Iran at the 1964 Summer Olympics

Iran at the 1964 Summer Olympics
IOC code	IRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (Persian) (English)
in Tokyo
Competitors	63 in 10 sports
Flag bearer	Nosratollah Shahmir
Medals Ranked 34th	Gold Silver Bronze Total 0 0 2 2
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
1900 1904–1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980–1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016

Iran competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan. 63 athletes represented Iran in the 1964 Olympics.^[1]

Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Aquatics, Diving	1		1
Aquatics, Swimming	1		1
Athletics	5	3	8
Boxing	5		5
Cycling, Road	4		4
Fencing	4		4
Football	17		17
Gymnastics, Artistic	1	1	2
Shooting	4		4
Weightlifting	5		5
Wrestling	12		12
Total	59	4	63

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Wrestling			2	2
Total	0	0	2	2

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Bronze	Ali Akbar Heidari	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg
Bronze	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 78 kg

Results by event

Aquatics

Diving

Men^[2]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Manouchehr Fasihi	3 m springboard	67.20	26	Did not advance

Swimming

Men^[3]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Heidar Shonjani	100 m freestyle	1:02.1	66	Did not advance

Athletics

Men^[4]

Athlete	Event	1st round			2nd round			Semifinal			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Akbar Babakhanloo	100 m	6	Did not start		Did not advance								—
Abdolvahab Shahkhoreh	200 m	5	22.3	7	Did not advance								48
Hossein Ghafourizadeh	400 m	7	50.8	8	Did not advance								50
Ebrahim Yazdanpanah	800 m	1	1:54.7	6				Did not advance					39
	1500 m	2	3:54.8	8				Did not advance					34
	5000 m	2	Did not start								Did not advance		—

Athlete	Event	Qualification round		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Jalal Keshmiri	Discus throw	45.24	26	Did not advance

Women^[5]

Athlete	Event	1st round			2nd round			Semifinal			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Simin Safamehr	100 m	2	13.2	7	Did not advance								43

Athlete	Event	Qualification round		Final
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Nazli Bayatmakoo	High jump	No mark		Did not advance
Simin Safamehr	Long jump	5.06	31	Did not advance
Juliet Gevorgian	Shot put	9.17	16	Did not advance
	Discus throw	30.05	21	Did not advance

Boxing

Men^[6]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Nasser Aghaei	51 kg		Choh (KOR) L Disqualification	Did not advance				17
Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh	54 kg		Fabila (MEX) L 2–3	Did not advance				17
Hassan Pakandam	60 kg	Bye	Pilichev (BUL) L RSC	Did not advance				17
Keramat Nadimi	63.5 kg	Bye	Gopalan (MAS) W RSC	da Silva (BRA) L 2–3	Did not advance			9
Mahmoud Pourroudsari	67 kg		Hamada (JPN) L 0–5	Did not advance				17

Cycling

Road

Men^[7]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Davoud Akhlaghi	Road race	Did not finish
Mashallah Aminsorour	Road race	−1 lap	72
Esmaeil Hosseini	Road race	−1 lap	78
Akbar Poudeh	Road race	−1 lap	80
Davoud Akhlaghi Mashallah Aminsorour Esmaeil Hosseini Akbar Poudeh	Team time trial	2:43:39.16	22

Fencing

Men^[8]

Athlete	Event	1st round		2nd round		3rd round	4th round	Quarterfinal	Final	Rank
		Pools	Rank	Pools	Rank
Houshmand Almasi	Individual épée	Pellegrino (ITA) L 1–5	Pool E 9	Did not advance						65
		Bar (SUI) L 1–5
		Vergara (CHI) L 1–5
		Hecke (EUA) L 4–5
		Bourquard (FRA) L 2–5
		Tamayo (COL) L 3–5
		Abrahamsson (SWE) L 3–5
		Han (KOR) W 5–4
	Individual foil	Granieri (ITA) L 0–5	Pool E 6	Did not advance						46
		Tabuchi (JPN) L 3–5
		Revenu (FRA) L 1–5
		Abdelrahman (EGY) L 1–5
		Andru (CAN) L 4–5
	Individual sabre	Shibata (JPN) L 2–5	Pool C 6	Did not advance			Did not advance			41
		Piątkowski (POL) L 0–5
		Orley (USA) L 1–5
		Foxcroft (CAN) L 3–5
		Calarese (ITA) L 2–5
Bijan Zarnegar	Individual épée	Jacobs (GBR) L 3–5	Pool C 8	Did not advance						57
		Nielaba (POL) L 0–5
		Serp (ARG) L 1–5
		Kostava (URS) L 0–5
		Lindwall (SWE) L 1–5
		Gemayel (LIB) L 3–5
		Bouchier (IRL) L 2–5
	Individual foil	Courtillat (FRA) L 0–5	Pool F 6	Did not advance						46
		Hoskyns (GBR) L 2–5
		Nannini (ARG) L 1–5
		Ryan (IRL) L 4–5
		Drîmbă (ROU) L 1–5
	Individual sabre	Lefèvre (FRA) L 1–5	Pool E 6	Did not advance			Did not advance			41
		Tran (VIE) W 5–2
		Oldcorn (GBR) L 1–5
		Funamizu (JPN) L 2–5
		Rakita (URS) L 1–5
		Wellmann (EUA) L 1–5
Shahpour Zarnegar	Individual épée	Saccaro (ITA) L 1–5	Pool D 8	Did not advance						57
		Trost (AUT) L 1–5
		Gonsior (POL) L 2–5
		Haukler (ROU) L 4–5
		Anger (USA) L 2–5
		Andru (CAN) L 4–5
		Saykali (LIB) L 0–5
Nasser Madani	Individual foil	Echeverri (COL) W 5–3	Pool D 4 Q	Szabó (HUN) L 2–5	Pool E 4 Q	Drîmbă (ROU) L 4–10	Did not advance			17
		Brecht (EUA) L 2–5		Axelrod (USA) L 2–5, W 5–3 B
		Szabó (HUN) L 3–5		Parulski (POL) L 2–5
		Midler (URS) L 2–5		Jay (GBR) W 5–3, W 5–4 B
		Foxcroft (CAN) W 5–0		Courtillat (FRA) W 5–3, L 0–5 B
	Individual sabre	Keresztes (USA) L 0–5	Pool D 6	Did not advance			Did not advance			41
		Kitao (JPN) L 3–5
		Theuerkauff (EUA) L 1–5
		Echeverri (COL) L 3–5
		Bakonyi (HUN) L 3–5

Athlete	Event	1st round		2nd round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Pools	Rank
Houshmand Almasi Nasser Madani Bijan Zarnegar Shahpour Zarnegar	Team épée	Italy L 0–16	Pool C 4	Did not advance				11
		Hungary L 1–14
	Team foil	Soviet Union L 0–10	Pool D 3		Did not advance			9
		United Team of Germany L 2–14
	Team sabre	United Team of Germany L 3–9	Pool D 3		Did not advance			9
		Poland L 0–16

Football

Men^[9]

Squad list	First round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group A	Rank
Aziz Asli Mansour Amirasefi Ali Mirzaei Mostafa Arab Hassan Habibi Ebrahim Latifi Abdollah Saedi Kambozia Jamali Jalal Talebi Gholam Hossein Nourian Mohammad Hossein Khodaparast Karam Nayyerloo Gholam Hossein Fanaei Fariborz Esmaeili Dariush Mostafavi Parviz Ghelichkhani Mohammad Bayati Coach: Hossein Fekri	Germany L 0–4	4	Did not advance			13
	Mexico D 1–1
	Romania L 0–1

Gymnastics

Men^[10]

Athlete	Event	FX	PH	SR	VT	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Jalal Bazargan	Individual all-around	14.95	15.15	15.80	18.35	16.85	15.25	96.35	118

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Compulsory	Optional	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Jalal Bazargan	Floor	7.45	7.50	14.95	123	Did not advance
	Pommel horse	7.55	7.60	15.15	113	Did not advance
	Rings	7.30	8.50	15.80	116	Did not advance
	Vault	9.05	9.30	18.35	103	Did not advance
	Parallel bars	8.15	8.70	16.85	116	Did not advance
	Horizontal bar	7.80	7.45	15.25	116	Did not advance

Women^[11]

Athlete	Event	VT	UB	BB	FX	Total	Rank
Jamileh Sorouri	Individual all-around	12.666	8.000	15.233	14.033	49.932	82

Athlete	Event	Qualification				Final
		Compulsory	Optional	Total	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Jamileh Sorouri	Vault	5.733	6.933	12.666	81	Did not advance
	Uneven bars	3.000	5.000	8.000	82	Did not advance
	Balance beam	7.233	8.000	15.233	81	Did not advance
	Floor	6.500	7.533	14.033	83	Did not advance

Shooting

Open^[12]

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Nosratollah Momtahen	25 m rapid fire pistol	Did not start
	50 m pistol	490	52
Mohammad Jafar Kalani	50 m rifle prone	576	64
	300 m rifle 3 positions	Did not start
Gholam Hossein Mobasser	50 m rifle prone	579	61
Nasser Sharifi	300 m rifle 3 positions	1018	53

Weightlifting

Men^[13]

Athlete	Event	Press	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
Mohammad Nassiri	56 kg	105.0	85.0	120.0	310.0	15
Ali Rajabi	56 kg	100.0	100.0	130.0	330.0	10
Parviz Jalayer	67.5 kg	120.0	120.0	155.0	395.0	7
Reza Esteki	82.5 kg	120.0	132.5	167.5	420.0	12
Manouchehr Boroumand	+90 kg	155.0	140.0	170.0	465.0	12

Wrestling

Men's freestyle^[14]

Athlete	Event	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	4th round	5th round	Final round	Rank
Ali Akbar Heidari	52 kg	Niaz (PAK) D Points	Liang (MAS) W Fall	Zafiropoulos (GRE) W Points	Simons (USA) D Points	Yanılmaz (TUR) W Points	Did not advance
Abdollah Khodabandeh	57 kg	Georgiev (BUL) D Points	Anwary (AFG) W Points	Akbaş (TUR) L Points	Did not advance			9
Ebrahim Seifpour	63 kg	Jutila (CAN) L Fall	Meehan (NZL) W Fall	Yoon (KOR) W Fall	Tovar (MEX) W Points	Khokhashvili (URS) L Points	Did not advance	6
Abdollah Movahed	70 kg	Stephenson (GBR) W Points	Marsh (AUS) W Points	Chung (KOR) W Points	Horiuchi (JPN) D Points	Valchev (BUL) D Points	Did not advance	5
Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran	78 kg	Heinze (EUA) W Points	Watanabe (JPN) W Points	Bajkó (HUN) W Points	Afzal (PAK) W DSQP	Dermendzhiev (BUL) W Points	Sagaradze (URS) D Points
							Ogan (TUR) D Points
Mansour Mehdizadeh	87 kg	Hollósi (HUN) W Points	Brand (USA) D Points	Kobelt (SUI) W Points	Güngör (TUR) W Points	Gardzhev (BUL) W Points	Did not advance	4
Gholamreza Takhti	97 kg	Vígh (HUN) W Points	Buck (GBR) W Fall	Mane (IND) W Fall	Ayık (TUR) L Points	Mustafov (BUL) D Points	Did not advance	4

Men's Greco-Roman^[15]

Athlete	Event	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	4th round	5th round	Final round	Rank
Ahmad Khoshouei	52 kg	Mewis (BEL) L Points	Bozkurt (TUR) L Points	Did not advance			Did not advance	12
Siavash Shafizadeh	57 kg	Knitter (POL) L Points	Švec (TCH) L Fall	Did not advance				15
Rasoul Mirmalek	63 kg	Mansour (EGY) W Points	Olsson (SWE) D Points	Bolocan (ROU) D Points	Ballery (FRA) W Points	Did not advance		6
Hossein Mollaghasemi	70 kg	Burke (USA) D Points	Tapio (FIN) L Fall	Did not advance				14
Asghar Zoghian	78 kg	Bye	Shin (KOR) W Points	Schiermeyer (FRA) L Points	Ţăranu (ROU) L Points	Did not advance		7

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External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database