .

Weightlifter Mohammad Jafar Salmasi won the very first and only Iranian medal at these games: bronze in featherweight.

The youngest Iranian athlete was the boxer Emmanuel Agassi (17 years, 226 days), the father of the later tennis superstar Andre Agassi . The oldest Iranian athlete was the weightlifter Asadollah Mihani Tehrani (30 years, 82 days).

Medals

bronze

• Mohammad Jafar Salmasi - weightlifting , featherweight (-60 kg)

Results by sport

basketball

team

Kazem Ashtari Asghar Ehsasi Fereydoun Esfandiari Hossein Hashemi

Hossein Jabbarzadegan Hossein Karandish Farhang Mohtadi Houshang Rafatjah

Fereydoun Sadeghi Ziaoddin Shadman Abolfazl Solbi Hossein Sorouri Hossein Saoudipour

Kazem Rahbari (head coach)

Preliminary group A (men)

game	encounter	Result	rank
1.	France vs. Iran	62:30
2.	Iran vs. Ireland	49:22
3.	Mexico vs. Iran	68:27
4th	Cuba vs. Iran	63:30
.	Final score	136: 219	5.

• Placement game 9th to 16th - defeat Canada , 81:25
• Placement game 13th to 16th - defeated Hungarians , walkover (Hungary did not play)
• Placement game 13th to 14th - defeat Cuba , 70:36

Boxing

Fly weight (-51 kg)

• Ghassem Rassaeli - eliminated
  • 1st round - Hermanus Corman from the Netherlands defeated on points

Bantam weight (-54 kg)

• Emmanuel Agassi - retired
  • 1st round - Alvaro Vicente Demenech from Spain lost on points

Feather weight (-58 kg)

• Jamshid Fani - eliminated
  • 1st round - Armand Savoie from Canada was disqualified

Light weight (-62 kg)

• Masoud Rahimiha - eliminated
  • 1st round - Manuel Lopez from Argentina lost on points

Welter weight (-67 kg)

• George Issabeg - retired
  • 1st round - Alessandro D'Ottavio from Italy lost on points

Middle weight (-73 kg)

• Hossein Tousi - retired
  • 1st round - lost to Tore Karlsson from Sweden on points
  • 2nd round - Michael McKeon from Ireland lost on points

Light heavyweight (-80 kg)

• Eskandar Shora Ossipoff - eliminated
  • 1st round bye
  • 2nd round - defeated Giacomo di Segni from Italy on points

Heavy weight (+80 kg)

• Mohammad Jamshidabadi - retired
  • 1st round bye
  • 2nd round - defeated Gunnar Nilsson from Sweden , disqualified

Weightlifting

Weight class	Surname	Bottom line	rank
Bantam weight (-56 kg)	Mahmoud Namdjou	287.5 kg	5.
Feather weight (-60 kg)	Mohammad Jafar Salmasi	312.5 kg	3.
Lightweight (-67.5 kg)	Asadollah Mihani Tehrani	295 kg	19th
Middle weight (-75 kg)	Naser Mirghavami	327.5 kg	13th place
Light heavyweight (-82.5 kg)	Rasoul Raeisi	355 kg	8th place

Wrestling

Fly weight (-52 kg) - freestyle

• Mansour Raeisi - 4th place
  • 1st round - defeated Billy Jernigan from USA on points
  • 2nd Round - Defeated Bert Harris of Australia
  • 3rd Round - Defeated Kha-Shaba Jadav of India
  • 4th round - Halit Balamir from Turkey lost on points

Featherweight (-62 kg) - freestyle

• Hassan Saadian - eliminated
  • 1st round - defeated Gazanfer Bilge from Turkey
  • 2nd Round - Defeated Hal Moore of USA on points
  • 3rd round - Ferenc Tóth from Hungary lost on points

Lightweight (-67 kg) - freestyle

• Ali Ghaffari - eliminated
  • 1st round - defeat Anthony Ries from South Africa on points
  • 2nd Round - Defeated Kim Suk-Young of South Korea
  • 3rd round - defeated William Koll from USA

Welterweight (-73 kg) - freestyle

• Abbas Zandi - eliminated
  • 1st Round - Defeated Eduardo Estrada Ojeda of Mexico
  • 2nd round - defeated Yaşar Doğu from Turkey
  • 3rd round - defeated Jean-Baptiste Leclerc from France on points

Middleweight (-79 kg) - freestyle

• Abbas Hariri - eliminated
  • 1st round - defeated Glen Brand from USA on points
  • 2nd round - not started

Light heavyweight (-87 kg) - freestyle

• Mansour Mirghavami - eliminated
  • 1st round - Patrick Morton from South Africa lost on points
  • 2nd round - József Tarányi from Hungary lost on points

Heavyweight (+87 kg) - freestyle

• Abolghasem Sakhdari - 5th place
  • 1st round bye
  • 2nd round - Richard Hutton from USA lost on points
  • 3rd round - defeated Bertil Antonsson from Sweden

shoot

Free rifle three position fight - 300 meters

• Samad Mollazal - 660 points, 34th place
• Mahmoud Sakhaei - 587 points, 35th place
• Farhang Khosropanah - 472 points, 36th place

Small caliber lying - 50 meters

• Mahmoud Sakhaei - 552 points, 67th place
• Farhang Khosropanah - 545 points, 69th place
• Samad Mollazal - 511 points, 71st place

Web links

• NOCIRI website
• Iranian Olympic team 1948 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )