Iran at the 1956 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Iran
games=1956 Summer
competitors=17
sports=3
flagbearer=Mahmoud Namjoo
gold=2
silver=2
bronze=1
total=5
rank=14

Iran competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia.

Medalists

Gold

* Imam-Ali Habibi - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 67 kg
* Gholamreza Takhti - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 87 kg

Silver

* Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 52 kg
* Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 57 kg

Bronze

* Mahmoud Namjoo - Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's marathon
*Ali Baghbanbashi - Did not finishMen's decathlon
*Najmeddin Farabi - 12th place, 5103 points

=Weightlifting=

Men's 56 kg:
*Mahmoud Namjoo - Bronze medal, 332.5 kg

Men's 60 kg:
*Hossein Zarrini - 13th place, 305 kg

Men's 67.5 kg:
*Henrik Tamraz - 5th place, 365 kg

Men's 75 kg:
*Ebrahim Peyravi - 7th place, 372.5 kg

Men's 82.5 kg:
*Mansour Ghaffarzadeh - 4th place, 417.5 kg

Men's 82.5 kg:
*Mohammad Hassan Rahnavardi - 4th place, 425 kg

Men's +90 kg:
*Firouz Pojhan - 4th place, 450 kg

=Wrestling=

Freestyle

Men's 52 kg:
* Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour - Silver medal
*# 1st round - Bye
*# 2nd round - Defeated Luigi Chinazzo of Italy by points, 1 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Richard Delgado of United States by points, 2 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Tadashi Asai of Japan by points, 3 pen
*# 5th round - Defeated Huseyin Akbas of Turkey by points, 4 pen
*# 6th round - Lost to Mirian Tsalkalamanidze of Soviet Union by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:
* Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi - Silver medal
*# 1st round - Defeated Mikhail Chakhov of Soviet Union by points, 1 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Geoffrey Jameson of Australia by fall, 1 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Tarakeshwar Pandey of India by fall, 1 pen
*# 4th round - Lost to Mustafa Dağıstanlı of Turkey by points, 4 pen
*# 5th round - Defeated Lee Sang-Kyoon of South Korea by points, 5 pen

Men's 62 kg:
* Naser Givehchi - 6th place
*# 1st round - Defeated Abraham Geldenhuys of South Africa by points, 1 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Herbert Hall of Great Britain by fall, 1 pen
*# 3rd round - Lost to Erkki Penttilä of Finland by points, 4 pen
*# 4th round - Lost to Bayram Sit of Turkey by points, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 67 kg:
* Imam-Ali Habibi - Gold medal
*# 1st round - Defeated Olle Anderberg of Sweden by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Gyula Toth of Hungary by points, 1 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Roger Bielle of France by points, 2 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Garibaldo Nizzola of Italy by points, 3 pen
*# 5th round - Defeated Shigeru Kasahara of Japan by points, 4 pen
*# 6th round - Defeated Alimberg Bestayev of Soviet Union by fall, 4 pen

Men's 73 kg:
* Nabi Sorouri - 4th place
*# 1st round - Defeated Devi Singh of India by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Lost to William Fischer of United States by points, 3 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Mitiou Petkov of Bulgaria by points, 4 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Coenraad de Villiers of South Africa by points, 5 pen, Eliminated

Men's 79 kg:
* Abbas Zandi - Eliminated
*# 1st round - Defeated Kazuo Katsuramoto of Japan by points, 1 pen
*# 2nd round - Bye
*# 3rd round - Lost to Ismet Atli of Turkey by points, 4 pen
*# 4th round - Lost to Daniel Hodge of United States by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 87 kg:
* Gholamreza Takhti - Gold medal
*# 1st round - Defeated Jacob Louis Theron of South Africa by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Robert Steckle of Canada by fall, 0 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Mitsuhiro Ohira of Japan by fall, 0 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Kevin Coote of Australia by fall, 0 pen
*# 5th round - Defeated Boris Kulayev of Soviet Union by points, 1 pen
*# 6th round - Bye
*# 7th round - Defeated Peter Blair of United States by points, 2 pen

Men's +87 kg:
* Hossein Nouri - Eliminated
*# 1st round - Lost to Hussein Mehmedov of Bulgaria by points, 3 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated John Walter Silva of New Zealand by points, 4 pen
*# 3rd round - Lost to Hamit Kaplan of Turkey by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

References

* [http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Reports]
* [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]