1972 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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The Iran participated in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich in part with a delegation of 48 male athletes in 33 competitions in seven sports. The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the wrestler Abdollah Movahed .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Manuchehr Bahmani

  Bantamweight: 2nd round

• Jabar Feli

  Featherweight: 2nd round

• Hassan Eghmaz

  Lightweight: 2nd round

• Nosra Vakil Monfard

  Light welterweight: 1st round

• Vartex Parsanian

  Welterweight: Round of 16

fencing

• Ali Asghar Pashapour-Alamdari

  Foil, singles: preliminary round

  Epee, singles: preliminary round

• Pirouz Adamiyat

  Epee, singles: preliminary round

Soccer

• Group stage

• Squad
  • goal

  1 Reza Ghoflsaz

  19 Mansour Rashidi

  • Defense

  2 Ebrahim Ashtiyani

  3 Jafar Ashraf Kashani

  4 Magid Halvaei

  5 Akbar Kargarjam

  17 Javad Allahverdi

  18 Mehdi Monajati

  • midfield

  6 Parviz Ghelichkhani

  7 Ali Parvin

  8 Ali Jabbari

  9 Mohamad Sadeghi

  12 Gholam Vafakhah

  13 Javad Ghorab

  16 Alireza Azizi

  • Storm

  10 Safar Iranpak

  11 Asghar Sharafi

  14 Mahmoud Khordbeen

  15 Mehdi Lari Lavasani

Weightlifting

• Arjomand Mohamed Nasehi

  Flyweight: Disqualified for doping

• Mohammad Nassiri

  Bantam weight: silver

• Nasrollah Dehnavi

  Lightweight: 5th place

athletics

• Reza Entezari

  400 meters: quarter-finals

  800 meters: heats

• Teymour Ghiassi

  High jump: 25th place in qualification

• Farhan Navab

  100 meters: heats

Cycling

• Behrouz Rahbar

  1000 meter time trial: 28th place

• Khosro Haghgosha

  4000 meter single pursuit: 25th place in qualification

• Khosro Haghgosha , Mohamed Khodavand , Gholam Hossein Koohi & Behrouz Rahbar

  100 kilometers team time trial: 32nd place

  4000 meters team pursuit: 22nd place in qualification

Wrestling

• Rahim Aliabadi

  Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: silver

• Mahdi Houryar

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman. 2nd round

• Firouz Alizadeh

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: Withdrawal after 1st round

• Mohammad Dalirian

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: 3rd round

• Ibrahim Javadi

  Light flyweight, freestyle: bronze

• Mohammad Ghorbani

  Flyweight, freestyle: retreat after 1st round

• Ramezan Kheder

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 7th place

• Shamseddin Seyyed Abbasi

  Featherweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Abdollah Movahed

  Lightweight, freestyle: retreat after 1st round

• Mansour Barzegar

  Welterweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Ali Hagilou

  Middleweight, freestyle: 3rd round

• Reza Khorrami

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Abolfazl Anvari

  Heavyweight, freestyle: 4th round

• Muslim Eskandar-Filabi

  Super heavyweight, freestyle: 4th place

Web links

• Iranian Olympic team from 1972 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )