1976 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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Iran participated in the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal with a delegation of 84 athletes (80 men and 4 women) in 50 competitions in nine sports.

The Iranian athletes each won a silver and a bronze medal, putting Iran in 33rd place in the medal table. The wrestler Mansour Barzegar won the silver medal in freestyle wrestling of the welterweight division, while weightlifter Mohammad Nassiri secured bronze . The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the Muslim wrestler Eskandar-Filabi .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Sayed Bashiri

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Behzad Ghaedi

  Featherweight: eliminated in the second round

• Parviz Bahmani

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Ali Bahri Khomani

  Welterweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Mohamed Azar Hazin

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Parviz Badpa

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

fencing

Men

• Hossein Niknam

  Foil: 33rd place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Ahmed Akbari

  Foil: 38th place

  Foil team: 9th place

  Saber team: 9th place

• Ali Asghar Pashapour

  Foil: 38th place

  Foil team: 9th place

  Epee team: 11th place

• Sarkis Assatourian

  Epee: 32nd place

  Foil team: 9th place

  Epee team: 11th place

• Iraj Dastgerdi

  Epee: 49th place

  Epee team: 11th place

• Esfandihar Zarnegar

  Epee: 58th place

  Epee team: 11th place

• Ismail Pashapour

  Saber: 34th place

  Saber team: 9th place

• Ahmed Eskandarpour

  Saber: 37th place

  Saber team: 9th place

• Abdul Hamid Fathi

  Saber: 43rd place

  Saber team: 9th place

Women

• Jhila Al-Masi

  Foil: 37th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Gitty Moheban

  Foil: 42nd place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Mahvash Shafaie

  Foil: 45th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Mariam Atchak

  Foil team: 9th place

Soccer

Men

• Eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Nasrollah Abdollahi

  Andranik Eskandarian

  Ebrahim Ghassempour

  Wet Hejazi

  Ghafour Jahani

  Ali Reza Khorshidi

  Gholam Mazloomi

  Sahameddin Mir Fakhraie

  Hassan Nayebagha

  Hassan Nazari

  Wet nouraie

  Ali Parvin

  Parviz Qelichkhani

  Hassan Roshan

  Bijan Zolfaghar Nasab

Weightlifting

• Mohammad Nassiri

  Flyweight: bronze

• Fazlollah Dehkhoda

  Bantamweight: 8th place

• Feyzollah Nasseri

  Bantamweight: 10th place

• Davoud Maleki

  Featherweight: 6th place

• Mehdi Attar Ashrafi

  Middleweight: 13th place

• Houshang Kargarnejad

  Heavyweight: 17th place

• Ali Valli

  Heavyweight: competition not over

athletics

Men

• Ayoub Bodaghi

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Hossein Rabbi

  5000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

  10,000 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Teymour Ghiassi

  High jump: 22nd place

• Salman Hessam

  Discus throw: 28th place

Cycling

• Mohamed Ali Acha-Cheloi

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Hassan Aryanfard

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 24th place

• Asghar Khodayari

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 24th place

• Mahmoud Delshad

  Road Race: Race not finished

• Khosro Haghgosha

  Team time trial: 24th place

• Gholam Hossein Koohi

  Team time trial: 24th place

  Track 4000 m single pursuit: race not finished

• Masoud Mobaraki

  Track 1000 m time trial: 25th place

Wrestling

• Khalil Rashid Mohamed Zadeh

  Paper weight, Greco-Roman: 8th place

• Morad Ali Shirani

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Gholam Reza Ghassab

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

• Jafar Alizadeh

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

• Houshang Montazeralzohour

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

• Hashem Kolahi

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Bahram Moshtaghi

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

• Sobhan Rouhi

  Paper weight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Habib Fatah-Gharalar

  Flyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Ramezan Kheder

  Bantamweight, freestyle: 5th place

• Mohsen Farahvash

  Featherweight, freestyle: 4th place

• Mohamed Reza Navaei

  Lightweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 4th round

• Mansour Barzegar

  Welterweight, freestyle: silver

• Mohamed Hassan Mohebbi

  Middleweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Ali Reza Soleimani

  Light heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Reza Sokhtesaraie

  Heavyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Muslim Eskandar-Filabi

  Super heavyweight, freestyle: 7th place

shoot

• Mohammad Alidjani-Momer

  Trap: 41st place

• Houshang Ghazvini

  Trap: 43rd place

• Esfandiar Lari

  Skeet: 54th place

• Kamil Jafari

  Skeet: 62nd place

Water polo

Men

• 12th place

  Firouz Abdul Mohammadian

  Jahangir Tavakoli

  Haydar Shonjani

  Ahmed Paidayesh

  Darioush Mohammadi

  Bahram Tavakoli

  Kamran Firouzpour

  Manouchehr Parchami-Araghi

  Hussain Nassim

  Abdul Reza Majdpour

  Ahmed Yaghoti

Web links

• Iranian Olympic team from 1976 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )