Iran at the 2002 Asian Games explained

Noc:	IRI
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Year:	2002
Games:	Asian Games
Location:	Busan
Competitors:	126
Sports:	15
Flagbearer:	Ali Daei
Gold:	8
Silver:	14
Bronze:	14
Rank:	10
Appearances:	auto
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Iran participated in the 2002 Asian Games held in the city of Busan. This country is ranked 10th with 8 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.

Competitors

width=180	Sport	width=55	Men	width=55	Women	width=55	Total
Aquatics, Water polo	13		13
Archery	1		1
Athletics	3	1	4
Canoeing, Sprint	2	4	6
Cycling, Mountain bike	2		2
Cycling, Road	2		2
Cycling, Track	7		7
Equestrian	3	1	4
Football	20		20
Judo	7		7
Karate	5		5
Shooting	3	4	7
Taekwondo	6	3	9
Volleyball	12		12
Weightlifting	8		8
Wrestling	14		14
Wushu	7		7
Total	113	13	126

Medal summary

Medal table

width=180	Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	width=55	Total
		1		1
		1		1
	1			1
	1	1	3	5
	2	3		5
			1	1
	1	1	2	4
		1		1
	1	3	3	7
	1	2	5	8
	1	1		2
Total	8	14	14	36

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men
			Men's 60 kg
			Men's kumite 70 kg
			Men's kumite +75 kg
			Men's 72 kg
			Men's +105 kg
			Men's freestyle 96 kg
			Men's sanda 70 kg
			Men's discus throw
			Men's team pursuit
			Men's +100 kg
			Men's kumite 60 kg
			Men's kumite 65 kg
			Men's kumite 75 kg
			Men's 58 kg
			Men
			Men's 77 kg
			Men's 85 kg
			Men's 94 kg
			Men's freestyle 66 kg
			Men's freestyle 120 kg
			Men's sanda 65 kg
			Men's 73 kg
			Men's 100 kg
			Men's open
			Women's 10 m running target team
			Men's 78 kg
			Women's 55 kg
			Men's 69 kg
			Men's 77 kg
			Men's 105 kg
			Men's freestyle 55 kg
			Men's freestyle 74 kg
			Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg
			Men's Greco-Roman 96 kg
			Men's Greco-Roman 120 kg

Results by event

Aquatics

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[1]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group B	Rank
Alireza Shahidipour Bahman Mouchehkiani Alireza Amirian Ahmad Nesaei Majid Gholami Vahid Rezaei Ali Saleh Saeid Mirmehdi Kambiz Rakhshanimehr Ali Akbar Shirjian Hamed Dalil-Heirati Mohsen Rezvani Meisam Jafari Coach: Ante Nakić	W 13–3	2	L 9–12	3rd place match L 6–10	4
	L 4–12

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men's recurve^[2]

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[3]

Athlete	Event	1st round			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mehdi Jelodarzadeh	800 m	2	1:49.13	4	Did not advance		10
1500 m		Did not finish		—
Sajjad Moradi	1500 m		3:50.25	11	11

Women^[4]

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[5]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Babak Samari	K1 1000 m	3:52.752	5
Mohsen Milad Babak Samari	K2 500 m	1:37.352	4

Women

Athlete	Event	Heat			Semifinal		Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Sonia Nourizad	K1 500 m	1	2:11.570	5	2:11.044	2	2:11.691	8	8
Hengameh Ahadpour Farahnaz Amirshaghaghi	K2 500 m		2:02.822	6	6
Hengameh Ahadpour Raheleh Ahadpour Farahnaz Amirshaghaghi Sonia Nourizad	K4 500 m		1:51.790	7	7

Cycling

See main article: Cycling at the 2002 Asian Games.

Mountain bike

Men^[6]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ahad Kazemi	Cross-country	Did not start
Ghader Mizbani	Cross-country	Did not start

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Ahad Kazemi	Road race	4:26:54	17
Ghader Mizbani	Road race	4:24:19	7
Individual time trial	1:05:38.39	5

Track

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Quarterfinal		Final	Rank
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hassan Ali Varposhti	1 km time trial		1.08.917	5
Hossein Askari	Individual pursuit	4.47.041	3	W 4.47.053–	3	3rd place match L 4.48.264–4.44.004	4
Hossein Askari Alireza Haghi Abbas Saeidi Tanha Amir Zargari Mehdi Sohrabi (heats)	Team pursuit	4.25.727	2	W 4.24.462–	2	L 4.23.108–4.20.753

Athlete	Event	Score	Rank
Abbas Saeidi Tanha	Points race	26	5
Moezeddin Seyed-Rezaei	Points race	8	9
Amir Zargari Alireza Haghi	Madison	9	5

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2002 Asian Games.

Jumping^[7]

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualifier				Final				Rank
			1st	2nd	Total	Rank	1st	2nd	Total	Rank
Arsia Ardalan	Canterbuliry	Individual	0	16	16	22	Did not advance	24
Tara Ardalan	Air Ride	Individual	0	4	4	6	16	18	34	13	13
Ali Nilforoushan	Herr Schroder	Individual	4	4	8	14	4	1	5	5	5
Ramin Shakki	Revanche	Individual	4	7	11	18	0	8	8	6	6
Tara Ardalan Ali Nilforoushan Ramin Shakki Arsia Ardalan	Air Ride Herr Schroder Revanche Canterbuliry	Team		4	15	19	5	5

Football

See main article: Football at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[8]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group E	Rank
Ebrahim Mirzapour Mehdi Amirabadi Yahya Golmohammadi Saeid Lotfi Javad Nekounam Iman Mobali Javad Kazemian Ali Daei Alireza Vahedi Nikbakht Mehdi Rahmati Hossein Kaebi Moharram Navidkia Abolfazl Hajizadeh Mohsen Bayatinia Ali Badavi Siavash Akbarpour Jalal Kameli Mofrad Mohammad Nosrati Hamid Azizzadeh Ershad Yousefi Coach: Branko Ivanković	W 10–0	1	W 1–0	W 0–0, 5–3 Pen	W 2–1
	W 2–0
	D 1–1

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[9]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Repechage final	Final	Rank
Masoud Haji Akhondzadeh	60 kg	Bye	W 1001–0000	W 1001–0000	W 0200–0102		W 0200–0010
Arash Miresmaeili	66 kg	Bye	W 0021–0010	L 0001–1011	Repechage W 0010–0001	Repechage L 1021–0010	Did not advance	7
Hamed Malekmohammadi	73 kg		W 1000–0000	L 0000–0001	Repechage W 1101–0000	Repechage W 0101–0001	3rd place match W 0011–0010
Kazem Sarikhani	81 kg		W 1001–0010	W 1010–0000	L 0001–0010		3rd place match L 0000–1000	5
Masoud Khosravinejad	90 kg		W 1000–0000	W 0102–0030	L 0001–0120		3rd place match L 0001–0020	5
Abbas Fallah	100 kg		Bye	L 0001–1100	Repechage W 1001–0001	Bye	3rd place match W 1141–0000
Mahmoud Miran	+100 kg	bgcolor=#DCDCDC colspan=2		W 1010–0010	W 1000–0000		L 0100–1000
	Open		Bye	W 1001–0010	L 0011–1000		3rd place match W 1010–0100

Karate

See main article: Karate at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men's kumite^[10]

Athlete	Event	1st preliminary round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Hossein Rouhani	60 kg	W 2–0	W 2–2	W 10–2	L 2–3
Mehdi Amouzadeh	65 kg	W 10–2	W 7–5	W 2–0	L 1–3
Alireza Katiraei	70 kg	W 3–0	W 4–0	W 4–2	W 2–0
Jasem Vishkaei	75 kg	Bye	W 6–4	W 2–0	L 0–0
Mehran Behnamfar	+75 kg	W 8–0	W 5–0	W 0–0	W 0–0

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[11]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Reza Ahmadi	10 m air rifle	569	44	Did not advance
Ehsan Homayouni	10 m air rifle	587	16	Did not advance
Hossein Jahanmiri	10 m air rifle	579	30	Did not advance
Reza Ahmadi Ehsan Homayouni Hossein Jahanmiri	10 m air rifle team		1735		11

Women

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Total	Rank
Lida Fariman	10 m air rifle	387	22	Did not advance
	50 m rifle prone		582		21
	10 m running target		159		8
Elham Hashemi	10 m air rifle	378	32	Did not advance
	50 m rifle prone		575		33
	10 m running target		96		10
Yalda Khodabandeh	10 m air rifle	365	39	Did not advance
Raheleh Kheirollahzadeh	50 m rifle prone		583		18
	10 m running target		103		9
Lida Fariman Elham Hashemi Yalda Khodabandeh	10 m air rifle team		1130		10
Lida Fariman Elham Hashemi Raheleh Kheirollahzadeh	50 m rifle prone team		1740		6
	10 m running target team		358

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[12]

Athlete	Event	1/16 final	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Behzad Khodadad	58 kg	W	W	W	W 4–1	L 2–11
Omid Gholamzadeh	62 kg	Bye	W 7–3	L 5–7	Did not advance	5
Hadi Saei	72 kg	Bye	W Disqualification	W 13–0	W 11–3	W 4–3
Majid Aflaki	78 kg		Bye	W 11–7	L 1–1	Did not advance
Yousef Karami	84 kg		Bye	L 6–7	Did not advance	5
Hadi Afshar	+84 kg		W 6–4	L 6–10	Did not advance	5

Women^[13]

Athlete	Event	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Tayyebeh Fadaeinejad	51 kg	W	L 2–6	Did not advance	5
Parvaneh Tehrani	55 kg	W 1–1	W 4–0	L 2–7	Did not advance
Marzieh Asadi	59 kg	Bye	L 2–4	Did not advance	5

Volleyball

Indoor

See main article: Volleyball at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[14]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Pool A	Rank
Amir Hossein Monazzami Amir Hosseini Abbas Ghasemian Peyman Akbari Mohammad Mansouri Ahsanollah Shirkavand Mahmoud Afshardoust Behnam Mahmoudi Mohammad Torkashvand Afshin Oliaei Alireza Behboudi Rahman Mohammadirad Coach: Park Ki-won	W 3–0 25–15, 25–15, 25–15	2	W 3–2 25–16, 19–25, 25–21, 22–25, 15–11	L 0–3 18–25, 19–25, 23–25
	W 3–2 25–20, 25–23, 37–39, 26–28, 15–12
	W 3–0 25–22, 25–15, 25–22
	L 0–3 17–25, 20–25, 12–25

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men^[15]

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & jerk	Total	Rank
Mehdi Panzvan	69 kg	150.0	175.0	325.0
Mohammad Hossein Barkhah	77 kg	160.0	202.5	362.5
Mohammad Ali Falahatinejad	77 kg	150.0	200.0	350.0
Shahin Nassirinia	85 kg	No mark	—	—	—
Hadi Panzvan	85 kg	167.5	200.0	367.5
Kourosh Bagheri	94 kg	175.0	210.0	385.0
Hossein Tavakkoli	105 kg	180.0	220.0	400.0
Hossein Rezazadeh	+105 kg	200.0	240.0	440.0

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men's freestyle^[16]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Pools	Rank
Mohammad Rezaei	55 kg	W 5–2	Pool 1 1		L 0–11	3rd place match W 10–0
		W 4–2
Masoud Mostafa-Jokar	60 kg	W Fall	Pool 3 2		Did not advance		6
		L Walkover
		W Walkover
Alireza Dabir	66 kg	W 10–0	Pool 4 1	Bye	W 3–2	L 1–3
		W 11–0
Mehdi Hajizadeh	74 kg	W 8–2	Pool 4 1		L 7–9	3rd place match W 9–0
		W 9–1
		W 6–0
Pejman Dorostkar	84 kg	L 2–3	Pool 3 2		Did not advance		5
		W 4–1
Alireza Heidari	96 kg	W Fall	Pool 2 1		W 3–1	W 5–0
		W 4–0
		W 8–0
Abbas Jadidi	120 kg	W 11–0	Pool 3 1		W Fall	L 0–10
		W 5–1
		W 10–0

Men's Greco-Roman^[17]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Repechage / Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Pools	Rank
Hamid Banitamim	55 kg	L 0–6	Pool 1 3	Did not advance			9
		L 5–6
Ali Ashkani	60 kg	W 11–0	Pool 2 1	L 1–4	Did not advance		5
		W 3–2
Mehdi Nassiri	66 kg	L 1–2	Pool 4 3		Did not advance		9
		L Fall
Parviz Zeidvand	74 kg	W 10–0	Pool 3 1		L 1–3	3rd place match W 3–0
		W 13–0
Majid Ramezani	84 kg	L 1–7	Pool 2 3	Did not advance			8
		W 6–1
		L 2–6
Masoud Hashemzadeh	96 kg	W 3–0	Pool 2 2	W 3–1	L 1–3	3rd place match W 4–0
		L 0–4		W 3–0
Alireza Gharibi	120 kg	W 11–0	Pool 3 1		L 0–3	3rd place match W 4–2
		W 8–0

Wushu

See main article: Wushu at the 2002 Asian Games.

Men's taolu^[18]

Men's sanda^[19]

Athlete	Event	1st preliminary round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mehdi Jafarpour	52 kg	W 2–1	L 1–2	Did not advance	5
Ramin Movahednia	56 kg	L 1–2	Did not advance	9
Mehdi Mohammadinasab	60 kg	L 0–2	Did not advance	9
Mohammad Aghaei	65 kg	W 2–0	W 2–0	W 2–1	L 0–2
Hossein Ojaghi	70 kg		W 2–0	W 2–0	W 2–0

External links

• Iran Olympic Committee - Asian Games Medalists
• Iran National Sports Organization - Asian Games Medalists

Notes and References

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2. Web site: アジア大会　2002年10月6日-10日. www.usiwakamaru.or.jp. 22 December 2011. 6 March 2012. https://web.archive.org/web/20120306220056/http://www.usiwakamaru.or.jp/~doraemon/olympic/ajia2002.htm. dead.
3. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 121–142 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
4. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 168 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
5. Web site: Asian Canoeing (Olympic 2002). Asian Canoe Confederation. 22 December 2011.
6. Web site: 14th Asian Games – JR . Cycling News. 22 December 2011.
7. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 396–398 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
8. Web site: Asian Games 2002 (South Korea). 23 November 2006. RSSSF. 22 December 2011.
9. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 456–463 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
10. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 477–481 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
11. Web site: Asian Games – BUSAN, 2002. ISSF. 22 December 2011.
12. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 719–725 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
13. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 727–729 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
14. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 744 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
15. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 750–757 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
16. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 766–772 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
17. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 773–779 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
18. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 786–788 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .
19. Web site: The 14th Busan Asian Games – Results Book . 789–793 . 24 December 2011 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131005003505/http://www.busan.go.kr/data/01_cityhall/05/result.pdf . 5 October 2013 .