1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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Iran participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 14 male athletes in 14 competitions in three sports.

The Iranian athletes won two gold, one silver and two bronze medals. Olympic champions were weightlifter Mohammad Nassiri in bantamweight and freestyle wrestler Abdollah Movahed in lightweight. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Abolfazl Anvari .

Participants by sport

Weightlifting

• Mohammad Nassiri

  Bantamweight: gold

• Nasrollah Dehnavi

  Featherweight: 6th place

• Parviz Jalayer

  Lightweight: silver

• Daniel Gevargiz Nejad

  Middleweight: without a valid attempt

athletics

Men

• Joe Kashmiri

  Discus throw: 20th place

Wrestling

• Hossein Moarreb

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Mohammad Ghorbani

  Flyweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Aboutaleb Talebi

  Bantamweight, freestyle: bronze

• Shamseddin Seyed Abbasi

  Featherweight, freestyle: bronze

• Abdollah Movahed

  Lightweight, freestyle: gold

• Ali Mohammad Momeni

  Welterweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Mansour Mehdizadeh

  Middleweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 1st round

• Muslim Eskandar-Filabi

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Abolfazl Anvari

  Heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

Web links

• Iranian Olympic team from 1968 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )