Iran at the Olympics

Iran at the Olympics
IOC code	IRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
Medals Ranked 33rd	Gold 24 Silver 23 Bronze 29 Total 76
Summer appearances
1900 1904–1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980–1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020
Winter appearances
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980–1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1979, first participated at the Olympic Games in 1900. Iran has sent athletes to compete in every Summer Olympic Games since 1948, except for 1980 and 1984 due to political boycotts. Iran has also participated in the Winter Olympic Games on several occasions since 1956.

Iran has participated in 18 Olympics so far. Iran participated in 9 Summer Olympics and gained 4 gold medals before that 1979 Revolution, also Iran participated in 9 Summer Olympics and it won 20 gold medals after the revolution.

Freydoun Malkom, a fencer who competed in the épée event in the 1900 Summer Olympics, was the first Iranian Olympic competitor. Iranian athletes have won a total of 76 medals, all in wrestling, weightlifting, taekwondo, athletics, shooting, and karate. Iran's National Olympic Committee was founded in 1947.

Medal tables[]

Medals by Summer Games[]

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1900 Paris	1	0	0	0	0	—
1904 St. Louis	Did not participate
1908 London
1912 Stockholm
1920 Antwerp
1924 Paris
1928 Amsterdam
1932 Los Angeles
1936 Berlin
1948 London	36	0	0	1	1	34
1952 Helsinki	22	0	3	4	7	30
1956 Melbourne	17	2	2	1	5	14
1960 Rome	25	0	1	3	4	27
1964 Tokyo	63	0	0	3	3	34
1968 Mexico City	14	2	1	2	5	19
1972 Munich	50	0	2	1	3	28
1976 Montreal	86	0	1	1	2	33
1980 Moscow	Did not participate
1984 Los Angeles
1988 Seoul	27	0	1	0	1	36
1992 Barcelona	40	0	1	2	3	44
1996 Atlanta	18	1	1	1	3	43
2000 Sydney	35	3	0	1	4	27
2004 Athens	38	2	2	2	6	29
2008 Beijing	55	1	0	1	2	52
2012 London	53	7	5	1	13	12
2016 Rio de Janeiro	63	3	1	4	8	25
2020 Tokyo	65	3	2	2	7	27
2024 Paris	Future Event
2028 Los Angeles
2032 Brisbane
Total		24	23	29	76	40

Medals by Winter Games[]

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo	3	0	0	0	0	—
1960 Squaw Valley	Did not participate
1964 Innsbruck	4	0	0	0	0	—
1968 Grenoble	4	0	0	0	0	—
1972 Sapporo	4	0	0	0	0	—
1976 Innsbruck	4	0	0	0	0	—
1980 Lake Placid	Did not participate
1984 Sarajevo
1988 Calgary
1992 Albertville
1994 Lillehammer
1998 Nagano	1	0	0	0	0	—
2002 Salt Lake City	2	0	0	0	0	—
2006 Turin	2	0	0	0	0	—
2010 Vancouver	4	0	0	0	0	—
2014 Sochi	5	0	0	0	0	—
2018 Pyeongchang	4	0	0	0	0	—
2022 Beijing	3	0	0	0	0	–
2026 Milan–Cortina	Future Event
Total		0	0	0	0	—

Medals by sport[]

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Wrestling	11	15	21	47
Weightlifting	9	6	5	20
Taekwondo	2	1	3	6
Shooting	1	0	0	1
Karate	1	0	0	1
Athletics	0	1	0	1
Total	24	23	29	76

List of medalists[]

Medal	Name	Games	Sport	Event	Date
Bronze	Jafar Salmasi	1948 London	Weightlifting	Men's 60 kg	019 August 1948
Silver	Gholamreza Takhti	1952 Helsinki	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 79 kg	0423 July 1952
Silver	Nasser Givehchi	1952 Helsinki	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg	0523 July 1952
Silver	Mahmoud Namjoo	1952 Helsinki	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	0725 July 1952
Bronze	Mahmoud Mollaghasemi	1952 Helsinki	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg	0223 July 1952
Bronze	Abdollah Mojtabavi	1952 Helsinki	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 73 kg	0323 July 1952
Bronze	Tofigh Jahanbakht	1952 Helsinki	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 67 kg	0623 July 1952
Bronze	Ali Mirzaei	1952 Helsinki	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	0825 July 1952
Gold	Emam-Ali Habibi	1956 Melbourne	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 67 kg	121 December 1956
Gold	Gholamreza Takhti	1956 Melbourne	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 87 kg	131 December 1956
Silver	Mehdi Yaghoubi	1956 Melbourne	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg	101 December 1956
Silver	Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour	1956 Melbourne	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg	111 December 1956
Bronze	Mahmoud Namjoo	1956 Melbourne	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	0923 November 1956
Silver	Gholamreza Takhti	1960 Rome	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 87 kg	156 September 1960
Bronze	Mohammad Paziraei	1960 Rome	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg	1431 August 1960
Bronze	Ebrahim Seifpour	1960 Rome	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg	166 September 1960
Bronze	Esmaeil Elmkhah	1960 Rome	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	177 September 1960
Bronze	Ali Akbar Heidari	1964 Tokyo	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg	1814 October 1964
Bronze	Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran	1964 Tokyo	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 78 kg	1914 October 1964
Gold	Mohammad Nassiri	1968 Mexico City	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	2013 October 1968
Gold	Abdollah Movahed	1968 Mexico City	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 70 kg	2220 October 1968
Silver	Parviz Jalayer	1968 Mexico City	Weightlifting	Men's 67.5 kg	2115 October 1968
Bronze	Aboutaleb Talebi	1968 Mexico City	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg	2320 October 1968
Bronze	Shamseddin Seyed-Abbasi	1968 Mexico City	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 63 kg	2420 October 1968
Silver	Mohammad Nassiri	1972 Munich	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg	2528 August 1972
Silver	Rahim Aliabadi	1972 Munich	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg	2710 September 1972
Bronze	Ebrahim Javadi	1972 Munich	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 48 kg	2631 August 1972
Silver	Mansour Barzegar	1976 Montreal	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg	2931 July 1976
Bronze	Mohammad Nassiri	1976 Montreal	Weightlifting	Men's 52 kg	2818 July 1976
Silver	Askari Mohammadian	1988 Seoul	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg	301 October 1988
Silver	Askari Mohammadian	1992 Barcelona	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg	327 August 1992
Bronze	Amir Reza Khadem	1992 Barcelona	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg	316 August 1992
Bronze	Rasoul Khadem	1992 Barcelona	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 82 kg	337 August 1992
Gold	Rasoul Khadem	1996 Atlanta	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 90 kg	362 August 1996
Silver	Abbas Jadidi	1996 Atlanta	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 100 kg	3531 July 1996
Bronze	Amir Reza Khadem	1996 Atlanta	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 82 kg	3431 July 1996
Gold	Hossein Tavakkoli	2000 Sydney	Weightlifting	Men's 105 kg	3725 September 2000
Gold	Hossein Rezazadeh	2000 Sydney	Weightlifting	Men's +105 kg	3826 September 2000
Gold	Alireza Dabir	2000 Sydney	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 58 kg	401 October 2000
Bronze	Hadi Saei	2000 Sydney	Taekwondo	Men's 68 kg	3928 September 2000
Gold	Hossein Rezazadeh	2004 Athens	Weightlifting	Men's +105 kg	4125 August 2004
Gold	Hadi Saei	2004 Athens	Taekwondo	Men's 68 kg	4227 August 2004
Silver	Alireza Rezaei	2004 Athens	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 120 kg	4428 August 2004
Silver	Masoud Mostafa-Jokar	2004 Athens	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 60 kg	4529 August 2004
Bronze	Yousef Karami	2004 Athens	Taekwondo	Men's 80 kg	4328 August 2004
Bronze	Alireza Heidari	2004 Athens	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 96 kg	4629 August 2004
Gold	Hadi Saei	2008 Beijing	Taekwondo	Men's 80 kg	4822 August 2008
Bronze	Morad Mohammadi	2008 Beijing	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 60 kg	4719 August 2008
Gold	Saeid Mohammadpour	2012 London	Weightlifting	Men's 94 kg	504 August 2012[b]
Gold	Hamid Sourian	2012 London	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 55 kg	515 August 2012
Gold	Omid Norouzi	2012 London	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg	526 August 2012
Gold	Navab Nassirshalal	2012 London	Weightlifting	Men's 105 kg	536 August 2012[d]
Gold	Ghasem Rezaei	2012 London	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg	547 August 2012
Gold	Behdad Salimi	2012 London	Weightlifting	Men's +105 kg	557 August 2012
Gold	Komeil Ghasemi	2012 London	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 120 kg	6111 August 2012[c]
Silver	Kianoush Rostami	2012 London	Weightlifting	Men's 85 kg	493 August 2012[a]
Silver	Sajjad Anoushiravani	2012 London	Weightlifting	Men's +105 kg	567 August 2012
Silver	Ehsan Haddadi	2012 London	Athletics	Men's discus throw	577 August 2012
Silver	Mohammad Bagheri Motamed	2012 London	Taekwondo	Men's 68 kg	589 August 2012
Silver	Sadegh Goudarzi	2012 London	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg	5910 August 2012
Bronze	Ehsan Lashgari	2012 London	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 84 kg	6011 August 2012
Gold	Kianoush Rostami	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Weightlifting	Men's 85 kg	6212 August 2016
Gold	Sohrab Moradi	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Weightlifting	Men's 94 kg	6313 August 2016
Gold	Hassan Yazdani	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg	6819 August 2016
Silver	Komeil Ghasemi	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 125 kg	6920 August 2016
Bronze	Saeid Abdevali	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 75 kg	6414 August 2016
Bronze	Ghasem Rezaei	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 98 kg	6516 August 2016
Bronze	Kimia Alizadeh	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Taekwondo	Women's 57 kg	6618 August 2016
Bronze	Hassan Rahimi	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg	6719 August 2016
Gold	Javad Foroughi	2020 Tokyo	Shooting	Men's 10 m air pistol	7024 July 2021
Gold	Mohammad Reza Geraei	2020 Tokyo	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg	724 August 2021
Gold	Sajjad Ganjzadeh	2020 Tokyo	Karate	Men's kumite +75 kg	767 August 2021
Silver	Ali Davoudi	2020 Tokyo	Weightlifting	Men's +109 kg	734 August 2021
Silver	Hassan Yazdani	2020 Tokyo	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 86 kg	745 August 2021
Bronze	Mohammad Hadi Saravi	2020 Tokyo	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 97 kg	713 August 2021
Bronze	Amir Hossein Zare	2020 Tokyo	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 125 kg	756 August 2021

• ^a Kianoush Rostami originally won the bronze medal, but was upgraded to silver on 26 November 2016 after the original silver medalist tested positive for doping.
• ^b Saeid Mohammadpour originally finished 5th, but was upgraded to the gold medal position on 20 December 2016 since the top four weightlifters tested positive for doping.
• ^c Komeil Ghasemi originally won the bronze medal, but was upgraded to gold on 26 July 2019 after the original gold and silver medalists tested positive for doping.
• ^d Navab Nassirshalal originally won the silver medal, but was upgraded to gold on 19 December 2019 after the original gold medalist tested positive for doping.

Athletes with most medals[]

#	Athlete	Sport	Games				Total
1	Hadi Saei	Taekwondo	2000–2008	2	0	1	3
2	Hossein Rezazadeh	Weightlifting	2000–2004	2	0	0	2
3	Gholamreza Takhti	Wrestling	1952–1964	1	2	0	3
4	Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	1968–1976	1	1	1	3
5	Komeil Ghasemi	Wrestling	2012–2016	1	1	0	2
5	Kianoush Rostami	Weightlifting	2012–2016	1	1	0	2
5	Hassan Yazdani	Wrestling	2016–2020	1	1	0	2
8	Rasoul Khadem	Wrestling	1992–1996	1	0	1	2
8	Ghasem Rezaei	Wrestling	2012–2016	1	0	1	2
10	Askari Mohammadian	Wrestling	1988–1992	0	2	0	2
11	Mahmoud Namjoo	Weightlifting	1952–1956	0	1	1	2
12	Amir Reza Khadem	Wrestling	1992–1996	0	0	2	2

Sport by year[]

Summer Olympics[]

Sport	00	48	52	56	60	64	68	72	76	88	92	96	00	04	08	12	16	20	Years
Aquatics, Diving						1													1
Aquatics, Swimming						1						1	1	1	1	1	1	1	8
Aquatics, Water polo									11										1
Archery															2	2	1	1	4
Athletics			1	2	1	8	1	3	4	1	2	1	1	2	6	10	10	3	16
Badminton															1			1	2
Basketball		13													12			12	3
Boxing		8	6		4	5		5	6		6	4	5	1	3	4	1	2	14
Canoeing, Sprint													1			2	1	1	4
Cycling, Road						4		4	6	6	4		2	2	3	3	3	1	11
Cycling, Track								4	2	2	4			2					5
Equestrian													1						1
Fencing	1					4		2	13							1	2	4	7
Football						17		19	17										3
Gymnastics, Artistic						2													1
Judo												1	3	7	6	1	2		6
Karate																		3	1
Rowing															2	2	1	1	4
Shooting		3			1	4			4			1	1	1		3	5	6	10
Table tennis											1		1	1	1	2	3	1	7
Taekwondo										4	3		2	2	3	3	4	3	6
Volleyball																	12	12	2
Weightlifting		5	7	7	7	5	4	3	7		5		6	6	3	6	5	2	15
Wrestling		7	8	8	12	12	9	14	17	15	16	10	11	13	12	13	12	11	17
Total	1	36	22	17	25	63	14	50	86	27	40	18	35	38	55	53	63	65	18

Winter Olympics[]

Sport	56	64	68	72	76	98	02	06	10	14	18	Years
Skiing, Alpine	3	4	4	4	4	1	1	1	3	3	2	11
Skiing, Cross-country							1	1	1	2	2	5
Total	3	4	4	4	4	1	2	2	4	5	4	11

See also[]

• List of flag bearers for Iran at the Olympics
• Category:Olympic competitors for Iran
• Iran at the Asian Games

External links[]

• "Islamic Republic of Iran". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
• "Iran". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/IRI". olympanalyt.com.