2004 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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The 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens were the 13th Summer Games with Iranian participation. The Iranian team consisted of 38 athletes, including one woman.

Medals

With two won gold, silver and bronze medals, the Iranian team finished 29th place in the medal table .

gold

• Hadi Saei - Taekwondo , 68 kg, men
• Hossein Rezazadeh - weightlifting +105 kg, men

silver

• Masoud Mostafa Jokar - wrestling , freestyle 60 kg, men
• Alireza Rezaei - wrestling , freestyle 120 kg, men

bronze

• Yossef Karami - Taekwondo , 80 kg, men
• Alireza Heidari - wrestling , freestyle 96 kg, men

Results by sport

Boxing

60 kg, men:

• Mohammad Asheri - retired

  Round of 32 BYES

  Round of 16 - Lost to Domenico Valentino of Italy , 37-18

Weightlifting

69 kg, men:

• Mehdi Panzvan - no placement

77 kg, men:

• Mohammad Hossein Barkhah - 6th, 357.5 kg

94 kg, men:

• Shahin Nasirinia - 4th, 392.5 kg
• Asghar Ebrahimi - 16., 355 kg

105 kg, men:

• Mohsen Biranvand - no placement

+105 kg, men:

• Hossein Rezazadeh - Gold , 472.5 kg

Judo

60 kg, men:

• Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh - 5th place

  Round of the last 64 - Bye

  Round of 32 - Defeated Jean Claude Cameroun of Cameroon by yuko

  Round of 16 - Defeated Armen Nazarjan of Armenia by yuko

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Revazi Zintiridis of Greece by ippon

  Semi-finals - Waza -ari lost to Nestor Khergiani of Georgia

  Battle for bronze - Choi Min-ho from South Korea was defeated by ippon

66 kg, men:

• Arash Miresmaeili - eliminated

  Round of 32 - Ehud Vaks from Israel defeated by walkover

73 kg, men:

• Hamed Malekmohammadi - eliminated

  Round of the last 64 BYES

  Round of 32 - Defeated Saso Jereb of Slovenia by ippon

  Round of 16 - Victor Bivol of Moldova was defeated by ippon

  Hope Run , Round of 32 - Defeated Richard Leon of Venezuela by ippon

  Hope run , round of 16 - João Neto from Portugal lost to ippon

81 kg, men:

• Reza Chah Khandagh - eliminated

  Round of 32 - Defeated Ricardo Echarte of Spain by Ippon

  Round of 16 - Roman Hontjuk of Ukraine was defeated by Ippon

  Hope run , round of 32 - Adil Belgaid of Morocco lost to yuko

90 kg, men:

• Abbas Fallah - eliminated

  Round of 32 - Keith Morgan of Canada was defeated by ippon

100 kg, men:

• Masoud Khosravinejad - eliminated

  Round of the last 64 BYES

  Round of 32 - Dmitry Maksimov of Russia was defeated by waza-ari

+100 kg, men:

• Mahmoud Miran - 5th place

  Round of the last 64 BYES

  Round of 32 - Defeated Joel Brutus of Haiti by ippon

  Round of 16 - Beat Selim Tataroğlu of Turkey by ippon

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Semir Pepic of Australia by ippon

  Semi-finals - Tamerlan Tmenow from Russia was defeated by ippon

  Battle for bronze - lost to Dennis van der Geest from the Netherlands by ippon

athletics

800 m, men:

• Sajjad Moradi - 61st place

  Round 1 - eliminated as 7th in the 6th preliminary run with 1: 49.5 min

Discus throwing, men:

• Abbas Samimi - 28th place

  Qualification - eliminated with 57.57 m

Cycling

Street

Street, men:

• Amir Zargari - Not finished
• Abbas Saeidi Tanha - Not finished

train

Individual pursuit, men:

• Hossein Askari - 15th place

  Qualification - 4: 39.302 min, eliminated

Points race, men:

• Mehdi Sohrabi - eliminated

Wrestling

Freestyle

55 kg, men:

• Babak Nourzad - 16th place

  Preliminary round - 3rd place in Pool C, eliminated

  Subject Bayaraagiin Naranbaatar from Mongolia , 6-0

  Defeated Kim Hyo-sub of South Korea , 6-4

60 kg, men:

• Masoud Mostafa Jokar - silver

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool E

  Defeated Sahit Prizreni of Albania , 8-0

  Defeated Bezik Aslanasvili of Greece , 3-2

  Quarter Finals BYE

  Semi-Finals - Defeated Kenji Inoue of Japan , 5-4

  Final - Yandro Miguel Quintana of Cuba lost 4-0

66 kg, men:

• Alireza Dabir - 18th place

  Preliminary round - 3rd place in Pool F, eliminated

  Subject Makhach Murtazaliev of Russia , 4-0

  Defeated Artur Tavkazakhov from Uzbekistan , 5-4

74 kg, men:

• Mehdi Hajizadeh - 13th place

  Preliminary round - 2nd place in Pool D, eliminated

  Defeated Gela Saghirashvili of Georgia , 7-5

  Lost to Joe Williams of the United States , 3-0

84 kg, men:

• Majid Khodaei - 5th place

  Preliminary round - 1st place in Pool A.

  Defeated Anuj Kumar of India , 5-1

  Defeated Hidekazu Yokoyama of Japan , 8-1

  Quarter-Finals - Cael Sanderson of the United States lost 6-5

  Battle for 5th place - defeat by Lazaros Loizidis from Greece , 3-0

96 kg, men:

• Alireza Heidari - bronze

  Preliminary round - 1st place in Pool D.

  Defeated Eldar Kurtanidze of Georgia , 3-2

  Defeated Antoine Jaoude of Brazil , 10-0

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Rustam Aghayev of Azerbaijan , 5-0

  Semi-finals - Magomed Ibragimov from Uzbekistan , 6-4

  Battle for Bronze - Defeated Daniel Cormier of the United States , 3-2

120 kg, men:

• Alireza Rezaei - bronze

  Preliminary round - 1st place in Pool F.

  Defeated Boschidar Boyadschiew of Bulgaria , 5-0

  Defeated Gelegschamtsyn Ösöchbajar from Mongolia , 3-0

  Defeated Barys Hrynkewitsch of Belarus , 7-0

  Quarterfinals - Bye

  Semifinals - Defeated Marid Mutalimov from Kazakhstan , 4-1

  Final - Artur Taymazov from Uzbekistan defeated

Greco-Roman

55 kg, men:

• Hassan Rangraz - 9th place

  Preliminary round - 2nd place in Pool B, eliminated

  Was defeated by Lázaro Rivas from Cuba , 6-4

  Defeated Samir Benchenaf of Algeria , 10-0

60 kg, men:

• Ali Ashkani - 11th place

  Preliminary round - 3rd place in Pool G, eliminated

  Lost to Roberto Monzón of Cuba, 4-1

  Defeated Seref Tufenk from Turkey , 3-1

  Defeated Christos Gikas of Greece , 6-1

66 kg, men:

• Parviz Zeidvand - disqualified

  Preliminary round - 1st place in Pool D.

  Defeated Kanatbek Begaliev of Kyrgyzstan , 5-0

  Defeated Moises Sanchez of Spain , 3-1

  Quarterfinals - underlay Farid Mansurov of Azerbaijan , 3-2

  Fight for 5th place - not started, disqualified

84 kg, men:

• Behrouz Jamshidi - 9th place

  Preliminary round - 2nd place in Pool C, eliminated

  Lost to Dimitrios Avramis of Greece, 3-1

  Defeated Fritz Aanes of Norway , 3-0

96 kg, men:

• Masoud Hashemzadeh - disqualified

  Preliminary round - 1st place in Pool D.

  Defeated Petru Sudureac of Romania , 2-2

  Defeated Mindaugas Ezerskis of Lithuania , Fall

  Quarterfinals - Kyrgyzstan Genadi Chhaidze defeated , 3-1

  Semi-finals - Ramas Nosadze of Georgia lost 4-2

  Battle for bronze - Mehmet Ozal from Turkey, 3-2, was disqualified

120 kg, men:

• Sajjad Barzi - 4th place

  Preliminary round - 1st place in pool B.

  Defeated Mihaly Deak-Bardos of Hungary , 3-1

  Defeated Juha Ahokas of Finland , 2-1

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Yannick Szczepaniak of France , 3-0

  Semi-finals - Khasan Baroyev of Russia lost 4-0

  Bronze Medal - underlay Rulon Gardner of the United States , 3-0

shoot

Air pistol 10 m, women:

• Nasim Hassanpour - 28th place

  Qualification - 376 points, eliminated

swim

Freestyle, 100 m, men:

• Babak Farhoudi - 61st place

  Prelims - 56.42 s, eliminated

Taekwondo

68 kg, men:

• Hadi Saei - gold

  Round of 16 - defeated Carlo Molfetta of Italy , referee ended the fight

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Diogo da Silva of Brazil , 8-6

  Semifinals - Defeated Song Myeong-seob of South Korea , 9-9

  Final - Defeated Huang Chih-hsiung of Taipei , China , 4-3

80 kg, men:

• Youssef Karami - bronze

  Round of 16 - Defeated Kriangkrai Noikoed from Thailand , 16-12

  Quarterfinals - Defeated Daniel Trenton of Australia , 13-9

  Semi-Finals - Steven Lopez of the United States lost 7-6

  Hope Run Semifinals - Defeated Hichem Hamdouni of Tunisia , 12-4

  Bronze medal match - defeated Rashad Ahmadov from Azerbaijan , 9-8

Table tennis

Singles, men:

• Mohammad Reza Akhlaghpasand - eliminated

  Round of 128 - Thiago Monteiro of Brazil lost 4-1

Official

• President: Mostafa Hashemi Taba
• Secretary General: Bahram Afsharzadeh

Web links

• The website NOCIRI
• Iranian Olympic team 2004 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )