1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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The Iran participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki in part with 22 male athletes in 22 competitions in four sports.

Since 1900 it was the third participation of an Iranian team in the Summer Olympics .

Flag bearer

Weightlifter Mahmoud Namdjou carried the flag of Iran during the opening ceremony in the Olympic Stadium .

Medalist

With three won silver and four bronze, the Iranian team was ranked 30 in the medal count .

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Wet Givehchi	Wrestling	Featherweight
Mahmoud Namdjou	Weightlifting	Bantamweight
Gholamreza Takhti	Wrestling	medium weight

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Jahanbakht Tofigh	Wrestling	lightweight
Ali Mirzaei	Weightlifting	Bantamweight
Abdollah Mojtabavi	Wrestling	Welterweight
Mahmoud Mollaghassemi	Wrestling	Flyweight

Participants by sport

Boxing

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Bantam weight (up to 54 kg)

• Fazlollah Nikkhah

  Round 1: BYE

  Round 2: 0: 3 defeat against Gang Jun-Ho from South Korea by a judge's decision

Feather weight (up to 57 kg)

• Emmanuel Agassi

  Round 1: 0: 3 defeat against Len Leisching from South Africa by a judge's decision

Lightweight (up to 60 kg)

• Petros Nazarbegian

  Round 1: BYE

  Round 2: 0: 3 defeat of Erkki Pakkanen from Finland by a judge's decision

Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)

• Ibrahim Afsharpour

  Round 1: 0: 3 defeat against Terence Milligan from Ireland by a judge's decision

Welter weight (up to 67 kg)

• George Issabeg

  Round 1: prevailed against Fathi Ali Abdel Rahman from Egypt (disqualification)

  Round 2: 1: 2 defeat against Moos Linneman from the Netherlands by a judge's decision

Medium weight (up to 71 kg)

• Ardashes Saginian

  Round 1: 0: 3 defeat against Eladio Herrera from Argentina by a judge's decision

Weightlifting

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Bantam weight (up to 56 kg)

• Ali Mirzaei (56.00 kg)

  Final: 300.0 kg, 3rd place

  Military press: 87.5kg / 92.5kg / 95.0kg, rank 1

  Push: 87.5kg / 92.5kg / 92.5kg, 5th rank

  Tear: 112.5kg / 117.5kg / 117.5kg , rank 7

• Mahmoud Namdjou (56.00 kg)

  Final: 307.5 kg, 2nd place

  Military press: 85.0 kg / 90.0 kg / 95.0 kg , rank 2

  Tear: 90.0kg / 95.0kg / 97.5kg , rank 2

  Push: 122.5kg / 122.5kg / 132.5kg , rank 2

Feather weight (up to 60 kg)

• Mohssain Tabatabaie (59.85 kg)

  Final: 307.5 kg, rank 8

  Military press: 90.0 kg / 95.0 kg / 95.0 kg , rank 7

  Tear: 90.0kg / 95.0kg / 97.5kg, rank 5

  Push: 115.0kg / 115.0kg / 120.0kg, rank 8

Lightweight (up to 67.5 kg)

• Hassan Ferdous (67.20 kg)

  Final: 345.0 kg, 5th place

  Military press: 97.5kg / 102.5kg / 102.5kg, rank 6

  Tear: 102.5kg / 102.5kg / 107.5kg, rank 3

  Push: 130.0kg / 130.0kg / 135.0kg, 5th rank

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

• Jalal Mansouri

  Final: 357.5 kg, rank 8

  Military press: 110.0 kg, rank 6

  Snatch: 107.5 kg, rank 9

  Push: 140.0 kg, rank 8

Lightweight (up to 82.5 kg)

• Mohammad Hassan Rahnavardi

  Final: 402.5 kg, 4th place

  Military press: 120.0 kg, rank 5

  Snatch: 122.5 kg, rank 4

  Push: 160.0 kg, rank 2

Medium weight (up to 90 kg)

• Firouz Pojhan

  Final: 387.5 kg, 5th place

  Military press: 112.5 kg, 5th rank

  Snatch: 120.0 kg, rank 5

  Push: 155.0 kg, 4th place

athletics

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5000 m

• Ali Baghbanbashi

  Prelims : in run 2 (rank 11) with 14: 57.2 minutes (hand-stopped) not qualified for the final

3000 m obstacle

• Ali Baghbanbashi

  Preliminary runs : in run 2 (rank 6) with 9: 13.2 minutes (hand-stopped) or 9: 13.43 minutes (electronically) not qualified for the final

Wrestling

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Freestyle

Flyweight (up to 52 kg)

• Mahmoud Mollaghassemi

  Final balance: 1: 1, six minus points, 3rd place

  Round 1: victory against Niranjan Das from India

  Round 2: Shoulder win against Louis Baise from South Africa

  Round 3: 3-0 win against Heinrich Weber from Germany

  Round 4: 2-1 win against Hasan Gemici from Turkey

  Round 5: 2-1 win against Georgy Sayadov from the Soviet Union

  Final round: 3-0 defeat against Yūshū Kitano from Japan

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

• Mohamed Mehdi Yaghoubi

  eliminated after round 3, five minus points

  Round 1: Shoulders defeat against Rəşid Məmmədbəyov from the Soviet Union

  Round 2: 3-0 win over William Dean Borders of the United States of America

  Round 3: 3-0 win against Sayed Hafez Shehata from Egypt

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

• Wet Givehchi

  Final balance: 1: 1, eight minus points, 2nd place

  Round 1: 3-0 win over Herbie Hall from Great Britain

  Round 2: won without a fight

  Round 3: 3-0 win over Keshav Mangave from India

  Round 4: 2-1 win against Abdel Fattah Essawi from Egypt

  Round 5: 2-1 win over Risaburo Tominaga from Japan

  Round 6: 0-3 defeat against Bayram Şit from Turkey

  Round 7: won without a fight

  Final round: 2-1 win over Josiah Henson of the United States of America

Lightweight (up to 67 kg)

• Jahanbakht Tofigh

  Final balance: 0: 2, ten minus points, 3rd place

  Round 1: 3-0 win against József Gál from Hungary

  Round 2: victory against Raymond Myland from Great Britain

  Round 3: 2-1 win against Tevfik Yüce from Turkey

  Round 4: 2-1 win against Heinrich Nettesheim from Germany

  Round 5: 3-0 win against Armenak Yaltyrjan from the Soviet Union

  Round 6: 3-0 win against Olle Anderberg from Sweden

  Round 7: won without a fight

  Final round: 1: 2 loss to Jay Thomas Evans from the United States of America

Welter weight (up to 73 kg)

• Abdollah Mojtabavi

  Final balance: 1: 1, eight minus points, 3rd place

  Round 1: 2: 1 win against Aleksanteri Keisala from Finland

  Round 2: 2-1 win over Vasyl Rybalko from the Soviet Union

  Round 3: 3-0 win over Bevan Scott from Australia

  Round 4: 3-0 win over Tsugio Yamazaki of Japan

  Round 5: won without a fight

  Round 6: 0-3 defeat against Per Berlin from Sweden

  Final round: 3-0 loss to William Smith from the United States of America

Middle weight (up to 79 kg)

• Gholamreza Takhti

  Final balance: 1: 1, five minus points, 2nd place

  Round 1: Win against André Brunaud from France

  Round 2: Win against Veikko Lahti from Finland

  Round 3: Win against León Genuth from Argentina

  Round 4: 3-0 win against Haydar Zafer from Turkey

  Round 5: 3-0 win against Gustav Gocke from Germany

  Round 6: 1: 2 defeat against Dawit Tschimakuridze from the Soviet Union

  Final round: Victory against György Gurics from Hungary (opponent gave up due to injury)

Light heavyweight (up to 87 kg)

• Abbas Zandi

  eliminated after round 4, five minus points, 5th place

  Round 1: continue without a fight

  Round 2: 3-0 win over Kevin Coote from Australia

  Round 3: 3-0 win against Paavo Sepponen from Finland

  Round 4: 1: 2 defeat against Viking Palm from Sweden

Heavy weight (over 87 kg)

• Ahad Vafadar

  eliminated after round 2, six minus points

  Round 1: Shoulders defeat against Taisto Kangasniemi from Finland

  Round 2: 1: 2 defeat against İrfan Atan from Turkey

Web links

• Helsinki 1952 - Official Site of the Olympic Movement (English).
• Iranian Olympic team 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).