Iran at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Iran at the
2016 Summer Olympics

IOC code

IRI

NOC

National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran

Website

www.olympic.ir (Persian) (English)

in Rio de Janeiro

Competitors

63 in 15 sports

Flag bearer

Zahra Nemati^[1]

Medals
Ranked 25th

Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
3	1	4	8

Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Iran (officially the Islamic Republic of Iran) competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's debut in 1948, Iranian athletes had attended in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics.

The National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran fielded a team of 63 athletes, 54 men and 9 women, across 15 sports at the Games.^[2] It was the nation's third-largest delegation sent to the Olympics, and also underlined its most female participation in history. Men's volleyball was the only team-based sport in which Iran had its representatives at the Games, signifying the nation's Olympic debut.^[3] Wrestling had the largest team by an individual-based sport with 12 athletes; there was only a single competitor each in archery, boxing, flatwater canoeing, rowing, and swimming.

The Iranian roster featured a number of past Olympic medalists, including discus thrower Ehsan Haddadi, who won the nation's first ever athletics medal with a silver, and four defending champions from London: weightlifter Behdad Salimi, and Greco-Roman wrestlers Hamid Sourian, Omid Norouzi, and Ghasem Rezaei. Other notable Iranian athletes included table tennis player Noshad Alamian and his younger brother Nima in the men's singles, rifle shooter and London 2012 finalist Elaheh Ahmadi, and paraplegic archer Zahra Nemati, who significantly became the nation's first ever female athlete to earn an Olympic or Paralympic title four years earlier.^[4] Consequently, Nemati's story and sporting success prompted her to lead the Iranian delegation as the flag bearer in the opening ceremony, the third by a female in history.^[1]

Iran left Rio de Janeiro with a total of 8 medals (3 gold, 1 silver, and 4 bronze), finishing twenty-fifth in the overall standings.^[5] Five of these medals were awarded to the team in wrestling, two in weightlifting, and one in taekwondo. Among the nation's medalists were taekwondo fighter Kimia Alizadeh, who became the first Iranian woman to stand on the podium by taking the bronze, and weightlifter Kianoush Rostami, who overturned his runner-up feat from London with a new world record for gold in the men's 85 kg category.^[6]^[7]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
01 ! Gold	Rostami, KianoushKianoush Rostami	Weightlifting	Men's 85 kg	000000002016-08-12-0000August 12
01 ! Gold	Moradi, SohrabSohrab Moradi	Weightlifting	Men's 94 kg	000000002016-08-13-0000August 13
01 ! Gold	Yazdani, HassanHassan Yazdani	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg	000000002016-08-19-0000August 19
02 ! Silver	Ghasemi, KomeilKomeil Ghasemi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 125 kg	000000002016-08-20-0000August 20
03 ! Bronze	Abdevali, SaeidSaeid Abdevali	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 75 kg	000000002016-08-14-0000August 14
03 ! Bronze	Rezaei, GhasemGhasem Rezaei	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 98 kg	000000002016-08-16-0000August 16
03 ! Bronze	Alizadeh, KimiaKimia Alizadeh	Taekwondo	Women's 57 kg	000000002016-08-18-0000August 18
03 ! Bronze	Rahimi, HassanHassan Rahimi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg	000000002016-08-19-0000August 19

Medals by sport
Sport	01 !	02 !	03 !	Total
Weightlifting	2	0	0	2
Wrestling	1	1	3	5
Taekwondo	0	0	1	1
Total	3	1	4	8

Medals by date
Day	Date	01 !	02 !	03 !	Total
Day 1	6 August	0	0	0	0
Day 2	7 August	0	0	0	0
Day 3	8 August	0	0	0	0
Day 4	9 August	0	0	0	0
Day 5	10 August	0	0	0	0
Day 6	11 August	0	0	0	0
Day 7	12 August	1	0	0	1
Day 8	13 August	1	0	0	1
Day 9	14 August	0	0	1	1
Day 10	15 August	0	0	0	0
Day 11	16 August	0	0	1	1
Day 12	17 August	0	0	0	0
Day 13	18 August	0	0	1	1
Day 14	19 August	1	0	1	2
Day 15	20 August	0	1	0	1
Day 16	21 August	0	0	0	0
Total		3	1	4	8

Competitors

Iranian delegation at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Archery	0	1	1
Athletics	9	1	10
Boxing	1	0	1
Canoeing	1	0	1
Cycling	3	0	3
Fencing	2	0	2
Judo	2	0	2
Rowing	0	1	1
Shooting	1	4	5
Swimming	1	0	1
Table tennis	2	1	3
Taekwondo	3	1	4
Volleyball	12	0	12
Weightlifting	5	0	5
Wrestling	12	0	12
Total	54	9	63

Archery

Main articles: Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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.^[8]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Zahra Nemati	Women's individual	609	49	Stepanova (RUS) L 2–6	Did not advance

Athletics

Main articles: Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Iranian athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):^[9]^[10]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Ehsan Haddadi in men's discus throw.

Men
Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Quarterfinal		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Reza Ghasemi	100 m	Bye		10:47	7	Did not advance
Hassan Taftian	100 m	Bye		10:17	3 q	10:23	8	Did not advance
Mohammad Jafar Moradi	Marathon	N/A						2:31:58	129
Hamid Reza Zouravand	20 km walk	N/A						1:27:45	54

Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Mohammad Arzandeh	Long jump	7.31	29	Did not advance
Ehsan Haddadi	Discus throw	60.15	24	Did not advance
Mahmoud Samimi	Discus throw	56.94	30	Did not advance
Pezhman Ghalehnoei	Hammer throw	69.15	28	Did not advance
Kaveh Mousavi	Hammer throw	65.03	29	Did not advance

Women
Field events

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Distance	Position	Distance	Position
Leila Rajabi	Shot put	16.34	32	Did not advance

Boxing

Main articles: Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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.^[11]^[12]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Ehsan Rouzbahani	Men's light heavyweight	Müllenberg (NED) L 0–3	Did not advance

Canoeing

Main articles: Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2016 Summer Olympics - Qualification

Sprint

Iran has received a spare berth from the International Canoe Federation to enter a boat in the men's C-1 200 m to the Olympics, as the next highest-ranked nation, not yet qualified, at the 2015 Canoe Sprint World Championships, and as a response to the forfeiture of five boats held by the Russians due to their previous doping bans and their implications in the "disappearing positive methodology" set out in the McClaren Report on Russia's state-sponsored doping.^[13]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Adel Mojallali	Men's C-1 200 m	41.650	4 Q	42.386	6	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)

Cycling

Main articles: Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Iranian cycling team at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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.^[14]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ghader Mizbani	Men's road race	Did not finish
Ghader Mizbani	Men's time trial	1:21:39.45	31
Arvin Moazzami	Men's road race	Did not finish
Samad Pourseyedi	Men's road race	Did not finish

Fencing

Main articles: Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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.^[15]


Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Mojtaba Abedini	Men's sabre	Yahodka (UKR) W 15–9	Gu B-g (KOR) W 15–12	Anstett (FRA) W 15–13	Homer (USA) L 14–15	Kim J-h (KOR) L 8–15	4
Ali Pakdaman	Men's sabre	Szabo (GER) L 11–15	Did not advance

Judo

Main articles: Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Judo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Iran has qualified three judokas for each of the following weight classes at the Games. London 2012 Olympian Javad Mahjoub was 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 the highest-ranked Iranian judoka outside of direct qualifying position.^[16]^[17] Khojasteh subsequently withdrew from the Olympics before the opening ceremony due to health reasons.^[18]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Saeid Mollaei	Men's −81 kg	Bye	Khalmurzaev (RUS) L 000–000 S	Did not advance
Javad Mahjoub	Men's −100 kg	Bye	Nikiforov (BEL) L 000–100	Did not advance

Rowing

Main articles: Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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.^[19]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mahsa Javar	Women's single sculls	8:39.28	4 R	8:06.57	3 SE/F	Bye		8:45.54	2 FE	8:43.34	28

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

Main articles: Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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.^[20]

Elaheh Ahmadi finished sixth in women's 10 m air rifle final.

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Pouria Norouzian	Men's 10 m air rifle	622.2	22	N/A		Did not advance
Pouria Norouzian	Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions	1168	26	N/A		Did not advance
Elaheh Ahmadi	Women's 10 m air rifle	417.8	3 Q	N/A		122.5	6
Mahlagha Jambozorg	Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions	574	27	N/A		Did not advance
Najmeh Khedmati	Women's 10 m air rifle	415.7	11	N/A		Did not advance
Najmeh Khedmati	Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions	583	6 Q	N/A		402.3	8
Golnoush Sebghatollahi	Women's 10 m air pistol	379	21	N/A		Did not advance
Golnoush Sebghatollahi	Women's 25 m pistol	572	28	Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Main articles: Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Iran's only swimmer in Rio 2016, Arya Nasimi Shad.

Iran has received a Universality invitation from FINA to send a male swimmer to the Olympics.^[21]^[22]^[23]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Arya Nasimi Shad	Men's 200 m breaststroke	2:20.18	39	Did not advance

Table tennis

Main articles: Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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.^[24]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Nima Alamian	Men's singles	Jha (USA) W 4–1	Ionescu (ROU) L 1–4	Did not advance
Noshad Alamian	Men's singles	Bye	Tokič (SLO) L 1–4	Did not advance
Neda Shahsavari	Women's singles	Bye	Privalova (BLR) L 3–4	Did not advance

Taekwondo

Main articles: Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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.^[25] 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.^[26]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Repechage	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Farzan Ashourzadeh	Men's −58 kg	Hajjami (MAR) L 3–4	Did not advance
Mehdi Khodabakhshi	Men's −80 kg	Ferrera (HON) W 13–1 PTG	Beigi (AZE) L 5–17 PTG	Did not advance
Sajjad Mardani	Men's +80 kg	Taufatofua (TGA) W 16–1 PTG	Cho (GBR) 0L 3–4 SUD	Did not advance
Kimia Alizadeh	Women's −57 kg	Zaninović (CRO) W 7–6	Calvo (ESP) L 7–8	Did not advance	Harnsujin (THA) W 14–10	Glasnović (SWE) W 5–1	03 !

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Indoor

Men's tournament

Main articles: Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Volleyball at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification

Iran men's volleyball team qualified for the Olympics by picking up the continental spot as the highest-ranked Asian team at the first meet of the World Olympic Qualifying Tournament in Tokyo, Japan, signifying the nation's Olympic debut in the sport.^[27]

Team roster

The following is the Iranian roster in the men's volleyball tournament of the 2016 Summer Olympics.^[28]^[29]

Head coach: Raúl Lozano

No.	Name	Date of birth	Height	Weight	Spike	Block	2015–16 club
01 !1	Mahmoudi, ShahramShahram Mahmoudi	000000001988-07-20-000020 July 1988	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	95 kg (209 lb)	347 cm (137 in)	332 cm (131 in)	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran
02 !2	Ebadipour, MiladMilad Ebadipour	000000001993-10-17-000017 October 1993	1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)	78 kg (172 lb)	350 cm (140 in)	310 cm (120 in)	Shahrdari Urmia
04 !4	Marouf, SaeidSaeid Marouf (C)	000000001985-10-20-000020 October 1985	1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)	81 kg (179 lb)	331 cm (130 in)	311 cm (122 in)	Shahrdari Urmia
05 !5	Ghaemi, FarhadFarhad Ghaemi	000000001989-08-28-000028 August 1989	1.97 m (6 ft 6 in)	73 kg (161 lb)	355 cm (140 in)	335 cm (132 in)	Paykan Tehran
06 !6	Mousavi, MohammadMohammad Mousavi	000000001987-08-22-000022 August 1987	2.03 m (6 ft 8 in)	86 kg (190 lb)	362 cm (143 in)	344 cm (135 in)	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran
07 !7	Zarini, HamzehHamzeh Zarini	000000001985-10-18-000018 October 1985	1.98 m (6 ft 6 in)	98 kg (216 lb)	351 cm (138 in)	330 cm (130 in)	Kalleh Mazandaran
09 !9	Gholami, AdelAdel Gholami	000000001986-02-09-00009 February 1986	1.95 m (6 ft 5 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	341 cm (134 in)	330 cm (130 in)	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran
10	Ghafour, AmirAmir Ghafour	000000001991-06-06-00006 June 1991	2.02 m (6 ft 8 in)	90 kg (200 lb)	354 cm (139 in)	334 cm (131 in)	Paykan Tehran
12	Mirzajanpour, MojtabaMojtaba Mirzajanpour	000000001991-10-07-00007 October 1991	2.05 m (6 ft 9 in)	88 kg (194 lb)	355 cm (140 in)	348 cm (137 in)	Paykan Tehran
13	Mahdavi, MehdiMehdi Mahdavi	000000001984-02-13-000013 February 1984	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)	96 kg (212 lb)	330 cm (130 in)	310 cm (120 in)	Sarmayeh Bank Tehran
15	Sharifat, MostafaMostafa Sharifat	000000001987-09-16-000016 September 1987	2.04 m (6 ft 8 in)	85 kg (187 lb)	332 cm (131 in)	313 cm (123 in)	Matin Varamin
19	Marandi, MehdiMehdi Marandi (L)	000000001986-05-12-000012 May 1986	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)	69 kg (152 lb)	295 cm (116 in)	280 cm (110 in)	Paykan Tehran

Group play

Pos	Team	Pld	W	L	Pts	SW	SL	SR	SPW	SPL	SPR	Qualification
1	Argentina	5	4	1	12	12	4	3.000	394	335	1.176	Quarter-finals
2	Poland	5	4	1	12	14	5	2.800	447	389	1.149
3	Russia	5	4	1	11	13	6	2.167	432	367	1.177
4	Iran	5	2	3	7	8	9	0.889	389	392	0.992
5	Egypt	5	1	4	3	3	12	0.250	286	362	0.790
6	Cuba	5	0	5	0	1	15	0.067	300	403	0.744

Source: FIVB
Rules for classification: Tiebreakers

7 August 2016
22:35

Argentina	3–0	Iran
(25–23, 26–24, 25–18) Result Statistics

Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 6,460
Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Liu Jiang (CHN)

9 August 2016
17:35

Poland	3–2	Iran
(25–17, 25–23, 23–25, 20–25, 18–16) Result Statistics

Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 7,227
Referees: Paulo Turci (BRA), Susana Rodríguez (ESP)

11 August 2016
09:30

Iran	3–0	Cuba
(25–21, 31–29, 25–16) Result Statistics

Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 6,625
Referees: Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA), Juray Mokrý (SVK)

13 August 2016
09:30

Iran	3–0	Egypt
(28–26, 25–22, 25–16) Result Statistics

Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 6,262
Referees: Andrey Zenovich (RUS), Rogerio Espicalsky (BRA)

15 August 2016
15:00

Russia	3–0	Iran
(25–23, 25–16, 25–20) Result Statistics

Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 7,387
Referees: Liu Jiang (CHN), Fabrizio Pasquali (ITA)

Quarterfinal

17 August 2016
18:00

Italy	3–0	Iran
(31–29, 25–19, 25–17) Result Statistics

Ginásio do Maracanãzinho, Rio de Janeiro
Attendance: 7,213
Referees: Denny Cespedes (DOM), Juraj Mokrý (SVK)

Weightlifting

Main articles: Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

Iran's gold medalists Kianoush Rostami and Sohrab Moradi in weightlifting

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.^[30]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Total	Rank
Kianoush Rostami	Men's −85 kg	179	1	217	1	396 WR	01 !
Ali Hashemi	Men's −94 kg	173	7	210	7	383	7
Sohrab Moradi	Men's −94 kg	182	1	221	1	403	01 !
Mohammad Reza Barari	Men's −105 kg	186	6	220	6	406	6
Behdad Salimi	Men's +105 kg	216 WR	1	~~245~~	DNF	216	DNF

Wrestling

Main articles: Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2016 Summer Olympics – Qualification

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 130 kg and men's Greco-Roman 66 kg at the 2016 Asian Qualification Tournament.^[31]

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.
ST – Great superiority – the loser without technical points and a margin of victory of at least 8 (Greco-Roman) or 10 (freestyle) points.

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hassan Rahimi	−57 kg	Bye	Mnatsakanyan (ARM) W 4–0 ^ST	Lebedev (RUS) W 3–1 ^PP	Higuchi (JPN) L 1–3 ^PP	Bye		Bonne (CUB) W 5–0 ^VT	03 !
Meisam Nasiri	−65 kg	Novachkov (BUL) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance						15
Hassan Yazdani	−74 kg	Bye	Castelly (HAI) W 4–0 ^ST	Demirtaş (TUR) W 3–0 ^PO	Usserbayev (KAZ) W 4–0 ^ST	Bye		Geduev (RUS) W 3–1 ^PP	01 !
Alireza Karimi	−86 kg	Saadaoui (TUN) W 3–0 ^PO	Ganev (BUL) W 3–1 ^PP	Cox (USA) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance				7
Reza Yazdani	−97 kg	Bölükbaşı (TUR) W 4–0 ^ST	Gazyumov (AZE) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance		Baran (POL) W 3–1 ^PP	Ibragimov (UZB) L 0–5 ^VT	Did not advance	7
Komeil Ghasemi	−125 kg	Jarvis (CAN) W 3–1 ^PP	Kamal (EGY) W 3–0 ^PO	Petriashvili (GEO) W 3–1 ^PP	Dlagnev (USA) W 4–0 ^ST	Bye		Akgül (TUR) L 1–3 ^PP	02 !

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Qualification	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage 1	Repechage 2	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Hamid Sourian	−59 kg	Ota (JPN) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance			Kebispayev (KAZ) L 0–5 ^VT	Did not advance		11
Omid Norouzi	−66 kg	Bye	Rivas (VEN) W 3–1 ^PP	Bolkvadze (GEO) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance				10
Saeid Abdevali	−75 kg	Bye	Madsen (DEN) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance		Bye	Nemeš (SRB) W 3–1 ^PP	Bácsi (HUN) W 3–1 ^PP	03 !
Habibollah Akhlaghi	−85 kg	Berg (SWE) W 4–0 ^ST	Chakvetadze (RUS) L 0–5 ^VT	Did not advance		Tahmasebi (AZE) W 3–1 ^PP	Kudla (GER) L 1–3 ^PP	Did not advance	7
Ghasem Rezaei	−98 kg	Bye	Pérez (VEN) W 4–0 ^ST	Lugo (CUB) L 0–3 ^PO	Did not advance	Bye	Xiao D (CHN) W 3–0 ^PO	Schön (SWE) W 3–1 ^PP	03 !
Bashir Babajanzadeh	−130 kg	Bye	Meng Q (CHN) W 3–1 ^PP	Popp (GER) L 3–1 ^PP	Did not advance				10

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Nations at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Congo DR Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Swaziland Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe

Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts and Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands

Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China East Timor Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal North Korea Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore South Korea Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen

Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine

Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Federated States of Micronesia Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu

Others	Independent Olympic Athletes Refugee Olympic Team

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Iran at the 2016 Summer Olympics

Medalists

Competitors

Archery

Athletics

Boxing

Canoeing

Sprint

Cycling

Road

Fencing

Judo

Rowing

Shooting

Swimming

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Volleyball

Indoor

Men's tournament

Weightlifting

Wrestling

See also

References