Iran, formerly known as Persia before 1935 and officially the Islamic Republic of Iran since 1979, first participated in 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 at the Olympics | |
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| IOC code | IRI |
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 39th |
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| Summer appearances | |
| Winter appearances | |
Iran has participated in 19 Summer Olympics and 12 Winter Olympics so far. Iran participated in 9 Summer Olympics and gained 4 gold medals before the 1979 Revolution, and participated in 10 Summer Olympics and won 23 gold medals after the revolution.[1][2]
Freydoun Malkom, a fencer who competed in the épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics, was the first Iranian Olympic competitor. Jafar Salmasi won Iran's first Olympic medal in 1948, and Kimia Alizadeh was the first Iranian female Olympic medalist, having done so in 2016. Iranian athletes have won a total of 88 Summer Olympic medals, all in wrestling, weightlifting, taekwondo, athletics, shooting, and karate. Iran's National Olympic Committee was founded in 1947.
Medal tables
editMedals by Summer Games
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| Games | Athletes | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 1896 Athens |
did not participate | |||||
 1900 Paris |
1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
 1904 St. Louis |
did not participate | |||||
 1908 London
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 1912 Stockholm
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 1920 Antwerp
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| 1924 Paris
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 1928 Amsterdam
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 1932 Los Angeles
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 1936 Berlin
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| 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 | 2 | 2 | 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
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 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 | 24 |
 2020 Tokyo |
65 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 27 |
| 2024 Paris |
41 | 3 | 6 | 3 | 12 | 21 |
| 2028 Los Angeles |
future event | |||||
| 2032 Brisbane
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| Total (19/30) | 749 | 27 | 29 | 32 | 88 | 39 |
Medals by Winter Games
edit| 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
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| 1988 Calgary
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| 1992 Albertville
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 1994 Lillehammer
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| 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 Milano Cortina |
future event | |||||
| 2030 French Alps
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| 2034 Salt Lake City
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| Total (12/24) | 40 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — |
Medals by sport
edit| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 Wrestling |
13 | 19 | 23 | 55 |
 Weightlifting |
9 | 6 | 5 | 20 |
 Taekwondo |
3 | 3 | 4 | 10 |
 Shooting |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Karate |
1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
 Athletics |
0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Total (6) | 27 | 29 | 32 | 88 |
List of medalists
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- 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
edit- Athletes in bold are still active with Iran.
| # | Athlete | Sport | Games | 
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Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hadi Saei | Taekwondo
|
2000–2008 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| 2 | Hossein Rezazadeh | Weightlifting
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2000–2004 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| 3 | Gholamreza Takhti | Wrestling
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1952–1964 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Hassan Yazdani | Wrestling
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2016–2024 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 | |
| 5 | Mohammad Nassiri | Weightlifting
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1968–1976 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| 6 | Komeil Ghasemi | Wrestling
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2012–2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kianoush Rostami | Weightlifting
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2012–2016 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
| 8 | Rasoul Khadem | Wrestling
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1992–1996 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Ghasem Rezaei | Wrestling
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2012–2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| Mohammad Hadi Saravi | Wrestling
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2020–2024 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | |
| 11 | Askari Mohammadian | Wrestling
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1988–1992 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 12 | Mahmoud Namjoo | Weightlifting
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1952–1956 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Amir Hossein Zare | Wrestling
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2020–2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | |
| 14 | Amir Reza Khadem | Wrestling
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1992–1996 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
Sport by year
editSummer Olympics
edit| Sport | 00 | 48 | 52 | 56 | 60 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 88 | 92 | 96 | 00 | 04 | 08 | 12 | 16 | 20 | 24 | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Aquatics, Diving
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1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Aquatics, Swimming
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1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 9 | ||||||||||
 Aquatics, Water polo
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11 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Archery
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2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
 Athletics
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1 | 2 | 1 | 8 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 3 | 2 | 17 | ||
 Badminton
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1 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 Basketball
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13 | 12 | 12 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
 Boxing
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8 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 14 | |||||
 Canoeing, Sprint
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1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
 Cycling, Road
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4 | 4 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 12 | |||||||
 Cycling, Track
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2 | 5 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Equestrian
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1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Fencing
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1 | 4 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 8 | |||||||||||
 Football
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17 | 19 | 17 | 3 | ||||||||||||||||
 Gymnastics, Artistic
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2 | 1 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 Judo
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1 | 3 | 7 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 6 | |||||||||||||
 Karate
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3 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Rowing
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2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||||||||
 Shooting
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3 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 6 | 4 | 11 | ||||||||
 Sport climbing
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1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||
 Table tennis
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1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |||||||||||
 Taekwondo
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4 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 4 | 7 | ||||||||||
 Volleyball
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12 | 12 | 2 | |||||||||||||||||
 Weightlifting
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5 | 7 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 3 | 7 | 5 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 16 | |||
 Wrestling
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7 | 8 | 8 | 12 | 12 | 9 | 14 | 17 | 15 | 16 | 10 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 11 | 12 | 18 | |
| Total | 1 | 36 | 22 | 17 | 23 | 63 | 14 | 50 | 86 | 27 | 40 | 18 | 35 | 38 | 55 | 53 | 63 | 65 | 41 | 19 |
Winter Olympics
edit| Sport | 56 | 64 | 68 | 72 | 76 | 98 | 02 | 06 | 10 | 14 | 18 | 22 | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Skiing, Alpine
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3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 12 |
 Skiing, Cross-country
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1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| Total | 3 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 11 |
See also
editReferences
edit- ^ "Olympics wrestling: Omid Noroozi wins Iran's second Greco gold". Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Kimia Alizadeh Zenoorin wins landmark bronze for Iran". Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ "Salmassi: The teacher who won Iran's first Olympic medal". Retrieved 2 October 2023.
- ^ "Rio Olympics 2016: Iran's Hassan Yazdani wins -74kg gold after stunning fightback". Retrieved 2 October 2023.
External links
edit- "Islamic Republic of Iran". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
- "Iran". Olympedia.com.
- "Olympic Analytics/IRI". olympanalyt.com.