Iran at the 1958 Asian Games

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Iran at the
1958 Asian Games
State Flag of Iran (1933-1964).svg
IOC codeIRN
NOCNational Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Websitewww.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in Tokyo
Competitors81 in 11 sports
Flag bearerMahmoud Namjoo
Medals
Ranked 4th
Gold
7
Silver
14
Bronze
11
Total
32
Asian Games appearances (overview)

Iran participated in the 1958 Asian Games held in the capital city of Tokyo, Japan. This country is ranked 4th with 7 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.[1]

Competitors[]

Sport Men Women Total
Aquatics, Diving 2 2
Aquatics, Swimming 3 3
Athletics 8 2 10
Boxing 9 9
Cycling, Track 1 1
Football 18 18
Shooting 4 4
Table tennis 4 2 6
Tennis 4 4
Volleyball 8 8
Weightlifting 8 8
Wrestling 8 8
Total 77 4 81

Medal summary[]

Medal table[]

Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total
Aquatics, Diving 0 0 2 2
Athletics 1 1 2 4
Boxing 0 3 3 6
Cycling, Track 0 2 0 2
Table tennis 0 0 1 1
Volleyball 0 1 0 1
Weightlifting 3 4 1 8
Wrestling 3 3 2 8
Total 7 14 11 32

Medalists[]

Medal Name Sport Event
 Gold Athletics Men's 1500 m
 Gold Jalal Mansouri Weightlifting Men's 82.5 kg
 Gold Hassan Rahnavardi Weightlifting Men's 90 kg
 Gold Firouz Pojhan Weightlifting Men's +90 kg
 Gold Emam-Ali Habibi Wrestling Men's freestyle 67 kg
 Gold Gholamreza Takhti Wrestling Men's freestyle 87 kg
 Gold Abbas Zandi Wrestling Men's freestyle +87 kg
 Silver Athletics Men's 800 m
 Silver Vazik Kazarian Boxing Men's 63.5 kg
 Silver Soren Pirjanian Boxing Men's 67 kg
 Silver Amir Yavari Boxing Men's 71 kg
 Silver Cycling, Track Men's sprint
 Silver Cycling, Track Men's 1 km time trial
 Silver






Volleyball Men
 Silver Esmaeil Elmkhah Weightlifting Men's 52 kg
 Silver Mahmoud Namjoo Weightlifting Men's 56 kg
 Silver Ali Safa-Sonboli Weightlifting Men's 60 kg
 Silver Ebrahim Peiravi Weightlifting Men's 75 kg
 Silver Wrestling Men's freestyle 52 kg
 Silver Tofigh Jahanbakht Wrestling Men's freestyle 73 kg
 Silver Nabi Sorouri Wrestling Men's freestyle 79 kg
 Bronze Manouchehr Fasihi Aquatics, Diving Men's 3 m springboard
 Bronze Aquatics, Diving Men's 10 m platform
 Bronze Ali Baghbanbashi Athletics Men's 5000 m
 Bronze Ali Baghbanbashi Athletics Men's 10,000 m
 Bronze Ezaria Ilkhanoff Boxing Men's 51 kg
 Bronze Leon Khachatourian Boxing Men's 75 kg
 Bronze Akbar Khojini Boxing Men's 81 kg
 Bronze


Table tennis Men's team
 Bronze Henrik Tamraz Weightlifting Men's 67.5 kg
 Bronze Wrestling Men's freestyle 57 kg
 Bronze Nasser Givehchi Wrestling Men's freestyle 62 kg

Results by event[]

Aquatics[]

Diving[]

Main article: Diving at the 1958 Asian Games

Swimming[]

Main article: Swimming at the 1958 Asian Games

Athletics[]

Main article: Athletics at the 1958 Asian Games

Boxing[]

Main article: Boxing at the 1958 Asian Games
The National Iranian Boxing Team standing, prior to being sent to The Third Asian Games in Tokyo 1958

This was the first time Iranian boxers were participating in an official Asian tournament, such as the Asian Games, with 9 boxers, the most boxers after the Japanese boxing team. In the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, the Iranian boxing team managed to bag a total of 6 medals, including three silver medals, three bronze medals, and also obtained three fifth places.[2] The consequence of this participation resulted in Iran's boxing team to rank second, considering medal counts, and fifth, in the overall boxing table, helping Iran Sports Convoy to rank fourth, overall in the Third Asian Games, which was applauded by the Iranian officials.[3]

The Iranian national boxing team, which consisted of boxers from Tehran Taj club and Tehran Jafari club, was coached by Petros Nazarbegian,[4][5] and the team members were: Ezaria Ilkhanoff (Persian: ایزاریا ایلخانوف) in the Flyweight division (bronze medal),[6] Karapet Kochar (Persian: کاراپت کوچار) in the Bantamweight division (fifth place), Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh (Persian: صادق علی اکبرزاده) in the Featherweight division (fifth place),[7] Hassan Pakandam (Persian: حسن پاک اندام) in the Lightweight division (fifth place),[8] Vazik Kazarian (Persian: وازیک قازاریان) in the Light-Welterweight division (silver medal),[9] Soren Pirjanian (Persian: سورن پیرجانیان) in the Welterweight division (silver medal),[10] Amir Yavari (captain) (Persian: امیر یاوری) in the Light-middleweight division (silver medal),[11] Leon Khachatourian (Persian: لئون خاچاطوریان) in the Middleweight division (bronze medal),[12] Akbar Khojini (Persian: اکبرخوجینی) in the Light heavyweight division (bronze medal), (no participant in the Heavyweight division).[13]

Men
Athlete Event Round 1 Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Ezaria Ilkhanoff 51 kg   (PHI)
W Points 		 Hla ()
L Points 		Did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
54 kg Bye   (JPN)
L Points 		Did not advance 5
Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh 57 kg Bye   (JPN)
L Points 		Did not advance 5
Hassan Pakandam 60 kg  Chung (KOR)
L Points 		Did not advance 5
Vazik Kazarian 63.5 kg Bye  Chundakowsolaya (THA)
W Points 		  (JPN)
L Points 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Soren Pirjanian 67 kg   (PHI)
W Points 		  (JPN)
W Points 		 Kim (KOR)
L Points 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Amir Yavari 71 kg Bye  Hussain (PAK)
W Points 		 Takahashi (JPN)
L Points 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Leon Khachatourian 75 kg   (IND)
L Points 		Did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Akbar Khojini 81 kg  Mahmood (PAK)
L Points 		Did not advance 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)

Cycling[]

Main article: Cycling at the 1958 Asian Games

Football[]

Main article: Football at the 1958 Asian Games

Shooting[]

Main article: Shooting at the 1958 Asian Games

Table tennis[]

Main article: Table tennis at the 1958 Asian Games

Tennis[]

Main article: Tennis at the 1958 Asian Games
Men
Athlete Event 1st round 2nd round 3rd round Quarterfinal Semifinal Final Rank
Singles Bye   ()
L 0–2
2–6, 2–6 		Did not advance 17
Singles  Ishiguro (JPN)
L 0–2
0–6, 2–6 		Did not advance 33
Singles   (PHI)
L 0–2
1–6, 2–6 		Did not advance 33
Singles Bye   ()
L 1–2
9–7, 2–6, 1–6 		Did not advance 17

Doubles   ()
  ()
L 1–2
9–7, 4–6, 0–6 		Did not advance 17

Doubles   (VNM)
  (VNM)
L 1–2
9–7, 4–6, 3–6 		Did not advance 17

Volleyball[]

Main article: Volleyball at the 1958 Asian Games

Weightlifting[]

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1958 Asian Games
Men
Athlete Event Press Snatch Clean & Jerk Total Rank
Esmaeil Elmkhah 52 kg 87.5 85.0 105.0 277.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Mahmoud Namjoo 56 kg 100.0 95.0 120.0 315.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Ali Safa-Sonboli 60 kg 107.5 102.5 132.5 342.5 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Henrik Tamraz 67.5 kg 112.5 112.5 145.0 370.0 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Ebrahim Peiravi 75 kg 115.0 117.5 147.5 380.0 2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Jalal Mansouri 82.5 kg 127.5 122.5 150.0 400.0 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Hassan Rahnavardi 90 kg 140.0 127.5 165.0 432.5 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Firouz Pojhan +90 kg 152.5 132.5 175.0 460.0 1st place, gold medalist(s)

Wrestling[]

Main article: Wrestling at the 1958 Asian Games
Men's freestyle
Athlete Event First round Second round Third round Final round Rank
52 kg Bye   (PHI)
W Fall 		  (JPN)
L Points 		  (PAK)
W Points 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
57 kg  Im (KOR)
W Points 		 Iizuka (JPN)
D Points 		 Tumasis (PHI)
W Fall 		 Akhtar (PAK)
L Points 		3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Nasser Givehchi 62 kg   (PHI)
W Fall 		 Din (PAK)
D Points 		  (JPN)
L Points 		Bye 3rd place, bronze medalist(s)
Emam-Ali Habibi 67 kg  Ashraf (PAK)
W Fall 		 Bong (KOR)
W Points 		 Abe (JPN)
W Points 		Bye 1st place, gold medalist(s)
Tofigh Jahanbakht 73 kg  Choi (KOR)
W Fall 		 Kaneko (JPN)
D Points 		Bye  Bashir (PAK)
W Points 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Nabi Sorouri 79 kg  Nagai (JPN)
D Points 		  ()
W Fall 		  (PAK)
W Points 		 Arcales (PHI)
W Fall 		2nd place, silver medalist(s)
Gholamreza Takhti 87 kg   ()
W Fall 		  (KOR)
W Fall 		  (PAK)
W Fall 		  (JPN)
W Fall 		1st place, gold medalist(s)
Abbas Zandi +87 kg  Ohira (JPN)
W Points 		 Nazir (PAK)
D Points 		Bye 1st place, gold medalist(s)

References[]

  1. ^ 3rd Asian Games medal tally Archived 2007-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
  2. ^ http://vista.ir/article/278400("Iranian Boxing in the Asian Games", Vista News Hub, The Online Source for the Most Important Iranian News Headlines)(Persian)
  3. ^ http://www.ghahremanan.ir/d.asp?id=25398("Iranian Sport Convoy Shines in the 1958 Asian Games", Official Web-site for Iranian Sports Retired Champions, Days in History, June 16, 1958)(Persian)
  4. ^ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2014-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
  5. ^ کتاب تاریخچه بوکس ایران از 1324 تا 1357، جلد اول، ناشر: بامداد کتاب، نویسنده محمود مساعدیان، چاپ اول، 1388، شابک 9789642060337، تعداد صفحه 430 (History of Boxing in Iran from 1945 to 1979,First Volume,First Edition,By: Bamdad Ketaab, Author: Mahmood Mosaadian,2009,ISBN 9789642060337,430 pages)(Persian)
  6. ^ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2016-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
  7. ^ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2014-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  8. ^ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2013-09-23 at the Wayback Machine
  9. ^ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2014-10-13 at the Wayback Machine
  10. ^ www.middleeastexplorer.com Archived 2014-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
  11. ^ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2014-10-14 at the Wayback Machine
  12. ^ www.middleeastexplorer.com Archived 2014-09-13 at the Wayback Machine
  13. ^ http://amateur-boxing.strefa.pl/Championships/AsianGames1958.html
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