Iran at the Asian Games

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Iran at the Asian Games
Flag of Iran
IOC code: IRI
Asian Games appearances
1951 • 1954 • 1958 • 1962 • 1966 • 1970 • 1974 • 1978 • 1982 • 1986 • 1990 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006

Iran first participated at the Asian Games in 1951, and has sent athletes to compete in every Asian Games since then, except for 1958 , 1962 and 1978. ^[1]

The National Olympic Committee for Iran is the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and was founded in 1947.

1 Medal tables
2 References
3 External links

[edit] Medal tables

[edit] Medals by Asian Games

Total	118	128	133	379
Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
1951 New Delhi	8	6	2	16
1954 Manila	did not participate
1958 Tokyo	7	14	11	32
1962 Jakarta	did not participate
1966 Bangkok	6	8	17	31
1970 Bangkok	9	7	7	23
1974 Tehran	36	28	17	81
1978 Bangkok	did not participate
1982 New Delhi	4	4	4	12
1986 Seoul	6	6	10	22
1990 Beijing	4	6	8	18
1994 Hiroshima	9	9	8	26
1998 Bangkok	10	11	13	34
2002 Busan	8	14	14	36
2006 Doha	11	15	22	48

[edit] Medals by sport

Total	118	128	133	379
Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Athletics	7	10	10	27
Basketball	0	0	2	2
Boxing	5	9	22	36
Canoe-Kayak	0	1	0	1
Chess	0	0	1	1
Cycling	4	9	10	23
Diving	0	1	3	4
Equestrian	0	0	1	1
Fencing	3	4	6	13
Football	4	2	1	7
Handball	0	0	1	1
Judo	1	6	9	16
Karate	7	8	3	18
Shooting	0	0	1	1
Table Tennis	0	0	2	2
Taekwondo	5	7	11	23
Tennis	0	2	2	4
Volleyball	0	2	2	4
Water polo	1	0	0	1
Weightlifting	29	26	18	73
Wrestling	51	38	26	115
Wushu	1	3	2	6

[edit] Multiple Asian Games gold medalists

This is a list of multiple Asian Games gold medalists for Iran, listing people who have won two or more gold medals.

Athletes in bold are still active.

Athlete	Sport	Asian Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	1966–1974	4	1	0	5
Eskandar Filabi	Wrestling	1966–1974	4	0	0	4
Reza Soukhteh Saraei	Wrestling	1974–1990	3	1	0	4
Houshang Kargarnejad	Weightlifting	1970–1974	3	0	1	4
Alireza Heidari	Wrestling	1998–2006	3	0	0	3
Jalal Keshmiri	Athletics	1966–1974	2	3	1	6
Hassan Arianfar	Cycling	1970–1974	2	1	0	3
Akbar Shokrollahi	Weightlifting	1974	2	1	0	3
Ali Vali	Weightlifting	1974	2	1	0	3
Teymour Ghiassi	Athletics	1966–1974	2	0	1	3
Hossein Rezazadeh	Weightlifting	1998–2006	2	0	1	3
Ali Daei	Football	1998–2002	2	0	0	2
Ebrahim Javadi	Wrestling	1970–1974	2	0	0	2
Alireza Katiraei	Karate	1998–2002	2	0	0	2
Abdollah Movahed	Wrestling	1966–1970	2	0	0	2
Firouz Pojhan	Weightlifting	1951–1958	2	0	0	2
Mohammad Hassan Rahnavardi	Weightlifting	1951–1958	2	0	0	2
Behrouz Yari	Wrestling	1990–1994	2	0	0	2