2008 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iran)

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Iran participated in the 2008 Summer Olympics in the Chinese capital Beijing with 55 athletes, three women and 52 men.

Medals

gold

• Hadi Saei - Taekwondo , 80 kg

bronze

• Morad Mohammadi - wrestling , 60 kg

Results by sport

badminton

athlete	discipline	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	final
		Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	rank
Kaveh Mehrabi	Men / singles	Hsieh Yu-Hsin ( TPE ) 0: 2 (16:21 - 12:21)	eliminated

basketball

team

Ali Doraghi Amir Amini Javad Davari Mehdi Kamrani

Saeid Davarpanah Iman Zandi Hamed Afagh Hamed Sohrabnejad

Oshin Sahakian Mousa Nabipour Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Haddadi

Rajko Toroman (Head Coach)

Preliminary group A (men)

game	encounter	Q1	Q2	Q3	Q4	Result	rank	Best Iranian
1.	Russia vs. Iran	24: 5	14:17	8:16	25:11	71:49	6th	Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (16 pts.)
2.	Iran vs. Lithuania	20:15	14:21	19:28	14:25	67:99	6th	Hamed Hadadi (21 pts)
3.	Australia vs. Iran	28:15	25:14	22:19	31:20	106: 68	6th	Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (23 pts.)
4th	Iran vs. Argentina	14:19	19:23	24:30	25:25	82:97	6th	Hamed Hadadi (21 pts)
5.	Iran vs. Croatia	8:19	8:35	23:16	18:21	57:91	6th	Samad Nikkhah Bahrami (25 pts)

Archery

Men

athlete	discipline	Preliminary round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	final
		Points	rank	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	rank
Hojjatollah Vaezi	singles	604	63.	Mangal Singh Champia ( IND )	eliminated

Women

athlete	discipline	Preliminary round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	final
		Points	rank	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	Opponent points	rank
Najmeh abbot	singles	568	60.	Kwon Un Sil ( PRK )	eliminated

Boxing

athlete	discipline	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Battle for bronze	final
		Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result
Morteza Sepahvand	Light welterweight (men)	Hamza Hassini ( TUN ) 16 : 4	Ionuț Gheorghe ( ROM ) 8 : 4	Félix Díaz ( DOM ) 6: 11	eliminated
Mehdi Ghorbani	Light heavyweight (men)	Carlos Negron ( Puerto Rico ) 4: 13	eliminated
Ali Mazaheri	Heavyweight (men)		Rakhim Chakhkeiv ( RUS ) 3: 7	eliminated

Weightlifting

athlete	discipline	Tear		Bump		Bottom line	rank
		Result	rank	Result	rank
Asghar Ebrahimi	0094 kg (men)	180 kg	3.	212 kg	7th	392 kg	7th
Mohsen Biranvand	0105 kg (men)	180 kg	10.	210 kg	13.	390 kg	11.
Rashid Sharifi	+105 kg (men)	196 kg	6th	230 kg	7th	426 kg	6th

Judo

athlete	discipline	Preliminary round	Round of 32	Round of 16	1/4 final	1/2 finals	Reunion	Hope run 1/2 final	Reunion finals	Battle for bronze	final
		Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result
Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh	060 kg (men)		Rok Drakšič ( SLO ) 0110 -0010	Choi Min-ho ( KOR ) 0000 1000			Miguel Albarracin ( ARG ) 0020 -0002	Rishod Sobirov ( UZB ) 0001- 0010	eliminated
Ārash Miresmāeli	066 kg (men)		Tomasz Adamiec ( POL ) 0001 -0000	Masato Uchishiba ( JPN ) 0000- 0020			Juan Jacinto ( DOM ) 0011 -0000	Mirali Sharipov ( UZB ) 0001- 0010	eliminated
Ali Maloumat	073 kg (men)		Yusuke Kanamaru ( JPN ) 1001 -0001	Joao Pina ( PRT ) 0111 -0001	Gantömöriin Daschdawaa ( MNG ) 1100 -0010	Elnur Mammadli ( AZE ) 0000- 1000	eliminated
Hamed Malekmohammadi	081 kg (men)		Aljaž Sedej ( SLO ) 1000 -0000	Tiago Camilo ( BRA ) 0000- 1010	eliminated
Hossein Ghomi	090 kg (men)		Andrej Kasussjonak ( BLR ) 0000 1110	eliminated
Mohammad Reza Roudaki	+100 kg (men)	Lasha Gujejiani ( GEO ) 0000- 0011						Daniel McCormick ( USA ) 1001 -0001	Tamerlan Tmenow ( RUS ) 1010 -0001	Óscar Brayson ( CUB ) 0001- 0200

athletics

Different disciplines (men)

athlete	discipline	leader		Semifinals		final
		Result	rank	Result	rank	Result	rank
Ehsan Mohajer Shojaei	800 meter run	1: 49.25	8th.	eliminated
Sajjad Moradi	800 meter run	1: 46.10	6th	1: 46.08	5.	eliminated
Amin Nikfar	Shot put	3 unsuccessful attempts	23.	eliminated
Ehsan Hadadi	Discus throw	61.34 m	7th	eliminated
Abbas Samimi	Discus throw	59.92 m	14th	eliminated

Decathlon (men)

Hadi Sepehrzad :

discipline	Group / run	result	rank	Points
100 meter run	5th run	10:92	1.	878
Long jump	Group A	6.80 m	13.	767
Shot put	Group B	16.02 m	2.	852
high jump	Group A	1.90 m	13.	714
400 meter run	4th run	50:75	3.	780
110 meter hurdles	1st run	14:64	2.	894
Discus throw	Group B	50.32 m	1.	877
Pole vault	Group A	4.00 m	11.	617
Javelin throw	Group A	49.56 m	10.	582
1500 meter run	2nd run	5: 06.07	11.	522
result			22nd	7483

Cycling

athlete	discipline	time	rank
Hossein Askari	Road racing (men)	6h 34 '22 (+10: 33)	52.
	Time trial stage (men)	1h 8 '46 (+6: 34)	35.
Ghader Mizbani	Road racing (men)	6h 39 '42 (+15: 53)	79.
Mahdi Sohrabi	Road racing (men)	not finished

Wrestling

Freestyle

athlete	discipline	qualification	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Hoped for 1st round	Hoped for 2nd round	Battle for bronze	final
		Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result
Abbas Dabbaghi	055 kg		Fredy Serrano ( COL ) 3 : 1	Bessik Kuduchow ( RUS ) 0: 3	eliminated
Morad Mohammadi (bronze )	060 kg		Hassan Madani ( EGY ) 3 : 0	Saeed Azarbayjani ( CAN ) 3 : 0	Mawlet Alawdinowitsch Batirow ( RUS ) 0: 3			Zelimkhan Huseynov ( AZE ) 3 : 1
Mehdi Taghavi	066 kg		Garcia Veranes ( CAN ) 3 : 1	Ramazan Şahin ( TUR ) 0: 3			Geandry Garzón Caballero ( CUB ) 1: 3	eliminated
Meisam Jokar	074 kg		Kiril Tersiew ( BUL ) 1: 3	eliminated
Reza Yazdani	084 kg	Radoslav Horbik ( POL ) 3 : 1	Naurus Temresow ( AZE ) 0: 5	eliminated
Saeid Ebrahimi	096 kg		Saleh Emara ( EGY ) 3 : 1	George Gogshelidze ( GEO ) 0: 3	eliminated
Fardin Masoumi Valadi	120 kg	Lawrence Langowski ( MEX ) 4 : 0	Bakhtiyar Akhmedov ( RUS ) 0: 5			Boschidar Boyadschiev ( BUL ) 3 : 1	Steve Mocco ( USA ) 3 : 1	Marid Mutalimov ( KAZ ) 1: 3

Greco-Roman

athlete	discipline	qualification	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Hoped for 1st round	Hoped for 2nd round	Battle for bronze	final
		Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result
Hamid Sourian	055 kg	VENELIN VENKOV ( BUL ) 5 : 0	Tulop Elwais ( PLW ) 4 : 0	Nazir Mankiev ( RUS ) 1: 3			Kristijan Friš ( SRB ) 3 : 1	Park Eun-chul ( KOR ) 1: 3
Ali Mohammadi	066 kg	Min-Chul Kim ( KOR ) 2 : 0	Mikhail Siamionov ( BLR ) 1: 2	eliminated
Saman Tahmasebi	084 kg		Oleksandr Daragan ( UKR ) 3 : 1	Nazmi Avluca ( TUR ) 1: 3	eliminated
Ghasem Rezaei	096 kg	Mindaugas Ezerskis ( LTU ) 1: 3	eliminated
Masoud Hashemzadeh	120 kg		Khasan Baroev ( RUS ) 0: 3				Mindaugas Mizgaitis ( LTU ) 1: 3	eliminated

rowing

Men

Athlete (s)	discipline	Passages		rank
		time	rank
Mohsen Shadi Naghdeh	One	7: 48.24	5.	26th

Women

Athlete (s)	discipline	Passages		rank
		time	rank
Homa Hosseini	One	9: 02.12	4th	28.

swim

athlete	discipline	Passage		Semifinals		final
		time	rank	time	rank	time	rank
Mohammad Alirezaei	100 m breaststroke (men)	not started

Taekwondo

Men

athlete	discipline	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Hope run quarterfinals	Hope run semifinals	final
		Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result
Reza Naderian	58 kg	Marcio Ferreira ( BRA ) 1: 2	eliminated
Hadi Saei (gold )	80 kg	Bista Deepak ( Nepal ) 7 : 0	Guo Zhu ( CHN ) 3 : 2	Rashad Ahmadov ( AZE ) 4 : 1			Mauro Sarmiento ( ITA ) 6 : 4

Women

athlete	discipline	Round of 16	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Hope run quarterfinals	Hope run semifinals	final
		Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result
Sara Khoshjamal Fekri	49 kg	Ghizlane Toudali ( MAR ) 5 : 0	Yang Shu-chun ( TPE ) 0: 2	eliminated

Table tennis

athlete	discipline	Preliminary round	Round 1	round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Quarter finals	Semifinals	final
		Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result	Opponent result
Afshin Noroozi	Men / singles	Mihai Bobocica ( ITA ) 2: 4	eliminated

Web links

• Iranian National Olympic Committee
• Iranian Olympic team 2008 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )