Iran at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro | ||||||||||||
| Competitors | 47 in 12 sports | |||||||||||
| Flag bearer | Zahra Nemati[1] | |||||||||||
| Medals | Gold 0 |
Silver 0 |
Bronze 0 |
Total 0 |
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| Olympic history (summary) | ||||||||||||
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Iran (officially the Islamic Republic of Iran) is scheduled to compete at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation has made its debut in 1948, Iranian athletes have participated in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics.
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Competitors
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Athletics | 6 | 1 | 7 |
| Boxing | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Cycling | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Fencing | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Judo | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| Rowing | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Shooting | 1 | 4 | 5 |
| Table tennis | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Taekwondo | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| Weightlifting | 5 | 0 | 5 |
| Wrestling | 12 | 0 | 12 |
| Total | 38 | 9 | 47 |
Archery
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One Iranian archer qualified for the women's individual recurve by obtaining one of the three Olympic places available from the 2015 Asian Archery Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.[2]
| Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Score | Seed | Opposition Score |
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| Zahra Nemati | Women's individual | |||||||||
Athletics
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Iranian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[3][4]
- Men's 100 m – 2 quota places (Reza Ghasemi, Hassan Taftian)
- Men's marathon – 1 quota place (Mohammad Jafar Moradi)
- Men's discus throw – 2 quota places (Ehsan Haddadi, Mahmoud Samimi)
- Men's 20 km walk – 1 quota place (Hamid Reza Zouravand)
- Women's shot put – 1 quota place (Leila Rajabi)
Boxing
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Iran has entered one boxer to compete in the men's light heavyweight division into the Olympic boxing tournament. 2012 Olympian Ehsan Rouzbahani was the only Iranian finishing among the top two of his respective division in the AIBA Pro Boxing series.[5][6]
- Men
| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result |
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| Ehsan Rouzbahani | Light heavyweight | ||||||
Cycling
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Road
Iranian riders qualified for a maximum of three quota places in the men's Olympic road race by virtue of their top 4 national ranking in the 2015 UCI Asia Tour.[7]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's road race | |||
| Men's road race | |||
| Men's time trial |
Fencing
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Following the completion of the Grand Prix finals, Iran has entered two fencers into the Olympic competition. Sabre fencers Ali Pakdaman and 2012 Olympian Mojtaba Abedini had claimed their spots on the Iranian team by finishing among the top 14 individuals in the FIE Adjusted Official Rankings.[8]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Mojtaba Abedini | Men's sabre | ||||||
| Ali Pakdaman | |||||||
Judo
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Iran has qualified three judokas for each of the following weight classes at the Games. Saeid Mollaei and London 2012 Olympian Javad Mahjoub were ranked among the top 22 eligible judokas for men in the IJF World Ranking List of May 30, 2016, while Alireza Khojasteh at men's half-lightweight (66 kg) earned a continental quota spot from the Asian region, as Iran's top-ranked judoka based on World Ranking points.[9]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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| Alireza Khojasteh | Men's −66 kg | ||||||||
| Saeid Mollaei | Men's −81 kg | ||||||||
| Javad Mahjoub | Men's −100 kg | ||||||||
Rowing
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Iran has qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2016 Asia & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea.[10]
| Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
| Mahsa Javar | Women's single sculls | ||||||||||
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Shooting
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Iranian shooters have achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2015 ISSF World Cup series, and Asian Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by March 31, 2016.[11]
- Men
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Pouria Norouzian | 10 m air rifle | ||||
| 50 m rifle 3 positions | |||||
- Women
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
| Elaheh Ahmadi | 10 m air rifle | N/A | |||||
| 50 m rifle 3 positions | N/A | ||||||
| Mahlagha Jambozorg | 50 m rifle 3 positions | N/A | |||||
| Najmeh Khedmati | 10 m air rifle | N/A | |||||
| Golnoush Sebghatollahi | 10 m air pistol | N/A | |||||
| 25 m pistol | |||||||
Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)
Table tennis
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Iran has entered three athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. Nima Alamian and 2012 Olympian Neda Shahsavari secured the Olympic spot each in the men's and women's singles as the highest-ranked table tennis player coming from the Middle Asia zone, while Nima's elder brother Noshad Alamian scored a second-stage victory to take the remaining spot on the Iranian team at the Asian Qualification Tournament in Hong Kong.[12]
| Athlete | Event | Preliminary round | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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| Nima Alamian | Men's singles | |||||||||
| Noshad Alamian | ||||||||||
| Neda Shahsavari | Women's singles | |||||||||
Taekwondo
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Iran entered four athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Olympics. Farzan Ashourzadeh, Mehdi Khodabakhshi, and Sajjad Mardani qualified automatically for their respective weight classes by finishing in the top 6 WTF Olympic rankings.[13] Meanwhile, Kimia Alizadeh was the only Iranian female finishing among the top two in the women's lightweight category (57 kg) at the 2016 Asian Qualification Tournament in Manila, Philippines.[14]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Bronze Medal | Final | |
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| Farzan Ashourzadeh | Men's −58 kg | |||||||
| Mehdi Khodabakhshi | Men's −80 kg | |||||||
| Sajjad Mardani | Men's +80 kg | |||||||
| Kimia Alizadeh | Women's −57 kg | |||||||
Weightlifting
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Iranian weightlifters have qualified five men's quota places for the Rio Olympics based on their combined team standing by points at the 2014 and 2015 IWF World Championships. The team must allocate these places to individual athletes by June 20, 2016.
| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
Wrestling
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Iran has qualified a total of twelve wrestlers for each the following weight classes into the Olympic competition. Majority of Olympic berths were awarded to Iranian wrestlers, who finished among the top six at the 2015 World Championships, while two other wrestlers progressed to the top two finals to book Olympic spots each in the men's freestyle 120 kg and men's Greco-Roman 66 kg at the 2016 Asian Qualification Tournament.[15]
Two further wrestlers had claimed the remaining Olympic slots to round out the Iranian roster in separate World Qualification Tournaments; one of them in men's Greco Roman 120 kg at the initial meet in Ulaanbaatar, and the other in men's Greco-Roman 59 kg at the final meet in Istanbul.
Key:
- VT - Victory by Fall.
- PP - Decision by Points - the loser with technical points.
- PO - Decision by Points - the loser without technical points.
- Men's freestyle
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result |
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| Hassan Rahimi | −57 kg | ||||||||
| −65 kg | |||||||||
| Hassan Yazdani | −74 kg | ||||||||
| Alireza Karimi | −86 kg | ||||||||
| −97 kg | |||||||||
| Komeil Ghasemi | −125 kg | ||||||||
- Men's Greco-Roman
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result |
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| Hamid Sourian | −59 kg | ||||||||
| Omid Norouzi | −66 kg | ||||||||
| Saeid Abdevali | −75 kg | ||||||||
| −85 kg | |||||||||
| −98 kg | |||||||||
| −130 kg | |||||||||
See also
References
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