Iran at the 1994 Asian Games

Iran participated in the 1994 Asian Games held in the city of Hiroshima. This country is ranked 6th with 9 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.mu

Iran at the 1994 Asian Games
IOC code	IRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in Hiroshima
Competitors	162 in 15 sports
Flag bearer	Amir Reza Khadem
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 9 Silver 9 Bronze 8 Total 26
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1951 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018

Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Aquatics, Diving	X		X
Aquatics, Swimming	X		X
Aquatics, Water polo	13		13
Athletics	X		X
Basketball	12		12
Boxing	12		12
Cycling, Road	X		X
Cycling, Track	X		X
Equestrian	X		X
Football	20		20
Judo	X		X
Karate	X		X
Shooting		5	5
Taekwondo	4		4
Tennis	4		4
Volleyball	12		12
Weightlifting	X		X
Wrestling	20		20
Total	X	5	X

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Boxing	1	1	2	4
Equestrian			1	1
Judo		1	1	2
Karate	1	2	1	4
Taekwondo	1	2	1	4
Wrestling	6	3	2	11
Total	9	9	8	26

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Ayoub Pourtaghi	Boxing	Men's 81 kg
Gold	Maziar Farid-Khomami	Karate	Men's kumite 70 kg
Gold	Fariborz Askari	Taekwondo	Men's 70 kg
Gold	Nader Rahmati	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 48 kg
Gold	Ali Akbarnejad	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 68 kg
Gold	Behrouz Yari	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg
Gold	Amir Reza Khadem	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 82 kg
Gold	Rasoul Khadem	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 90 kg
Gold	Ebrahim Mehraban	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 130 kg
Silver	Mohammad Reza Samadi	Boxing	Men's +91 kg
Silver	Mahmoud Miran	Judo	Men's +95 kg
Silver	Arash Javanshir	Karate	Men's kumite 65 kg
Silver	Saeid Ashtian	Karate	Men's kumite 75 kg
Silver	Ebrahim Saadati	Taekwondo	Men's 76 kg
Silver	Farzad Zarakhsh	Taekwondo	Men's +83 kg
Silver	Ayoub Baninosrat	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 100 kg
Silver	Reza Simkhah	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg
Silver	Hassan Babak	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg
Bronze	Anoushiravan Nourian	Boxing	Men's 67 kg
Bronze	Bahman Azizpour	Boxing	Men's 91 kg
Bronze	Davoud Bahrami Ezzat Vojdani Kazem Vojdani Shahrokh Moghaddam	Equestrian	Team jumping
Bronze	Hassan Ahadpour	Judo	Men's 60 kg
Bronze	Vahid Khajeh-Hosseini	Karate	Men's kumite +80 kg
Bronze	Majid Amintorabi	Taekwondo	Men's 83 kg
Bronze	Oveis Mallah	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg
Bronze	Reza Safaei	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg

Results by event

Aquatics

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1994 Asian Games

Men^[1]

AthleteA	Event	Preliminary		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Gholamreza Kheibarinejad	3 m springboard	302.91	8 Q	434.46	9
Adel Mirabian	3 m springboard	249.75	11 Q	368.40	11
	10 m platform	272.43	8 Q	351.78	8

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1994 Asian Games

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1994 Asian Games

Men

Squad list	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Round 5	Rank
Iran	Singapore W 10–6	Japan L 11–15	China L 6–10	Kazakhstan L 6–10	South Korea W 9–8	4

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1994 Asian Games

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1994 Asian Games

Men^[2]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group B	Rank
Mohammad Kasaeipour Safa Ali Kamalian Mehran Hatami Ali Tofigh Mohsen Sadeghzadeh Mohammad Mehdi Izadpanah Hamid Kashani Omid Validipak Saeid Khani Hamid Kolasangiani Mehran Shahintab Faramarz Pouresfehani Coach:   Vitaly Zastakhov	South Korea L 78–102	3	7th–8th places   Chinese Taipei L 90–95	7th place match   Saudi Arabia L 87–95	8
	Philippines L 86–89
	Kazakhstan W 69–68
	United Arab Emirates W 88–81

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1994 Asian Games

Men^[3]

Athlete	Event	1st round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Arman Naghdi	48 kg	Ballo (INA) L 6–13	Did not advance			9
Ali Asghari	51 kg	Recaido (PHI) L RSC	Did not advance			9
Bijan Batmani	54 kg	Igusquisa (PHI) L RSC	Did not advance			9
Mohammad Reza Shaterloo	57 kg	Bahari (INA) L 7–12	Did not advance			9
Pejman Chalak	60 kg	Brin (PHI) L 8–13	Did not advance			9
Omid Rashid	63.5 kg	Nitami (JPN) L RSC	Did not advance			9
Anoushiravan Nourian	67 kg	Imaoka (JPN) W RSC	Arziev (KGZ) W 10–2	Chenglai (THA) L 17–26	Did not advance
Asadollah Johari	71 kg	Bye	Pan (CHN) L RSC	Did not advance		5
Siamak Varzideh	75 kg	Bye	Yarbekov (UZB) L 10–15	Did not advance		5
Ayoub Pourtaghi	81 kg		Bye	Singh (IND) W 16–9	Ko (KOR) W 9–7
Bahman Azizpour	91 kg	Bye	Filipovich (KGZ) W 21–12	Hawsawi (KSA) L 4–6	Did not advance
Mohammad Reza Samadi	+91 kg		Shtorm (KAZ) W 14–7	Khan (PAK) W RSC	Maskaev (UZB) L RSC

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1994 Asian Games

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Hossein Askari	Road race	4:52:53	26

Track

Men

Athlete	Event	Rank
Bahram Shafizadeh	1 km time trial	15
Majid Nasseri	4 km individual pursuit	5
Team	4 km team pursuit	6

Equestrian

Main article: Equestrian at the 1994 Asian Games

Football

Main article: Football at the 1994 Asian Games

Men^[4]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group A	Rank
Behzad Gholampour Javad Zarincheh Reza Shahroudi Nader Mohammadkhani Amir Ghalenoei Javad Manafi Sadegh Varmazyar Jamshid Shahmohammadi Ali Daei Farshad Pious Ali Asghar Modir-Rousta Behzad Dadashzadeh Hassan Shirmohammadi Afshin Peyrovani Jalal Basharzad Karim Bagheri Mohammad Salek-Jabbari Mojtaba Moharrami Ali Eftekhari Iman Alami Coach:   Stanko Poklepović	Bahrain D 0–0	3	did not advance			9
	Turkmenistan D 1–1
	China L 0–1
	Yemen W 4–0

Judo

Main article: Judo at the 1994 Asian Games

Karate

Main article: Karate at the 1994 Asian Games

Men's kata

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Alaeddin Nekoufar	Individual	46.6	4

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1994 Asian Games

Women^[5]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Lida Fariman	10 m air rifle	379	17	did not advance
Elham Hashemi	10 m air rifle	368	26	did not advance
	50 m rifle prone			572		22
Leila Taghipour	10 m air rifle	381	16	did not advance
Zahra Mahroughi	50 m rifle prone			582		9
Leila Vaseghi	50 m rifle prone			571		26
Lida Fariman Elham Hashemi Leila Taghipour	10 m air rifle team			1128		7
Elham Hashemi Zahra Mahroughi Leila Vaseghi	50 m rifle prone team			1725		6

Taekwondo

Main article: Taekwondo at the 1994 Asian Games

Men

Athlete	Event	Final	Rank
Fariborz Askari	Lightweight –70 kg	Yamashita (JPN) W 5–2
Ebrahim Saadati	Welterweight –76 kg	Jung (KOR) L
Majid Amintorabi	Middleweight –83 kg	Did not advance
Farzad Zarakhsh	Heavyweight +83 kg	Kim (KOR) L

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 1994 Asian Games

Men

Athlete	Event	1st round	2nd round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Ramin Raziani	Singles	Ramachandran (MAS) L 1–2 7–6, 6–7, 3–6	Did not advance				17
Jahanbakhsh Souri	Singles	Natekar (IND) L 0–2 3–6, 3–6	Did not advance				17
Ramin Raziani Mostafa Saleh Jahanbakhsh Souri	Team		Chinese Taipei L 0–3 0–2, 0–2, 0–2	Did not advance			9

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 1994 Asian Games

Men

Team	Rank
Iran	5

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1994 Asian Games

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1994 Asian Games

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	1st round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final	Rank
Nader Rahmati	48 kg	Moon (KOR) W 5–4	Falsario (PHI) W 10–0	Kumar (IND) W		Züünbayan (MGL) W 8–0
Gholamreza Mohammadi	52 kg	Sasayama (JPN) W 3–0	Bye	Mamyrov (KAZ) L	Repechage   Kim (KOR) W	3rd place match   Donbaev (KGZ) L	4
Oveis Mallah	57 kg	Kim (KOR) W 1–1	Kui (CHN) W 5–3	Tsogtbayar (MGL) L	Repechage   Zupparov (UZB) W	3rd place match   Kim (KOR) W
Reza Safaei	62 kg					3rd place match   Madjinov (KGZ) W
Ali Akbarnejad	68 kg		Jam (AFG) W 11–0	Omuraliev (KGZ) W		Katsu (JPN) W 3–0
Behrouz Yari	74 kg			Park (KOR) W 3–0		Ota (JPN) W 2–0
Amir Reza Khadem	82 kg		Yokoyama (JPN) W 3–0	Yang (KOR) W		Zhabrailov (KAZ) W 2–2
Rasoul Khadem	90 kg					Ito (JPN) W 5–0
Ayoub Baninosrat	100 kg		Asanuma (JPN) W 9–0	Habibullah (AFG) W		Kim (KOR) L 1–2
Ebrahim Mehraban	130 kg			Obata (JPN) W 3–0		Klimov (KAZ) W 5–3

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	1st round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage	Final	Rank
Reza Simkhah	48 kg	Hu (CHN) W	Bye	Yusuf (INA) W		Sim (KOR) L 0–7
Abdolkarim Kakahaji	52 kg				Repechage   Han (CHN) L	5th place match   Nakamori (JPN) L 1–5	6
Shahriar Salehi	57 kg		Sheng (CHN) L 1–4	Repechage   Guhiting (PHI) W	Repechage   Al-Sobai (SYR) W	3rd place match   Lee (KOR) L	4
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Mehdi Sadeghpour	68 kg		Kim (KOR) L	Repechage   Shah (AFG) W	Repechage   Al-Osta (SYR) W	3rd place match   Mori (JPN) L 1–3	4
Ahad Javansalehi	74 kg		Bye	Han (KOR) L		3rd place match   Katayama (JPN) L 5–6	4
Arash Motamedi	82 kg		Turlykhanov (KAZ) L 0–5	Bye	Repechage   Mukai (JPN) W 6–3	3rd place match   Kim (KOR) L 3–5	4
Hassan Babak	90 kg		Zayar (SYR) W	Bye		Eom (KOR) L 1–4
Jaber Abbaszadeh	100 kg		Bye	Song (KOR) L 2–6	Repechage   Keniaev (UZB) W	3rd place match   Nonomura (JPN) L 2–2	4
Abdollah Azizi	130 kg		Suzuki (JPN) L 0–3	Repechage   Kashour (SYR) W		3rd place match   Hu (CHN) L	4

References

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