Iran at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Iran
games=2004 Summer
competitors=38
sports=10
flagbearer=Arash Miresmaeili
gold=2
silver=2
bronze=2
total=6
rank=29

Athletes from the Islamic Republic of Iran competed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Greece.

Medalists

Gold

* Hadi Saei - Taekwondo, Men's 68 kg,
* Hossein Rezazadeh - Weightlifting, Men's +105 kg

Silver

* Masoud Mostafa Jokar - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 60 kg
* Alireza Rezaei - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 120 kg

Bronze

* Yossef Karami - Taekwondo, Men's 80 kg,
* Alireza Heidari - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 96 kg

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's 800 m:
* Sajjad Moradi - 61st place
*# Round 1 - 7th place in heat 6, 1:49.5, Did not advance

Men's discus throw:
* Abbas Samimi - 28th place
*# Qualifying round - 57.57 m, Did not advance

=Boxing=

Men's 60 kg:
* Mohammad Asheri - Eliminated
*# Round of 32 - Bye
*# Round of 16 - Lost to Domenico Valentino of Italy, 37-18

=Cycling=

Road cycling

Men's road race:
* Amir Zargari - Did not finish
* Abbas Saeidi Tanha - Did not finish

Track cycling

Men's individual pursuit:
* Hossein Askari - 15th place
*# Qualifying - 4:39.302, Did not advance

Men's points race:
* Mehdi Sohrabi - Did not finish

=Judo=

Men's 60 kg:
* Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh - 5th place
*# Round of 64 - Bye
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Jean Claude Cameroun of Cameroon by yuko
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Armen Nazaryan of Armenia by yuko
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Revazi Zintiridis of Greece by ippon
*# Semifinal - Lost to Nestor Khergiani of Georgia by waza-ari
*# Bronze medal match - Lost to Choi Min-Ho of South Korea by ippon

Men's 66 kg:
* Arash Miresmaeili - Eliminated
*# Round of 32 - Lost to Ehud Vaks of Israel by walkover

Men's 73 kg:
* Hamed Malekmohammadi - Eliminated
*# Round of 64 - Bye
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Saso Jereb of Slovenia by ippon
*# Round of 16 - Lost to Victor Bivol of Moldova by ippon
*# Repechage round of 32 - Defeated Richard Leon of Venezuela by ippon
*# Repechage round of 16 - Lost to Joao Neto of Portugal by ippon

Men's 81 kg:
* Reza Chah Khandagh - Eliminated
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Ricardo Echarte of Spain by ippon
*# Round of 16 - Lost to Roman Gontyuk of Ukraine by ippon
*# Repechage round of 32 - Lost to Adil Belgaid of Morocco by yuko

Men's 90 kg:
* Abbas Fallah - Eliminated
*# Round of 32 - Lost to Keith Morgan of Canada by ippon

Men's 100 kg:
* Masoud Khosravinejad - Eliminated
*# Round of 64 - Bye
*# Round of 32 - Lost to Dmitry Maksimov of Russia by waza-ari

Men's +100 kg:
* Mahmoud Miran - 5th place
*# Round of 64 - Bye
*# Round of 32 - Defeated Joel Brutus of Haiti by ippon
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Selim Tataroglu of Turkey by ippon
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Semir Pepic of Australia by ippon
*# Semifinal - Lost to Tamerlan Tmenov of Russia by ippon
*# Bronze medal match - Lost to Dennis van der Geest of Netherlands by ippon

=Shooting=

Women's 10 m air pistol:
* Nasim Hassanpour - 28th place
*# Qualification - 376 points, Did not advance

=Swimming=

Men's 100 m freestyle:
* Babak Farhoudi - 61st place
*# Heats - 56.42, Did not advance

=Table tennis=

Men's singles:
* Mohammad Reza Akhlaghpasand - Eliminated
*# Round of 128 - Lost to Thiago Monteiro of Brazil, 4-1

=Taekwondo=

Men's 68 kg:
* Hadi Saei - Gold medal
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Carlo Molfetta of Italy, Referee stop contest
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Diogo Silva of Brazil, 8-6
*# Semifinal - Defeated Song Myeong-Seob of South Korea, 9-9
*# Final - Defeated Huang Chih Hsiung of Chinese Taipei, 4-3

Men's 80 kg:
* Yossef Karami - Bronze medal
*# Round of 16 - Defeated Kriangkrai Noikoed of Thailand, 16-12
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Daniel Trenton of Australia, 13-9
*# Semifinal - Lost to Steven Lopez of United States, 7-6
*# Repechage semifinal - Defeated Hichem Hamdouni of Tunisia, 12-4
*# Bronze medal match - Defeated Rashad Ahmadov of Azerbaijan, 9-8

=Weightlifting=

Men's 69 kg:
* Mehdi Panzvan - No markMen's 77 kg:
* Mohammad Hossein Barkhah - 6th place, 357.5 kgMen's 94 kg:
* Shahin Nasirinia - 4th place, 392.5 kg
* Asghar Ebrahimi - 16th place, 355 kgMen's 105 kg:
* Mohsen Biranvand - No markMen's +105 kg:
* Hossein Rezazadeh - Gold medal, 472.5 kg

=Wrestling=

Freestyle

Men's 55 kg:
* Babak Nourzad - 16th place
*# Preliminary round - 3rd place in pool C, Did not advance
*## Lost to Bayaraagiin Naranbaatar of Mongolia, 6-0
*## Defeated Kim Hyo Sub of South Korea, 6-4

Men's 60 kg:
* Masoud Mostafa Jokar - Silver medal
*# Preliminary round - 1st place in pool E
*## Defeated Sahit Prizreni of Albania, 8-0
*## Defeated Besik Aslanasvili of Greece, 3-2
*# Quarterfinal - Bye
*# Semifinal - Defeated Kenji Inoue of Japan, 5-4
*# Final - Lost to Yandro Miguel Quintana of Cuba, 4-0

Men's 66 kg:
* Alireza Dabir - 18th place
*# Preliminary round - 3rd place in pool F, Did not advance
*## Lost to Makhach Murtazaliev of Russia, 4-0
*## Lost to Artur Tavkazakhov of Uzbekistan, 5-4

Men's 74 kg:
* Mehdi Hajizadeh - 13th place
*# Preliminary round - 2nd place in pool D, Did not advance
*## Defeated Gela Saghirashvili of Georgia, 7-5
*## Lost to Joe Williams of United States, 3-0

Men's 84 kg:
* Majid Khodaei - 5th place
*# Preliminary round - 1st place in pool A
*## Defeated Anuj Kumar Na of India, 5-1
*## Defeated Hidekazu Yokoyama of Japan, 8-1
*# Quarterfinal - Lost to Cael Sanderson of United States, 6-5
*# 5th place match - Defeated Lazaros Loizidis of Greece, 3-0

Men's 96 kg:
* Alireza Heidari - Bronze medal
*# Preliminary round - 1st place in pool D
*## Defeated Eldar Kurtanidze of Georgia, 3-2
*## Defeated Antoine Jaoude of Brazil, 10-0
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Rustam Aghayev of Azerbaijan, 5-0
*# Semifinal - Lost to Magomed Ibragimov of Uzbekistan, 6-4
*# Bronze medal match - Defeated Daniel Cormier of United States, 3-2

Men's 120 kg:
* Alireza Rezaei - Silver medal
*# Preliminary round - 1st place in pool F
*## Defeated Bozhidar Boyadzhiev of Bulgaria, 5-0
*## Defeated Usukhbayar Gelegjamts of Mongolia, 3-0
*## Defeated Barys Hrynkevich of Belarus, 7-0
*# Quarterfinal - Bye
*# Semifinal - Defeated Marid Mutalimov of Kazakhstan, 4-1
*# Final - Lost to Artur Taymazov of Uzbekistan, Fall

Greco-Roman

Men's 55 kg:
* Hassan Rangraz - 9th place
*# Preliminary round - 2nd place in pool B, Did not advance
*## Lost to Lazaro Rivas of Cuba, 6-4
*## Defeated Samir Benchenaf of Algeria, 10-0

Men's 60 kg:
* Ali Ashkani - 11th place
*# Preliminary round - 3rd place in pool G, Did not advance
*## Lost to Roberto Monzon of Cuba, 4-1
*## Lost to Seref Tufenk of Turkey, 3-1
*## Defeated Christos Gkikas of Greece, 6-1

Men's 66 kg:
* Parviz Zeidvand - Disqualified
*# Preliminary round - 1st place in pool D
*## Defeated Kanatbek Begaliev of Kyrgyzstan, 5-0
*## Defeated Moises Sanchez of Spain, 3-1
*# Quarterfinal - Lost to Farid Mansurov of Azerbaijan, 3-2
*# 5th place match - Did not show, Disqualified

Men's 84 kg:
* Behrouz Jamshidi - 9th place
*# Preliminary round - 2nd place in pool C, Did not advance
*## Lost to Dimitrios Avramis of Greece, 3-1
*## Defeated Fritz Aanes of Norway, 3-0

Men's 96 kg:
* Masoud Hashemzadeh - Disqualified
*# Preliminary round - 1st place in pool D
*## Defeated Petru Sudureac of Romania, 2-2
*## Defeated Mindaugas Ezerskis of Lithuania, Fall
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Genadi Chhaidze of Kyrgyzstan, 3-1
*# Semifinal - Lost to Ramaz Nozadze of Georgia, 4-2
*# Bronze medal match - Lost to Mehmet Ozal of Turkey, 3-2, Disqualified

Men's 120 kg:
* Sajjad Barzi - 4th place
*# Preliminary round - 1st place in pool B
*## Defeated Mihaly Deak-Bardos of Hungary, 3-1
*## Defeated Juha Ahokas of Finland, 2-1
*# Quarterfinal - Defeated Yannick Szczepaniak of France, 3-0
*# Semifinal - Lost to Khasan Baroyev of Russia, 4-0
*# Bronze medal match - Lost to Rulon Gardner of United States, 3-0

Officials

*President: Mostafa Hashemi Taba
*Secretary General: Bahram Afsharzadeh

External links

* [http://www.ir-iran-olympic.com/ NOCIRI website]