1964 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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Iran participated in the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo with a delegation of 62 athletes (58 men and 4 women) in 58 competitions in eleven sports.

The Iranian athletes won two bronze medals, which put Iran in 34th place in the medal table. The freestyle wrestlers Ali Akbar Heidari and Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran took third place in flyweight and welterweight respectively.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Wet Aghaie

  Flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Hassan Pakandam

  Lightweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Nadimi Ghasre Dashti

  Light welterweight: eliminated in the second round

• Sayed Mahmoudpour Roudsari

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

fencing

Men

• Wet Madani

  Foil: 17th place

  Saber eliminated in the preliminary round

  Foil team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Epee team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Saber team: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Houshmand Almasi

  Foil: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Epee: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Saber eliminated in the preliminary round

  Foil team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Epee team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Saber team: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Bizhan Zarnegar

  Foil: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Epee: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Saber eliminated in the preliminary round

  Foil team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Epee team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Saber team: eliminated in the preliminary round

• Shahpour Zarnegar

  Epee: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Foil team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Epee team: eliminated in the preliminary round

  Saber team: eliminated in the preliminary round

Soccer

Men

• eliminated in the group stage

  Abdullah Sayedi

  Ali Mirzai

  Aziz Asli

  Darioush Mostafavi

  Fariborz Esmaili

  Gholam Hussain Nourian

  Hassan Habibi

  Jalal Talebi

  Kambozia Jamali

  Karam Naierlou

  Mansour Amirasefi

  Hossein Khodaparast

  Mohamed Bayati

  Mostafa Arab

  Parviz Qelichkhani

  Nader Latifi

Weightlifting

• Rajabi Eslami

  Bantamweight: 10th place

• Mohammad Nassiri

  Bantamweight: 15th place

• Parviz Jalayer

  Lightweight: 7th place

• Reza Estaki

  Light heavyweight: 12th place

• Manuchehr Borumand

  Heavyweight: 12th place

athletics

Men

• Akbar Babakhanlou

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Vahab Shahkhordeh

  200 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Hossein Ghafourizadeh

  400 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Ibrahim Yazdan Panah

  800 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  1500 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Sayed Mirza Molimadail

  Discus throw: 27th place

Women

• Nazli Bayat Makou

  High jump: without a valid height

• Simin Safamehr

  Long jump: 31st place

• Juliette Geverkof

  Shot put: 16th place

  Discus throw: 21st place

Cycling

• Mashallah Amin Sorour

  Road race: 81st place

  Team time trial: 22nd place

• Sayed Esmail Hosseini

  Road race: 99th place

  Team time trial: 22nd place

• Akbar Poudeh

  Road race: 101st place

  Team time trial: 22nd place

• Davoud Akhlagi

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 22nd place

Wrestling

• Ahmad Khoshoi

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Siavash Shafizadeh

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Rasoul Mir Malek

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Hossein Mollaghasemi

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Asghar Zoghian

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 4th round

• Ali Akbar Heidari

  Flyweight, freestyle: bronze

• Abdullah Khodabandeh

  Bantamweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour

  Featherweight, freestyle: 6th place

• Abdollah Movahed

  Lightweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Mohammad-Ali Sanatkaran

  Welterweight, freestyle: bronze

• Mansour Mehdizadeh

  Middleweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Gholamreza Takhti

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 4th place

shoot

• Nosratollah Momtahen

  Free pistol 50 m: 52nd place

• Wet Sharifi

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 53rd place

• Gholam Hossein Mobasser

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 61st place

• Mohammad Jafar Kalani

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 64th place

swim

• Haydar Shonjani

  100 m freestyle: eliminated in the preliminary run

do gymnastics

Men

• Jalal Bazargan-Vali

  Individual all-around: 118th place

  Floor: 123rd place

  Horse jump: 103rd place

  Bars: 116th place

  Horizontal bar: 116th place

  Rings: 116th place

  Pommel horse: 113th place

Women

• Jamileh Sorouri

  Individual all-around: 82nd place

  Floor: 83rd place

  Horse jump: 81st place

  Uneven bars: 82nd place

  Balance beam: 81st place

Diving

Men

• Manucher Fasihi

  Artistic jumping 3 m: 26th place

Web links

• Iranian Olympic team from 1964 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )