2000 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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The Iran participated in the Summer Olympics in 2000 in the Australian city of Sydney with 35 athletes, one woman and 34 men in twelve sports part.

Since 1900 it was the thirteenth participation of the Asian state in the Summer Olympics .

Flag bearer

Wrestler Amir Reza Khadem carried the flag of Iran during the opening ceremony at the Australia Stadium .

Medals

With three won gold and a bronze medal, the Iranian team finished 27th place in the medal table .

gold

• Hossein Tavakoli - weightlifting , 105 kg
• Hossein Rezazadeh - weightlifting , +105 kg
• Alireza Dabir - wrestling , freestyle 58 kg

bronze

• Hadi Saei - Taekwondo , 68 kg

Participants by sport

Boxing

51 kg, men:

• Mohammad Rahim Rahimi - eliminated

  1st round - defeat Drissa Tou from Burkina Faso

57 kg, men:

• Bijan Batmani - eliminated

  1st round - lost to Ricardo Juarez of the United States , referee ended bout

63.5 kg, men:

• Anoushirvan Nourian - eliminated

  1st round - defeated Olusegun Ajose from Nigeria

67 kg, men:

• Babak Moghimi - eliminated

  1st round - defeat Sherzod Husanov from Uzbekistan , 15: 5

91 kg, men:

• Rouhollah Hosseini - eliminated

  Round of 16 - Mark Simmons from Canada lost 11: 6

Weightlifting

62 kg, men:

• Mehdi Panzvan - 5th place, 302.5 kg

77 kg, men:

• Mohammad Hossein Barkhah - no placement

85 kg, men:

• Shahin Nasirinia - no placement

94 kg, men:

• Kourosh Bagheri - 4th place, 402.5 kg

105 kg, men:

• Hossein Tavakoli - Gold , 425 kg

+105 kg, men:

• Hossein Rezazadeh - Gold , 472.5 kg

Judo

66 kg, men:

• Ārash Miresmāeli - 5th place

  Round of the last 64 BYES

  Round of 32 - Hüseyin Özkan from Turkey was defeated by waza-ari

  Hope run round of 32 - Defeated Georgi Georgiev from Bulgaria by ippon

  Hope Run Round of 16 - Defeated Zhang Guangjun of China by ippon

  Hope Run Quarterfinals - Defeated Yukimasa Nakamura of Japan by ippon

  Bronze medal match - Girolamo Giovinazzo from Italy was defeated by yuko

81 kg, men:

• Kazem Sarikhani - 7th place

  Round of the last 64 BYES

  Round of 32 - Defeated Brahima Guindo of Mali by ippon

  Round of 16 - Defeated Graeme Randall of Great Britain by ippon

  Quarter-finals - Nuno Delgado from Portugal lost to ippon

  Hope Run Round of 16 - Defeated Daniel Kelly of Australia by ippon

  Hope run quarter-finals - Aleksei Budõlin from Estonia lost to ippon

+100 kg, men:

• Mahmoud Miran - eliminated

  Round of the last 64 BYES

  Round of 32 - Frank Möller from Germany was defeated by koka

canoe

Flatwater

Single kayak 500 m:

• Nader Eivazi - 29th place

  Prelims - 8th place in preliminary 3, 1: 49.306 min, eliminated

Single kayak 1000 m:

• Nader Eivazi - 31st place

  Prelims - 8th place in preliminary 2, 3: 59.767 min, eliminated

athletics

800 m:

• Mehdi Jelodarzadeh - 35th place

  Round 1 - 6th place in preliminary run 6, 1: 47.91 min, eliminated

Cycling

Road racing:

• Hossein Askari - not finished
• Ahad Kazemi - not finished

horse riding

Individual show jumping:

• Ali Nilforoushan - 56th place

  Qualification - 50.50 penalty points, eliminated

Wrestling

Freestyle

54 kg, men:

• Behnam Tayyebi - 13th place

  Preliminary round - 3rd place in Pool 6, eliminated

  Defeated Tümendembereliin Dsüünbajan from Mongolia , 3-2

  Subject Amiran Karndanof from Greece , 7: 0

  Backing Vitalie Railean from Moldova , 2: 1

58 kg, men:

• Alireza Dabir - gold

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 1

  Defeated Talata Embalo from Guinea-Bissau , 10-0

  Defeated Guivi Sissaouri of Canada , 3-0

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Ojuunbilegiin Pürewbaatar from Mongolia , 5-2

  Semifinals - Defeated Terry Brands from the United States , 6: 4

  Final - Defeated Yevgen Buslovych of Ukraine , 3-0

63 kg, men:

• Mohammad Talaee - 4th place

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 3

  Defeated Cary Kolat of the United States , 5-4

  Defeated Ramil Islamov from Uzbekistan

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Arshak Hajrapetjan from Armenia , 3-2

  Semi-finals - Serafim Barsakow from Bulgaria lost 4-0

  Bronze medal match - defeat Jang Jae-sung from South Korea , 12: 2

69 kg, men:

• Amir Tavakkolian - 10th place

  Preliminary round - 2nd place in Pool 1, eliminated

  Defeated Emsar Bedineishvili from Georgia , 5-4

  Lost to Daniel Igali of Canada , 2-2

76 kg, men:

• Pejman Dorostkar - 12th place

  Preliminary round - 2nd place in Pool 2, eliminated

  Defeated Tümen-Öldsiin Mönchbajar from Mongolia , 3-0

  Lost to Gennadi Lalijew from Kazakhstan , 3: 1

85 kg, men:

• Amir Reza Khadem - 4th place

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 6

  Defeated Nicolae Ghiţă from Romania , 5-3

  Defeated Akesse Aka from Ivory Coast , 4-0

  Defeated Gábor Kápuvari from Hungary , 5-3

  Quarter Finals BYE

  Semi-finals - Yoel Romero from Cuba lost 3-0

  Bronze medal match - defeat Mogamed Ibragimov from Macedonia , 4: 1

97 kg, men:

• Alireza Heidari - 6th place

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 2

  Defeated Rolf Scherrer from Switzerland , 7-1

  Defeated Ahmet Doğu from Turkey , 6-1

  Quarter-finals - Eldari Luka Kurtanidze from Georgia lost 1-0

  5th place match - subject Aftandil Xanthopoulos from Greece

130 kg, men:

• Abbas Jadidi - 4th place

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 6

  Defeated Efstathios Topalidis from Greece , 9-1

  Defeated Aleksi Modebadse from Georgia , 4-0

  Quarter Finals BYE

  Semi-finals - David Musuľbes from Russia lost 3-0

  Bronze medal match - defeat Alexis Rodríguez Valera from Cuba , 1-0

Greco-Roman

54 kg, men:

• Hassan Rangraz - 14th place

  Preliminary round - 2nd place in Pool 3, eliminated

  Defeated Petr Švehla from the Czech Republic , 8-2

  Lost to Wang Hui of China , 8-2

58 kg, men:

• Ali Ashkani - 5th place

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool 2

  Defeated István Majoros from Hungary , 5-1

  Defeated Koba Guliashvili from Georgia , 7-0

  Quarter-finals - Kim In-sub of South Korea lost 3-1

  5th Place Match - Defeated James Gruenwald of the United States , 3-2

69 kg, men:

• Parviz Zeidvand - 16th place

  Preliminary round - 3rd place in Pool 3, eliminated

  Was defeated by Islam Duguchiev from Azerbaijan , 5-0

  Lost to Juha Lappalainen from Finland , 2-1

shoot

Air pistol 10 m, women:

• Manijeh Kazemi - 43rd place

  Qualification - 362 points, eliminated

swim

100 m freestyle:

• Hamidreza Mobarrez - 65th place

  Heats - 54.12 s, eliminated

Taekwondo

68 kg, men:

• Hadi Saei - bronze

  Round of 16 - Defeated Hsu Chi-Hung from Chinese Taipei , 5-2

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Alejandro Hernando from Argentina , 3: 0

  Semi-finals - Sin Joon-Sik from South Korea lost 5: 3

  Reunion semi-finals - defeated Carlo Massimino of Australia , 6-5

  Battle for bronze - defeated Tuncay Çalışkan from Austria , 4-2

80 kg, men:

• Majid Aflaki - eliminated

  Round of 16 - Victor Manuel Estrada of Mexico lost 4-3

Table tennis

Singles:

• Majid Reza Ehteshamzadeh - eliminated

  Group stage - 3rd place in Group J, eliminated

  Lost to Trinko Keen from the Netherlands , 3-0

  Was defeated by Daniel Tsiokas from Greece , 3-0

Web links

• The website NOCIRI
• Iranian Olympic team 2000 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )