Iran at the 1966 Asian Games

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Iran at the Asian Games
Flag of Iran
IOC code: IRI
1966 Asian Games in Bangkok
Competitors	118 in 12 sports
Medals Rank: 6	Gold 6	Silver 8	Bronze 17	Total 31
Asian Games appearances
1951 • 1954 • 1958 • 1962 • 1966 • 1970 • 1974 • 1978 • 1982 • 1986 • 1990 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006

Iran participated in the 1966 Asian Games held in the capital city of Bangkok, and ranked 6th with 6 gold medals on this occasion of the Asiad. ^[1]

1 Medal summary
- 1.1 Medal table
- 1.2 Medalists
2 References

[edit] Medal summary

[edit] Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	0	2	2	4
Boxing	0	0	4	4
Cycling	0	0	2	2
Football	0	1	0	1
Table tennis	0	0	1	1
Tennis	0	0	2	2
Volleyball	0	0	2	2
Weightlifting	3	0	4	7
Wrestling	3	5	0	8

[edit] Medalists

[edit] Athletics

Silver
- Ahmad Mirhosseini - Men's 3000 m steeplechase
- Jalal Keshmiri - Men's discus throw
Bronze
- Teymour Ghiassi - Men's high jump
- Jalal Keshmiri - Men's shot put

[edit] Boxing

Bronze
- Naser Aghaei - Men's 57 kg
- Eltefat Talebi - Men's 60 kg
- Aloush Abbasi - Men's 81 kg
- Hossein Fathianpour - Men's +81 kg

[edit] Cycling

[edit] Road

Bronze
- Team - Men's team time trial
  - Team roster
    - Hassan Roustaei
    - Mehdi Doukchi
    - Davoud Akhlaghi
    - Esmaeil Hosseini

[edit] Track

Bronze
- Esmaeil Hosseini - Men's individual pursuit

[edit] Football

Silver
- Team - Men
  - Team roster
    - Aziz Asli
    - Faramarz Zelli
    - Parviz Ghelichkhani
    - Hassan Habibi
    - Hamid Jasemian
    - Goudarz Habibi
    - Mohammad Ranjbar
    - Jalal Talebi
    - Mostafa Arab
    - Hossein Farzami
    - Ali Jabbari
    - Hamid Aminikhah
    - Akbar Eftekhari
    - Abdollah Saedi
    - Fariborz Esmaeili
    - Hamid Shirzadeghan
    - Homayoun Behzadi
    - Parviz Mirzahassan
  - Head coach: Gyorgy Szucs

[edit] Table tennis

Bronze
- Houshang Bozorgzadeh - Men's singles

[edit] Tennis

Bronze
- Taghi Akbari - Men's singles
- Team - Men's team
  - Team roster
    - Taghi Akbari
    - Ezzatollah Nemati
    - Nematollah Nemati
    - Issa Khodaei

[edit] Volleyball

[edit] Indoor

Bronze
- Team - Men
  - Team roster
    - Mahmoud Motlagh
    - Hassan Kord
    - Masoud Salehieh
    - Khalil Paknazar
    - Changiz Ansari
    - Hassan Kabiri
    - Mohammad Hemmatyar
    - Mojtaba Mortazavi
  - Head coach: Hossein Jabbarzadegan
- Team - Women
  - Team roster
    - Mari Tet
    - Rouhi Pandnavaz
    - Mehri Kharrazi
    - Ozra Malek
    - Mina Fathi
    - Nasrin Shokoufi
    - Leila Emami
    - Pari Fardi
    - Jaleh Seyed-Hadizadeh
  - Head coach: Fereydoon Sharifzadeh

[edit] Weightlifting

Gold
- Mohammad Nassiri - Men's 56 kg
- Parviz Jalayer - Men's 67.5 kg
- Manouchehr Boroumand - Men's +90 kg
Bronze
- Mohammadreza Nasehi - Men's 52 kg
- Mohammad Ammi Tehrani - Men's 75 kg
- Esmaeil Doroudian - Men's 90 kg
- Reza Esteki - Men's +90 kg

[edit] Wrestling

[edit] Freestyle

Gold
- Abdollah Movahed - Men's 70 kg
- Mansour Mehdizadeh - Men's 97 kg
- Eskandar Filabi - Men's +97 kg
Silver
- Ali Akbar Heidari - Men's 52 kg
- Mohammad Ali Farrokhian - Men's 57 kg
- Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour - Men's 63 kg
- Hossein Tahami - Men's 78 kg
- Mahmoud Moezzipour - Men's 87 kg

[edit] References

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