Iran at the 1976 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Iran
games=1976 Summer
competitors=86
sports=9
flagbearer=
gold=0
silver=1
bronze=1
total=2
rank=33

Iran competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada.

Medalists

Silver

* Mansour Barzegar - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 74 kg

Bronze

* Mohammad Nassiri - Weightlifting, Men's 52 kg

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's 100 m:
*Ayoub Bodaghi - 62nd place
*# Round 1 - 7th place in heat 3, 11.39, Did not advance

Men's 200 m:
*Ayoub Bodaghi - 39th place
*# Round 1 - 6th place in heat 7, 22.47, Did not advance

Men's 5000 m:
* Hossein Rabbi - 33th place
*# Qualifying - 10th place in heat 2, 14:47.12, Did not advance

Men's 10000 m:
* Hossein Rabbi - 35th place
*# Qualifying - 13th place in heat 3, 31:44.27, Did not advance

Men's high jump:
* Teymour Ghiassi - 22nd place
*# Qualifying - 2.10 m, Did not advance

Men's discus throw:
* Salman Hesam - 28th place
*# Qualifying - 52.40 m, Did not advance

=Boxing=

Men's 48 kg:
* Saeid Bashiri - Eliminated
*# 1/16 final - Lost to György Gedó of Hungary, Knock-out

Men's 57 kg:
* Behzad Ghaedi - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Defeated John Sichula of Zambia, Walkover
*# 1/8 final - Lost to Richard Nowakowski of East Germany, Referee stop contest

Men's 60 kg:
* Parviz Bahmani - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Defeated Nassreddin Elagely of Libya, Walkover
*# 1/8 final - Lost to Tzvetan Tzvetkov of Bulgaria, 5-0

Men's 67 kg:
* Ali Bahri-Khomami - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Lost to Jochen Bachfeld of East Germany, Referee stop contest

Men's 71 kg:
* Mohammad Azarhazin - Eliminated
*# 1/16 final - Defeated Franz Dorfer of Austria, 4-1
*# 1/8 final - Lost to Tadija Kacar of Yugoslavia, 5-0

Men's +81 kg:
* Parviz Badpa - Eliminated
*# 1/16 final - Bye
*# 1/8 final - Lost to Clarence Hill of Bermuda, Knock-out

=Cycling=

Road cycling

Men's individual road race:
*Asghar Khodayari - Did not finish
*Hassan Arianfar - Did not finish
*Mahmoud Delshad Shakouri - Did not finish
*Mohammad Ali Agha-Cheloi - Did not finish

Men's 100 km team time trial:
* Team - 24th place, 2:28:25
* Team roster
** Hassan Arianfar
** Gholam Hossein Kouhi
** Khosrow Haghgosha
** Asghar Khodayari

Track cycling

Men's 1000 m time trial:
*Masoud Mobarakizadeh - 25th place, 1:14.169

Men's 4000 m individual pursuit:
*Gholam Hossein Kouhi - 27th place
*# Elimination - Overtaken, Did not advance

=Fencing=

Men's individual epee:
* Sarkis Assadourian - 32nd place
*# Round 1 - 25th place, 3W/2L
*# Round 2 - 0W/5L, Did not advance
* Iraj Dastgerdi - 49th place
*# Round 1 - 2W/3L, Did not advance
* Esfandiar Zarnegar - 58th place
*# Round 1 - 0W/4L, Did not advance

Men's individual foil:
* Hossein Niknam - 33rd place
*# Round 1 - 36th place, 2W/3L
*# Round 2 - 1W/4L, Did not advance
* Ahmad Akbari-Javid - 38th place
*# Round 1 - 2W/3L, Did not advance
* Ali Asghar Pashapour - 38th place
*# Round 1 - 2W/3L, Did not advance

Men's individual sabre:
* Esmaeil Pashapour - 34th place
*# Round 1 - 33rd place, 1W/3L
*# Round 2 - 0W/5L, Did not advance
* Ahmad Eskandarpour - 37th place
*# Round 1 - 1W/3L, Did not advance
* Abdolhamid Fathi - 43rd place
*# Round 1 - 0W/4L, Did not advance

Men's team epee:
* Team - 11th place
*# Round 1 - 3rd place in pool C, Did not advance
*## Lost to Italy, 11-5
*## Lost to Sweden, 11-4

* Team roster
** Sarkis Assadourian
** Iraj Dastgerdi
** Esfandiar Zarnegar
** Ali Asghar Pashapour

Men's team foil:
* Team - 9th place
*# Round 1 - 3rd place in pool D, Did not advance
*## Lost to United States, 12-4
*## Lost to Poland, 13-3
*## Defeated Hong Kong, 9-7
* Team roster
** Hossein Niknam
** Ahmad Akbari-Javid
** Ali Asghar Pashapour
** Sarkis Assadourian

Men's team sabre:
* Team - 9th place
*# Round 1 - 4th place in pool D, Did not advance
*## Lost to Hungary, 14-2
*## Lost to Poland, 9-7
*## Lost to Argentina, 9-4
* Team roster
** Abdolhamid Fathi
** Ahmad Akbari-Javid
** Ahmad Eskandarpour
** Esmaeil Pashapour

Women's individual foil:
* Jila Almasi - 37th place
*# Round 1 - 2W/3L, Did not advance
* Giti Mohebban - 42nd place
*# Round 1 - 1W/4L, Did not advance
* Mahvash Shafaei - 45th place
*# Round 1 - 0W/5L, Did not advance

Women's team foil:
* Team - 9th place
*# Round 1 - 4th place in pool D, Did not advance
*## Lost to Italy, 13-3
*## Lost to Great Britain, 9-7
*## Lost to United States, 11-5
* Team roster
** Giti Mohebban
** Jila Almasi
** Mahvash Shafaei
** Maryam Achak

=Football=

Men:
* Team - Eliminated
*# Eighthfinal - 2nd place in group C
*## Defeated Cuba, 1-0
*## Lost to Poland, 3-2
*# Quarterfinal - Lost to Soviet Union, 2-1

* Team roster
** Mansour Rashidi
** Hassan Nazari
** Andranik Eskandarian
** Bijan Zolfagharnasab
** Parviz Ghelichkhani
** Ebrahim Ghasempour
** Ali Parvin
** Nasrollah Abdollahi
** Nasser Nouraei
** Hassan Rowshan
** Alireza Khorshidi
** Hassan Nayebagha
** Gholam Hossein Mazloumi
** Sahamoddin Mirfakhraei
** Ghafour Jahani
** Alireza Azizi
** Nasser Hejazi
*Head coach: Heshmat Mohajerani

=Shooting=

Tr

* Mohammad Ali Alijani - 41st place, 150 points
* Houshang Ghazvini - 44th place, 71 points (Ghazvini was forced to retire half-way through competition due to fracturing his cheekbone from the gun's kickback).Skeet:
* Esfandiar Lari - 54th place, 179 points
* Kamil Jafari Tabrizi - 62nd place, 170 points

=Water polo=

Men:
* Team - 12th place
*# Initial round - 4th place in group A
*## Lost to Italy, 12-1
*## Lost to Yugoslavia, 15-0
*## Lost to Cuba, 12-3
*# 7th to 12th places - 6th place in group E
*## Lost to Mexico, 11-3
*## Lost to Australia, 8-2
*## Lost to Canada, 8-1
*## Lost to Cuba, 10-2
*## Lost to Soviet Union, 16-0

* Team roster
** Firouz Abdolmohammadian
** Jahangir Tavakkoli
** Heidar Shondjani
** Ahmad Peidayesh
** Dariush Movahedi
** Bahram Tavakkoli
** Gholamreza Firouzpour
** Mohammad Parchami
** Hossein Nasim-Nasseri
** Abdolreza Majdpour
** Ahmad Yaghouti
*Head coach: Mansour Garrousi

=Weightlifting=

Men's 52 kg:
* Mohammad Nassiri - Bronze medal, 235 kgMen's 56 kg:
* Fazlollah Dehkhoda - 8th place, 240 kg
* Feyzollah Nasseri - 10th place, 232.5 kgMen's 60 kg:
* Davoud Maleki - 6th place, 260 kgMen's 75 kg:
* Mehdi Attar Ashrafi - 13th place, 295 kgMen's 110 kg:
* Houshang Kargarnejad - 17th place, 322.5 kg
* Ali Vali - No mark

=Wrestling=

Freestyle

Men's 48 kg:
* Sobhan Rouhi - 9th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Jorge Frías of Mexico, Fall, 0 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Khasan Isaev of Bulgaria, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Li Yong-Nam of North Korea, 14-13, 5 pen
*# Round 4 - Lost to Kim Hwa-Kyung of South Korea, Fall, 9 pen, Eliminated

Men's 52 kg:
* Habib Fattahi - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to Jeon Hae-Sup of South Korea, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Giuseppe Bognanni of Italy, 24-2, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Henrik Gál of Hungary, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:
* Ramezan Kheder - 5th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Michael Barry of Canada, 23-5, 0 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Gigel Anghel of Romania, 18-15, 1 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Jung Youn-Ok of South Korea, 24-9, 1 pen
*# Round 4 - Defeated Georgios Hatziioannidis of Greece, 26-8, 1 pen
*# Round 5 - Lost to Miho Dukov of Bulgaria, 12-8, 4 pen
*# Round 6 - Lost to Hans-Dieter Brüchert of East Germany, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 62 kg:
* Mohsen Farahvashi - 4th place
*# Round 1 - Lost to Vehbi Akdağ of Turkey, 8-6, 3 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Kenkichi Maekawa of Japan, 4-4, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Egon Beiler of Canada, 9-5, 5 pen
*# Round 4 - Bye
*# Round 5 - Defeated Gene Davis of United States, 18-12, 6 pen
*# Round 6 - Lost to Zevegiin Oidov of Mongolia, Disqualified, 10 pen, Eliminated

Men's 68 kg:
* Mohammad Reza Navaei - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Defeated Gerhard Weisenberger of West Germany, 19-7, 0 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Lloyd Keaser of United States, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Sergio Fiszman of Argentina, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 4 - Lost to Yasaburo Sugawara of Japan, 16-1, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 74 kg:
* Mansour Barzegar - Silver medal
*# Round 1 - Defeated Ruslan Ashuraliyev of Soviet Union, 6-6, 1 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Yancho Pavlov of Bulgaria, 11-5, 2 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Giuseppe Spagnoli of Italy, Disqualified, 2 pen
*# Round 4 - Defeated Jarmo Övermark of Finland, Disqualified, 2 pen
*# Round 5 - Defeated Fred Hempel of East Germany, 23-8, 2 pen
*# Final 1 - Defeated Stanley Dziedzic of United States, 11-8, 1 pen
*# Final 2 - Lost to Jiichiro Date of Japan, Fall, 5 pen

Men's 82 kg:
* Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to István Kovács of Hungary, Disqualified, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Henryk Mazur of Poland, 13-10, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 90 kg:
* Alireza Soleimani - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to Yoshiaki Yatsu of Japan, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Michel Grangier of France, 21-7, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Bárbaro Morgan of Cuba, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 100 kg:
* Reza Soukhteh Saraei - 9th place
*# Round 1 - Lost to Kazuo Shimizu of Japan, 8-6, 3 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Hans-Peter Stratz of West Germany, 10-4, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Russell Hellickson of United States, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's +100 kg:
* Eskandar Filabi - 7th place
*# Round 1 - Bye
*# Round 2 - Lost to József Balla of Hungary, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Doljingiin Adiyatömör of Mongolia, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 4 - Lost to Ladislau Şimon of Romania, Disqualified, 8 pen, Eliminated

Greco-Roman

Men's 48 kg:
* Khalil Rashid-Mohammadzadeh - 8th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Antonio Quistelli of Italy, Fall, 0 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Yoshite Moriwaki of Japan, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Stefan Angelov of Bulgaria, Disqualified, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 52 kg:
* Morad-Ali Shirani - 6th place
*# Round 1 - Bye
*# Round 2 - Lost to Lajos Rácz of Hungary, 9-6, 3 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Koichiro Hirayama of Japan, 15-12, 4 pen
*# Round 4 - Lost to Rolf Krauss of West Germany, 16-10, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 62 kg:
* Gholamreza Ghassab - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to László Réczi of Hungary, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Domenico Giuffrida of Italy, 27-14, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Teruhiko Miyahara of Japan, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 68 kg:
* Jafar Alizadeh - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Defeated Arona Mané of Senegal, Fall, 0 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Lars-Erik Skiöld of Sweden, 22-8, 4 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Suren Nalbandyan of Soviet Union, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 82 kg:
* Houshang Montazeralzohour - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to Momir Petković of Yugoslavia, Disqualified, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Kazuhiro Takanishi of Japan, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 90 kg:
* Hashem Kolahi - 9th place
*# Round 1 - Lost to Frank Andersson of Sweden, 25-9, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Bye
*# Round 3 - Lost to Czesław Kwieciński of Poland, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 100 kg:
* Bahram Moshtaghi - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to Andrzej Skrzylewski of Poland, Fall, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Brad Rheingans of United States, Fall, 8 pen, Eliminated