Iran at the 1972 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Iran
games=1972 Summer
competitors=50
sports=7
flagbearer=
gold=0
silver=2
bronze=1
total=3
rank=28

Iran competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany.

Medalists

Silver

* Mohammad Nassiri - Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg
* Rahim Ali-Abadi - Wrestling, Men's greco-roman 48 kg

Bronze

* Ebrahim Javadi - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 48 kg

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's 100 m:
*Farhad Navvab - 75th place
*# Heats - 6th place in heat 4, 11.02, Did not advance

Men's 400 m:
*Reza Entezari - 39th place
*# Heats - 4th place in Heat 8, 47.89
*# Second round - 8th place in heat 2, 48.69, Did not advance

Men's 800 m:
*Reza Entezari - 38th place
*# Heats - 5th place in heat 1, 1:50.5, Did not advance

Men's high jump:
*Teymour Ghiassi - 25th place
*# Qualifying round - 2.12 m, Did not advance

=Boxing=

Men's 54 kg:
*Manouchehr Bahmani - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Lost to Wang Chee-Yen of Republic of China, 3-2

Men's 57 kg:
*Jabbar Feli Karouchali - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Lost to Philip Waruinge of Kenya, 4-1

Men's 60 kg:
*Hossein Eghmaz - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Defeated Abdelhadi Khallafallah of Egypt, Referee stop contest
*# 1/16 final - Lost to Ivan Mikhailov of Bulgaria, 3-2

Men's 63.5 kg:
*Nosrat Vakil Monfared - Eliminated
*# 1/16 final - Lost to James Montague of Ireland, Referee stop contest

Men's 67 kg:
*Vartex Parsanian - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Defeated Mbaraka Mkanga of Tanzania, 5-0
*# 1/8 final - Lost to Richard Murunga of Kenya, Referee stop contest

=Cycling=

Road cycling

Men's 100 km team road race:
* Team - 32nd place, 2:34:30.7
* Team roster
** Khosrow Haghgosha
** Gholamhossein Kouhi
** Mohammadtaghi Khodavand
** Behrouz Rahbar

Track cycling

Men's 1000 m against the clock:
*Behrouz Rahbar - 28th place, 1:15.39

Men's sprint:
*Behrouz Rahbar - Eliminated
*# Preliminary round - Did not start
*Gholamhossein Kouhi - Eliminated
*# Preliminary round - Did not start

Men's individual pursuit:
*Khosrow Haghgosha - 25th place
*# Heats - 5:22.98, Did not advance

Men's team pursuit:
* Team - 22nd place
*# Heats - 5:10.80, Did not advance
* Team roster
** Khosrow Haghgosha
** Gholamhossein Kouhi
** Mohammadtaghi Khodavand
** Behrouz Rahbar

=Fencing=

Men's individual épée:
* Ali Asghar Pashapour - Eliminated
*# Eliminating rounds - 5th place in pool 5, 1W/4L, Did not advance
* Pirouz Adamiyat - Eliminated
*# Eliminating rounds - 6th place in pool 12, 1W/4L, Did not advance

Men's individual foil:
* Ali Asghar Pashapour - Eliminated
*# Eliminating rounds - 5th place in pool 1, 1W/4L, Did not advance

=Football=

Men:
* Team - Eliminated
*# Preliminary round - 3rd place in group C, Did not advance
*## Lost to Hungary, 5-0
*## Lost to Denmark, 4-0
*## Defeated Brazil, 1-0

* Team roster
** Ebrahim Ashtiani
** Jafar Kashani
** Majid Halvaei
** Akbar Kargar Jam
** Parviz Ghelichkhani
** Ali Parvin
** Ali Jabbari
** Mohammad Sadeghi
** Safar Iranpak
** Asghar Sharafi
** Mansour Rashidi
** Gholam Vafakhah
** Javad Ghorab
** Mehdi Monajati
** Mahmoud Khordbin
** Mehdi Lari Lavasani
** Alireza Azizi
** Javad Allahverdi
** Reza Ghoflsaz
*Head coach: Mahmoud Bayati

=Weightlifting=

Men's 52 kg:
* Mohammadreza Nasehi - Disqualified, DopingMen's 56 kg:
* Mohammad Nassiri - Silver medal, 370 kgMen's 67.5 kg:
* Nasrollah Dehnavi - 5th place, 435 kg

=Wrestling=

Freestyle

Men's 48 kg:
* Ebrahim Javadi - Bronze medal
*# Round 1 - Drew with Sergio Gonzalez of United States, 2 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Bazarragtchaa Jamsran of Mongolia by fall, 2 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Sefer Baygin of Turkey by superiority, 2.5 pen
*# Round 4 - Defeated Masahiko Umeda of Japan by points, 3.5 pen
*# Final 1 - Defeated Roman Dmitriev of Soviet Union by points, 1 pen
*# Final 2 - Lost to Ognian Nikolov of Bulgaria by points, 4 pen

Men's 52 kg:
* Mohammad Ghorbani - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to Kiyomi Kato of Japan by fall, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Did not show, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:
* Ramezan Kheder - 7th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Horst Mayer of East Germany by points, 1 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Juan Velarde of Peru by fall, 1 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Amrik Singh Gill of Great Britain by fall, 1 pen
*# Round 4 - Defeated Migd Khoilogdorj of Mongolia by points, 2 pen
*# Round 5 - Lost to Laszló Klinga of Hungary by points, 5 pen
*# Round 6 - Lost to Hideaki Yanagida of Japan by points, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 62 kg:
* Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi - 5th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Stanislav Tüma of Czechoslovakia by superiority, 0.5 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Jose Ramos of Cuba by points, 1.5 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Panayotis Koutsoupakis of Greece by superiority, 2 pen
*# Round 4 - Defeated Odule Toulotte of France by superiority, 2.5 pen
*# Round 5 - Lost to Kiyoshi Abe of Japan by points, 5.5 pen
*# Round 6 - Did not show, Eliminated

Men's 68 kg:
* Abdollah Movahed - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Defeated Segundo Olmedo of Panama by superiority, 0.5 pen
*# Round 2 - Did not show, Eliminated

Men's 74 kg:
* Mansour Barzegar - 6th place
*# Round 1 - Bye
*# Round 2 - Defeated Toshitada Yoshida of Japan by superiority, 0.5 pen
*# Round 3 - Drew with Miklôs Urbanovics of Hungary, 2.5 pen
*# Round 4 - Defeated Yuri Gusov of Soviet Union by fall, 2.5 pen
*# Round 5 - Lost to Adolf Seger of West Germany by fall, 6.5 pen, Eliminated

Men's 82 kg:
* Ali Hajiloo - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Drew with Tatsuo Sasaki of Japan, 2 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated David Aspin of New Zealand by points, 3 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Vasile Iorga of Romania by fall, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 90 kg:
* Reza Hosseini Khorrami - 5th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Etienne Martinetti of Switzerland by fall, 0 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Makoto Kamada of Japan by points, 1 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Ernst Knoll of West Germany by points, 2 pen
*# Round 4 - Lost to Benjamin Peterson of United States by points, 5 pen
*# Round 5 - Drew with Kàroly Bajkô of Hungary, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 100 kg:
* Abolfazl Anvari - 7th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Karel Engel of Czechoslovakia by points, 1 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Robert Ndiaye of Senegal by fall, 1 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Khorloogiin Bayanmönkh of Mongolia by fall, 5 pen
*# Round 4 - Lost to Ivan Yarygin of Soviet Union by fall, 9 pen, Eliminated

Men's +100 kg:
* Eskandar Filabi - 4th place
*# Round 1 - Defeated Miguel Zambrano of Czechoslovakia by superiority, 0.5 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Chris Taylor of United States by points, 3.5 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Stanislaw Makowiecki of Poland by fall, 3.5 pen
*# Round 4 - Defeated Peter Germer of East Germany by points, 4.5 pen
*# Round 5 - Lost to Alexander Medved of Soviet Union by fall, 8.5 pen, Eliminated

Greco-Roman

Men's 48 kg:
* Rahim Ali-Abadi - Silver medal
*# Round 1 - Defeated Hizir Sari of Turkey by fall, 0 pen
*# Round 2 - Defeated Habib Dlimi of Tunisia by fall, 0 pen
*# Round 3 - Defeated Günter Maas of West Germany by points, 1 pen
*# Round 4 - Lost to Kazuharu Ishida of Japan by superiority, 4.5 pen
*# Round 5 - Defeated Raimo Hirvonen of Finland by superiority, 5 pen
*# Final 1 - Lost to Gheorghe Berceanu of Romania by points, 3 pen
*# Final 2 - Defeated Stefan Angelov of Bulgaria by fall, 3 pen

Men's 52 kg:
* Mehdi Houryar - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to Petar Kirov of Bulgaria by fall, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Miroslav Zeman of Czechoslovakia by points, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:
* Firouz Alizadeh - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Lost to Ikuei Yamamoto of Japan by fall, 4 pen
*# Round 2 - Did not show, Eliminated

Men's 68 kg:
* Mohammad Dalirian - Eliminated
*# Round 1 - Defeated Sotirios Nakos of Greece by points, 1 pen
*# Round 2 - Lost to Stoyan Apostolov of Bulgaria by fall, 5 pen
*# Round 3 - Lost to Andrzej Supron of Poland by fall, 9 pen, Eliminated

External links

* [http://www.ir-iran-olympic.com/english/e-information2/olympic/1972.html National Olympic Committee of Iran - 1972 Summer Olympics Results for Iran]