Iran at the 1974 Asian Games

Iran participated in the 1974 Asian Games as a host, and was ranked 2nd with 36 gold medals at this Asiad.^[1]

Iran at the 1974 Asian Games
IOC code	IRN
NOC	National Olympic Committee of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in Tehran
Competitors	314 in 16 sports
Flag bearer	Moslem Eskandar-Filabi
Medals Ranked 2nd	Gold 36 Silver 28 Bronze 17 Total 81
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1951 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026

Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Aquatics, Diving	X	X	X
Aquatics, Swimming	X	X	X
Aquatics, Water polo	11		11
Athletics	X	X	X
Badminton	4	4	8
Basketball	12	12	24
Boxing	11		11
Cycling, Road	X		X
Cycling, Track	X		X
Fencing	12	5	17
Field hockey	18		18
Football	20		20
Gymnastics	6	6	12
Shooting	X		X
Table tennis	5	4	9
Tennis	4	2	6
Volleyball	12	12	24
Weightlifting	9		9
Wrestling	19		19
Total	X	X	X

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Water polo	1	0	0	1
Athletics	3	2	3	8
Boxing	3	2	5	10
Cycling, Road	2	1	1	4
Cycling, Track	0	1	1	2
Fencing	3	4	3	10
Football	1	0	0	1
Tennis	0	2	0	2
Weightlifting	10	11	3	24
Wrestling	13	5	1	19
Total	36	28	17	81

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Firouz Abdolmohammadian Jahangir Tavakkoli Heidar Shonjani Ahmad Peidayesh Dariush Movahedi Bahram Tavakkoli Reza Kamrani Morteza Shariat Hossein Nasim Abdolreza Majdpour Ahmad Yaghouti	Aquatics, Water polo	Men
Gold	Teymour Ghiasi	Athletics	Men's high jump
Gold	Jalal Keshmiri	Athletics	Men's shot put
Gold	Jalal Keshmiri	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Gold	Sharif Delaram	Boxing	Men's 71 kg
Gold	Masis Hambarsumian	Boxing	Men's 81 kg
Gold	Abdolreza Andaveh	Boxing	Men's +81 kg
Gold	Hassan Arianfard	Cycling, Road	Men's road race
Gold	Hassan Arianfard Khosro Haghgosha Gholam Hossein Kouhi Esmaeil Zeinali	Cycling, Road	Men's team time trial
Gold	Pirouz Adamiat Parviz Almasi Sarkis Assadourian Ali Asghar Pashapour Esfandiar Zarnegar	Fencing	Men's team épée
Gold	Abdolhamid Fathi Manouchehr Shafaei Ahmad Eskandarpour Ahmad Akbari Esmaeil Pashapour	Fencing	Men's team sabre
Gold	Mahvash Shafaei Giti Mohebban Jila Almasi Maryam Shariatzadeh Maryam Achak	Fencing	Women's team foil
Gold	Nasser Hejazi Bahram Mavaddat Mansour Rashidi Jafar Kashani Ebrahim Ashtiani Mohsen Houshangi Ezzat Janmaleki Akbar Kargarjam Masih Masihnia Mahmoud Etemadi Parviz Ghelichkhani Ali Parvin Ali Jabbari Mohammad Sadeghi Mohammad Dastjerdi Hassan Roshan Ghafour Jahani Mohammad Reza Adelkhani Gholam Hossein Mazloumi Karo Haghverdian	Football	Men
Gold	Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	Men's 52 kg
Gold	Ali Vali	Weightlifting	Men's 90 kg
Gold	Houshang Kargarnejad	Weightlifting	Men's 110 kg
Gold	Akbar Shokrollahi	Weightlifting	Men's +110 kg
Gold	Houshang Kargarnejad	Weightlifting	Men's snatch 110 kg
Gold	Akbar Shokrollahi	Weightlifting	Men's snatch +110 kg
Gold	Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk 52 kg
Gold	Ali Vali	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk 90 kg
Gold	Houshang Kargarnejad	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk 110 kg
Gold	Hafez Hassani	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk +110 kg
Gold	Ebrahim Javadi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg
Gold	Mohsen Farahvashi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg
Gold	Mansour Barzegar	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg
Gold	Hamid Alidousti	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 82 kg
Gold	Moslem Eskandar-Filabi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle +100 kg
Gold	Rahim Aliabadi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 48 kg
Gold	Hossein Touranian	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 57 kg
Gold	Akbar Yadollahi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 62 kg
Gold	Mohammad Dalirian	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 68 kg
Gold	Hashem Ghanbari	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg
Gold	Jalal Karimi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 90 kg
Gold	Bahram Moshtaghi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 100 kg
Gold	Moslem Eskandar-Filabi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman +100 kg
Silver	Reza Entezari	Athletics	Men's 400 m
Silver	Reza Entezari	Athletics	Men's 800 m
Silver	Abdolreza Ansari	Boxing	Men's 48 kg
Silver	Jabbar Feli	Boxing	Men's 57 kg
Silver	Gholam Hossein Kouhi	Cycling, Road	Men's road race
Silver	Khosro Haghgosha Manouchehr Daneshmand Ali Pourmehr Hossein Baharloo	Cycling, Track	Men's team pursuit
Silver	Pirouz Adamiat	Fencing	Men's individual épée
Silver	Ali Asghar Pashapour	Fencing	Men's individual foil
Silver	Abdolhamid Fathi	Fencing	Men's individual sabre
Silver	Mahvash Shafaei	Fencing	Women's individual foil
Silver	Taghi Akbari	Tennis	Men's singles
Silver	Kambiz Derafshijavan Ali Madani	Tennis	Men's doubles
Silver	Nasrollah Dehnavi	Weightlifting	Men's 67.5 kg
Silver	Ebrahim Pourdejam	Weightlifting	Men's 82.5 kg
Silver	Hafez Hassani	Weightlifting	Men's +110 kg
Silver	Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	Men's snatch 52 kg
Silver	Nasrollah Dehnavi	Weightlifting	Men's snatch 67.5 kg
Silver	Ebrahim Pourdejam	Weightlifting	Men's snatch 82.5 kg
Silver	Ali Vali	Weightlifting	Men's snatch 90 kg
Silver	Nasrollah Dehnavi	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk 67.5 kg
Silver	Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk 75 kg
Silver	Ebrahim Pourdejam	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk 82.5 kg
Silver	Akbar Shokrollahi	Weightlifting	Men's clean & jerk +110 kg
Silver	Sobhan Rouhi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 48 kg
Silver	Mohammad Khorrami	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 68 kg
Silver	Reza Khorrami	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 90 kg
Silver	Reza Soukhtehsaraei	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 100 kg
Silver	Khosro Nezafatdoust	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg
Bronze	Reza Entezari Fakhroddin Alamshah Ghasem Koveitipour Houshang Arshadi	Athletics	Men's 4 × 400 m relay
Bronze	Faramarz Asef	Athletics	Men's triple jump
Bronze	Salman Hesam	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Bronze	Hamlet Minasian	Boxing	Men's 54 kg
Bronze	Hossein Madardoust	Boxing	Men's 60 kg
Bronze	Farshid Enteghami	Boxing	Men's 63.5 kg
Bronze	Ahmad Poureftekhari	Boxing	Men's 67 kg
Bronze	Vartex Parsanian	Boxing	Men's 75 kg
Bronze	Behrouz Rahbar	Cycling, Road	Men's road race
Bronze	Khosro Haghgosha	Cycling, Track	Men's individual pursuit
Bronze	Ahmad Akbari Parviz Almasi Sarkis Assadourian Ali Asghar Pashapour Kioumars Tolouei	Fencing	Men's team foil
Bronze	Manouchehr Shafaei	Fencing	Men's individual sabre
Bronze	Giti Mohebban	Fencing	Women's individual foil
Bronze	Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi	Weightlifting	Men's 75 kg
Bronze	Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi	Weightlifting	Men's snatch 75 kg
Bronze	Hafez Hassani	Weightlifting	Men's snatch +110 kg
Bronze	Mohammad Reza Navaei	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg

Results by event

Aquatics

Diving

Main article: Diving at the 1974 Asian Games

Swimming

Main article: Swimming at the 1974 Asian Games

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1974 Asian Games

Men^[2]

Squad list	Round 1 / 4	Round 2 / 5	Round 3 / 6	Rank
Firouz Abdolmohammadian Jahangir Tavakkoli Heidar Shonjani Ahmad Peidayesh Dariush Movahedi Bahram Tavakkoli Reza Kamrani Morteza Shariat Hossein Nasim Abdolreza Majdpour Ahmad Yaghouti Coach: Angelescu	India W 18–6	Japan D 6–6	North Korea W 9–5
	China D 5–5	Kuwait W 32–1	Singapore W 9–1

Athletics

Main article: Athletics at the 1974 Asian Games

Badminton

Main article: Badminton at the 1974 Asian Games

Men

Athlete	Event	1st round	2nd round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Sirous Aflatoun	Singles	Bye	Hou (CHN) L 0–2 4–15, 3–15	Did not advance			9
Dariush Foroughi	Singles	Yang (HKG) L 0–2 2–15, 7–15	Did not advance				17
Sirous Aflatoun Dariush Foroughi	Doubles	Bye	Khanna (IND)  Ghosh (IND) W Walkover	Tjun (INA)  Wahjudi (INA) L 0–2 0–15, 2–15	Did not advance		5
Mohsen Sheida Sadra Shoushtari	Doubles	Hauw (HKG)  Wong (HKG) W Walkover	Tang (CHN)  Chen (CHN) L 0–2 5–15, 6–15	Did not advance			9
Dariush Foroughi Sirous Aflatoun Mohsen Sheida Sadra Shoushtari	Team		Bye	Indonesia L 0–5 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2	5th–8th places  Hong Kong L 0–3 0–2, 0–2, 0–2	7th place match  Philippines L 0–3 0–2, 0–2, 0–2	8

Women

Athlete	Event	1st round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mina Pourghobadi	Singles	Oh (KOR) L 0–2 0–11, 0–11	Did not advance			9
Rafat Yazdanparast	Singles	Bak (PRK) L 0–2 0–11, 0–11	Did not advance			9
Houri Farshidian Mina Pourghobadi	Doubles	Liang (CHN)  Cheng (CHN) L 0–2 1–15, 2–15	Did not advance			9
Behnaz Nourazar Rafat Yazdanparast	Doubles	Ng (MAS)  Ang (MAS) L 0–2 1–15, 1–15	Did not advance			9
Rafat Yazdanparast Mina Pourghobadi Behnaz Nourazar Houri Farshidian	Team		Indonesia L 0–5 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2	Did not advance		5

Mixed

Athlete	Event	1st round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mohsen Sheida Mina Pourghobadi	Doubles	Sakuntaniyom (THA)  Kingmanee (THA) L 0–2 1–15, 1–15	Did not advance			9
Sadra Shoushtari Houri Farshidian	Doubles	Soong (MAS)  Ng (MAS) L 0–2 1–15, 2–15	Did not advance			9

Basketball

Main article: Basketball at the 1974 Asian Games

Men^[3]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Second round		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group D	Rank	Group A	Rank
Nader Kashani Reza Esmaeili Jafar Gharehkhani Nosratollah Iliavi Rasoul Javadi Abbas Heidari Reza Mashhoun Mohsen Khalkhali Mozaffar Banihashemi Amir Saboktakin Salim Shibeh Nasser Biglari Coach: George Chiraleu	Bahrain W 128–62	1 Q	Philippines L 91–93	4	5th–8th places  Japan W 89–86	5th place match  North Korea L 74–75	6
	Pakistan W 97–86		North Korea L 65–86
			China L 78–94

Women^[4]

Squad list	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Rank
Farzaneh Nourbakhsh Zohreh Shahmaei Mahin Kourehchian Maro Avanesian Ailin Malekian Janik Shahbazian Zahra Taghipour Avlin Avakian Fattaneh Hadavi Soheila Rouhani Hilda Malekian Ziba Aflatoun	Japan L 24–89	North Korea L 36–95	China L 60–89	South Korea L 43–74	5

Boxing

Main article: Boxing at the 1974 Asian Games

Men^[5]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Abdolreza Ansari	48 kg	Bye	de Kauwe (SRI) W Points	Kim (PRK) W Points	Park (KOR) L Points
Armid Bogosian	51 kg	Netmanee (THA) L RSC	Did not advance			9
Hamlet Minasian	54 kg	Bye	Din (PAK) W Disqualification	Ishigaki (JPN) L Points	Did not advance
Jabbar Feli	57 kg	Bye	Kim (PRK) W Points	Seubsanon (THA) W Walkover	Yu (KOR) L Knockout
Hossein Madardoust	60 kg		Pankaew (THA) W Points	Gombo (MGL) L Points	Did not advance
Farshid Enteghami	63.5 kg	Balouch (PAK) W Points	Sebti (IRQ) W Points	Park (KOR) L Points	Did not advance
Ahmad Poureftekhari	67 kg	Bye	Chindarasi (THA) W Points	Seki (JPN) L Points	Did not advance
Sharif Delaram	71 kg	Bye	Singh (IND) W Points	Aquilino (PHI) W Points	Jang (PRK) W Points
Vartex Parsanian	75 kg		Bye	Kim (KOR) L Points	Did not advance
Masis Hambarsumian	81 kg			Hussain (PAK) W Points	Singh (IND) W Points
Abdolreza Andaveh	+81 kg			Shah (PAK) W Points	Bura (IND) W Disqualification

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1974 Asian Games

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Hassan Arianfard	Road race	5:16:12
Gholam Hossein Kouhi	Road race	5:16:13
Behrouz Rahbar	Road race	5:16:13
Hassan Arianfard Khosro Haghgosha Gholam Hossein Kouhi Esmaeil Zeinali	Team time trial	2:17:04.47

Track

Fencing

Main article: Fencing at the 1974 Asian Games

Field hockey

Main article: Field hockey at the 1974 Asian Games

Football

Main article: Football at the 1974 Asian Games

Men^[6]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Second round		Final	Rank
	Group D	Rank	Group A	Rank
Nasser Hejazi Bahram Mavaddat Mansour Rashidi Jafar Kashani Ebrahim Ashtiani Mohsen Houshangi Ezzat Janmaleki Akbar Kargarjam Masih Masihnia Mahmoud Etemadi Parviz Ghelichkhani Ali Parvin Ali Jabbari Mohammad Sadeghi Mohammad Dastjerdi Hassan Roshan Ghafour Jahani Mohammad Reza Adelkhani Gholam Hossein Mazloumi Karo Haghverdian Coach: Frank O'Farrell	Pakistan W 7–0	1 Q	Malaysia W 1–0	1 Q	Israel W 1–0
	Burma W 2–1		South Korea W 2–0
	Bahrain W 6–0		Iraq W 1–0

Gymnastics

Main article: Gymnastics at the 1974 Asian Games

Shooting

Main article: Shooting at the 1974 Asian Games

Table tennis

Main article: Table tennis at the 1974 Asian Games

Tennis

Main article: Tennis at the 1974 Asian Games

Volleyball

Main article: Volleyball at the 1974 Asian Games

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1974 Asian Games

Men^[7]

Athlete	Event	Snatch		Clean & Jerk		Total
		Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Mohammad Nassiri	52 kg	100.0		132.5		232.5
Nasrollah Dehnavi	67.5 kg	127.5		162.5		290.0
Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi	75 kg	120.0		160.0		280.0
Ebrahim Pourdejam	82.5 kg	135.0		170.0		305.0
Ali Vali	90 kg	127.5		185.0		312.5
Shahkaram Karamzadeh	110 kg	122.5	4	165.0	5	297.5	5
Houshang Kargarnejad	110 kg	140.0		185.0		325.0
Hafez Hassani	+110 kg	130.0		177.5		307.5
Akbar Shokrollahi	+110 kg	140.0		177.5		317.5

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1974 Asian Games

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Final round	Rank
Sobhan Rouhi	48 kg	Kudo (JPN) L Fall	Rafique (PAK) W Fall	Bye	Enkhtaivan (MGL) W	Pak (PRK) W Fall
Ebrahim Javadi	52 kg	Tangente (PHI) W Fall	Ri (PRK) W	Ganbat (MGL) W	Singh (IND) W	Takada (JPN) D 2–2
Mohsen Farahvashi	57 kg	Mahdi (IRQ) W Disqualification	Ditta (PAK) W Fall	Bye	Sasaki (JPN) W 14–3	Ha (PRK) W 10–1
Mohammad Reza Navaei	62 kg	Djan (AFG) W Fall	Saito (JPN) W Fall	Majeed (PAK) D	Singh (IND) W Fall	Oidov (MGL) L Fall
						Yang (KOR) L
Mohammad Khorrami	68 kg	Chang (KOR) W 18–6	Kyong (PRK) W	Djan (AFG) W Fall	Singh (IND) W	Sugawara (JPN) L 1–9
Mansour Barzegar	74 kg	Mahdi (IRQ) W Fall	Kim (KOR) W Fall	Bye	Sereeter (MGL) W	Degawa (JPN) W 5–1
Hamid Alidousti	82 kg	Tserendash (MGL) W 9–1	Kang (KOR) W	Motegi (JPN) W 7–4	Singh (IND) W	Bye
Reza Khorrami	90 kg	Singh (IND) W 6–4	Hussein (IRQ) W Fall	Tserentogtokh (MGL) D	Kamada (JPN) D 4–4
Reza Soukhtehsaraei	100 kg	Cheema (IND) W 9–1	Bye	Saito (JPN) W Fall	Bayanmönkh (MGL) D 4–4
Moslem Eskandar-Filabi	+100 kg	Singh (IND) W Fall	Bye	Isogai (JPN) D	Khan (PAK) W Walkover

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Final round	Rank
Rahim Aliabadi	48 kg	Ishida (JPN) W Fall	Mansour (IRQ) W Fall	Bye	Chander (IND) W Fall	Bang (KOR) W 17–3
Hossein Naghibzadeh	52 kg	Enkhtaivan (MGL) W 18–6	Hirayama (JPN) L 1–5	Baek (KOR) L 3–18	did not advance		4
Hossein Touranian	57 kg	Kumar (IND) W Fall	Jasim (IRQ) W Fall	Sakurama (JPN) W Fall	An (KOR) W 13–4
Akbar Yadollahi	62 kg	Miyahara (JPN) W 7–4	Majeed (PAK) W	Choi (KOR) W Fall	Bye
Mohammad Dalirian	68 kg	Yadav (IND) W Fall	Kobayashi (JPN) W	Bae (KOR) W 10–9	Djan (AFG) W Fall	Natsagdorj (MGL) W Disqualification
Hashem Ghanbari	74 kg	Singh (IND) W Fall	Yaghoub (PAK) W Fall	Bye	Kang (KOR) D 9–9	Nagatomo (JPN) W 8–4
Khosro Nezafatdoust	82 kg	Sato (JPN) L Disqualification	Singh (IND) W Fall	Tserendash (MGL) W Fall	Bye
Jalal Karimi	90 kg	Bye	Fujita (JPN) D 2–2	Singh (IND) W Fall	Mönkhbat (MGL) W Fall
Bahram Moshtaghi	100 kg	Saito (JPN) W 14–7	Abdul-Ghani (IRQ) W Fall	Cheema (IND) W Fall	Bayanmönkh (MGL) W 5–3
Moslem Eskandar-Filabi	+100 kg	Shihab (IRQ) W Disqualification	Singh (IND) W Fall	Adiyaatömör (MGL) W	Isogai (JPN) L DSQ2

References

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External links

• (in Persian) Iran Olympic Committee - Asian Games Medalists
• (in Persian) Iran National Sports Organization - Asian Games Medalists