Iran at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics explained

Games:	Summer Youth Olympics
Games Link:	2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Year:	2018
Noc:	IRI
Nocname:	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Competitors:	49
Sports:	18
Location:	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Start Date:	6
End Date:	18 October 2018
Gold:	7
Silver:	3
Bronze:	4
Rank:	7
Appearances:	auto
Website:	http://www.olympic.ir/

Iran participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Competitors

width=180	Sport	width=55	Boys	width=55	Girls	width=55	Total
3x3 basketball		4	4
Aquatics, Swimming	1		1
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	3		3
Boxing	1		1
Canoeing	1	1	2
Equestrian	1		1
Fencing	1		1
Futsal	10		10
Gymnastics, Artistic	1		1
Judo	1	1	2
Karate	2	3	5
Rowing		1	1
Shooting	2		2
Table tennis	1		1
Taekwondo	3	3	6
Weightlifting	2		2
Wrestling	4		4
Total	35	14	49

Medal summary

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Medal	Name	Sport	Event
			Men's +68 kg
			Women's 63 kg
			Men's 73 kg
			Men's +73 kg
			Men's +85 kg
			Men's Greco-Roman 45 kg
			Men's Greco-Roman 92 kg
			Women's +63 kg
			Men's Freestyle 65 kg
			Men's Freestyle 110 kg
			Men's Pommel horse
			Women's 53 kg
			Women's 59 kg
			Women's +59 kg

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Medals by sport
Sport	bgcolor=#f7f6a8		bgcolor=#dce5e5		bgcolor=#ffdab9	Total
Gymnastics	0	0	1	1
Karate	1	0	3	4
Taekwondo	3	1	0	4
Weightlifting	1	0	0	1
Wrestling	2	2	0	4
Total	7	3	4	14

Results by event

3x3 basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Girls^[1]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad list	Group A	Rank	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Fatemeh Aghazadegan Fatemeh Bidar Negin Rasoulipour Aida Golmohammadi Coach: Elaheh Darestani	L 0–22	5	Did not advance	19
	L 14–18
	L 9–19
	L 13–15

Girls

Athlete	Event	Preliminary			Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Time	Rank	Score	Time	Rank
Fatemeh Aghazadegan	Shoot-out	4	29.4	15	did not advance
Fatemeh Bidar	Shoot-out	3	30.0	26	did not advance

Aquatics

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boys^[2]

Archery

See main article: Archery at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boys' recurve^[3]

Girls' recurve

Mixed recurve

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Team	1305	4	W 5–1 39–33, 35–35, 37–32	L 3–6 36–36, 34–34, 36–36, 33–36	Did not advance	9
	Team	1298	21	L 0–6 25–35, 35–37, 36–37	Did not advance	17

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boys

Canoeing

See main article: Canoeing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Iran qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2018 World Qualification Event.^[4]

Boys' C1 – 1 boat
Girls' C1 – 1 boat

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Repechage		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /	Rank
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sobhan Beiranvand	Boys' C1 sprint	2:01.21	12	2:00.11	6	Did not advance
Boys' C1 slalom	1:27.60	7	1:27.62	4	L 1:25.72	Did not advance
Nirvana Asadbeki	Girls' C1 sprint	2:27.28	8	W 2:26.89	L 2:28.81	Did not advance
Girls' C1 slalom	1:28.57	2	W 1:29.00	W 1:29.87	L 1:28.53	L 1:29.56	4

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Iran qualified a rider based on its ranking in the FEI World Jumping Challenge Rankings.^[5]

Individual Jumping – 1 athlete

Summary

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification					Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round A		Round B
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Arshia Najafinia	La Trinidad	align=left rowspan=1	Individual	20	27	12	12	27	32	27
Mix Australasia	La Corina Lala La Trinidad Milagro Maximo Pietro Zambo	Team	24	=1 Q	36	60	5	60	4

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boys

Futsal

See main article: Futsal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Summary

Team roster

Group stage------------

Gymnastics

See main article: Gymnastics at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Artistic

Iran qualified one gymnasts based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship.^[6]

Boys' artistic individual all-around – 1 quota

Boys

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Athlete	Event							Total	Rank
Reza Bohloulzade Hajlari	align=left	Qualification	12.766	13.166	11.300	12.333	12.800	11.766	74.131	18
All-around	12.566	13.133	11.866	12.766	12.133	12.233	74.397	13
Pommel horse		13.241	13.241

Multidiscipline

Team	Acrobatic	Artistic	Rhythmic	Trampoline
Team Anna Bessonova (Gray)	15	381	4
	99			colspan=2 rowspan=6
	65
	36
	42
	10
	11
	40			rowspan=3
	13
	26
	15
	9

Judo

See main article: Judo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals				Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Abolfazl Shojaei	Boys' −100 kg	W 10–00	L 11–00	Did not advance	L 10–01	Did not advance	7
Maral Mardani	Girl' −78 kg	L 00–10	did not advance			L 00–10	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance	9

Karate

See main article: Karate at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Iran qualified five athletes based on its performance at one of the Karate Qualification Tournaments.^[7]

Boys' −61 kg – Alireza Faraji
Boys' +68 kg – Navid Mohammadi
Girls' −53 kg – Fatemeh Khonakdar
Girls' −59 kg – Mobina Heidari
Girls' +59 kg – Negin Altooni

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final /
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Alireza Faraji	Boys' 61 kg	L 0-5	L 0-4	L 0-1	4	Colspan=3	Did not advance
Navid Mohammadi	Boys' +68 kg	W 5-2	L 0-2	W 1-0	2	D 3-3	W 5-0
Fatemeh Khonakdar	Girls' 53 kg	L 0-1	W 2-0	W 6-0	2	L 0-5	Did not advance
Mobina Heidari	Girls' 59 kg	L0-8	W1-0	W2-0	2	D0-0	Did not advance
Negin Altooni	Girls' +59 kg	W5-1	D0-0	L0-1	2	L0-4	Did not advance

Rowing

See main article: Rowing at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Iran qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualification Regatta.^[8]

Girls' single sculls – 1 athlete

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Amirsiyavash Zolfagharian	Boys' 10 m air rifle	628.5	1	119.9	8
Erfan Salavati	Boys' 10 m air pistol	580	2	174.7	5

Team

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final /
Athletes	Event	Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
	Mixed 10 metre air pistol	755-16	1	L 5-10	Did not advance
	Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle	823.2	9 Q	W 10 - 9	L 9 - 10	Did not advance		6

Table tennis

See main article: Table tennis at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Taekwondo

See main article: Taekwondo at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boys

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Hamed Asghari	63 kg	Bye	L 8–9	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance	5
Ali Eshkevarian	73 kg	Bye	W 19–17	W 29–5	W 17–16
Mohammadali Khosravi	+73 kg	Bye	W 16–11	W 19–16	W 2–1

Girls

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mahla Momenzadeh	44 kg	W 32–0	L 14–15	align=center colspan="2"	did not advance	5
Yalda Valinejad	63 kg	Bye	W 12–2	W 26–22	W 23–17
Kimia Hemmati	+63 kg	Bye	W 19–8	W 21–19	L 16–18

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boys^[9]

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
Amir Reza Askaridoun	85 kg	133	165	298	4
Alireza Yousefi	+85 kg	162	218	380

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics.

Boys' freestyle

Athlete	Event	Pools		Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Groups	Rank	Final	Rank
Mohammad Karimi	65 kg	W 6–5	Group B 1	L 1–6
Mohammad Karimi	65 kg	W 10–0		L 1–6
Amir Hossein Zare	110 kg	W 11–0	Group A 1	L 5–6
Amir Hossein Zare	110 kg	W 11–0		L 5–6

Boys' Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Pools		Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Groups	Rank	Final	Rank
Amir Reza Dehbozorgi	45 kg	W 3–1	Group A 1	W 8–0
Amir Reza Dehbozorgi	45 kg	W 10–0		W 8–0
Mohammad Nosrati	92 kg	W 5–0	Group B 1	W 3–1
Mohammad Nosrati	92 kg	W 5–3		W 3–1

Notes and References

Web site: 3rd Summer Youth Olympics . FIBA . 30 June 2021.
Web site: Official Results Book – Swimming. IOC. 20 June 2021.
Web site: Official Results Book – Archery. IOC. 30 June 2021.
Web site: Nine countries set to make YOG canoeing debut. 21 April 2018. International Canoe Federation (ICF). 14 May 2018.
News: Qualified NOC’s to the 3rd Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires – 2018 . . 17 January 2018 . 17 January 2018 .
News: 2018 Youth Olympic Games Gymnastics Qualifiers . . 25 June 2018 . 26 June 2018.
News: Youth Olympic qualifier concludes in Umag with new karatekas making it to Buenos Aires 2018 . . 1 July 2018 . 1 July 2018.
News: 2018 Youth Olympic Games Rowing Places Obtained . . 30 October 2017 . 10 November 2017.
Web site: Weightlifting Results – Youth Olympic Games. IWF. 2 July 2021.