| Noc: | IRI |
| Nocname: | National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
| Games: | Summer Olympics |
| Year: | 2020 |
| Website: | |
| Location: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Competitors: | 65 |
| Sports: | 17 |
| Flagbearer Close: | Amir Hossein Zare |
| Rank: | 27 |
| Gold: | 3 |
| Silver: | 2 |
| Bronze: | 2 |
| Appearances: | auto |
Iran (officially the Islamic Republic of Iran) competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place during the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] Since the nation's return in 1948 after having made their debut in 1900, Iranian athletes have attended every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of 1980 and 1984 which they boycotted.
| width=180 | Sport | width=55 | Men | width=55 | Women | width=55 | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archery | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Athletics | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Badminton | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Basketball | 12 | 0 | 12 | ||||
| Boxing | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Canoeing | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Cycling | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Fencing | 4 | 0 | 4 | ||||
| Karate | 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| Rowing | 0 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Shooting | 2 | 4 | 6 | ||||
| Swimming | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Table Tennis | 1 | 0 | 1 | ||||
| Taekwondo | 2 | 1 | 3 | ||||
| Volleyball | 12 | 0 | 12 | ||||
| Weightlifting | 2 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Wrestling | 11 | 0 | 11 | ||||
| Total | 55 | 10 | 65 |
See main article: Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Archery at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. One Iranian archer qualified for the men's individual recurve by advancing to the semifinal stage and obtaining one of the three available spots at the 2019 Asian Championships in Bangkok, Thailand.[2]
Iranian athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event):[3] [4]
| Athlete | Event | Heat | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||
| Hassan Taftian | Men's 100 m | 10.19 | 4 | Did not advance | ||||||
| Mahdi Pirjahan | Men's 400 m hurdles | Withdrew after testing positive for COVID-19 | ||||||||
| Farzaneh Fasihi | Women's 100 m | 11.76 | 1 Q | 11.79 | 8 | Did not advance | ||||
See main article: Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Badminton at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iranian women's badminton player, Sorayya Aghaei, got the allocation quotas from the Badminton World Federation after Airi Mikkela withdrew. She is the first ever women's badminton player to represent Iran at the Olympic Games.[5]
See main article: article and Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
See main article: article and Basketball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament. Iran men's basketball team qualified for the Olympics as the highest-ranked Asian squad at the 2019 FIBA World Cup in China, marking the country's return to the sport after a twelve-year absence.[6] [7]
See main article: Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Boxing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran entered two male boxers into the Olympic tournament. 19-year-old Danial Shahbakhsh (men's featherweight) and Asia's second-seeded boxer Seyed Shahin Mousavi (men's middleweight) secured the spots on the Iranian squad, by scoring a box-off triumph each in their respective weight divisions at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.[8]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
| Danial Shahbakhsh | Men's featherweight | W 5–0 | L | Did not advance | ||||
| Seyed Shahin Mousavi | Men's middleweight | L 2–3 | Did not advance | |||||
See main article: Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Canoeing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Iran qualified a single boat (men's K-1 1000 m) for the Games by winning the gold medal at the 2021 Asian Canoe Sprint Qualification Regatta in Pattaya, Thailand.[9]
Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)See main article: Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Cycling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification.
Iran entered one rider to compete in the men's Olympic road race, by virtue of his top 50 national finish (for men) in the UCI World Ranking.[10]
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| align=left rowspan=2 | Saeid Safarzadeh | Men's road race | Did not finish | |
| Men's time trial | 1:05:14.62 | 35 | ||
See main article: Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Fencing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iranian fencers qualified a full squad in the men's team sabre for the first time at the Games, as the highest-ranked nation from Asia outside the world's top four in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings.[11]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | |||
| Mojtaba Abedini | align=left rowspan=3 | Men's sabre | W 15–10 | L 7–15 | Did not advance | ||||
W 15–12 | W 15–9 | L 6–15 | Did not advance | ||||||
| Mohammad Rahbari | W 15–13 | L 7–15 | Did not advance | ||||||
| Mojtaba Abedini Ali Pakdaman Mohammad Rahbari Mohammad Fotouhi* | Men's team sabre | L 44–45 | Classification semifinal W 45–36 | Fifth place final L 24–45 | 6 | ||||
See main article: Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Karate at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran entered three karateka into the inaugural Olympic tournament. Sajjad Ganjzadeh (men's +75 kg), Sara Bahmanyar (women's 55 kg), and Hamideh Abbasali (women's +61 kg) qualified directly for their respective kumite categories by finishing among the top four karateka at the end of the combined WKF Olympic Rankings.[12] [13]
| Athlete | Event | Group stage | Semifinals | Final | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||||
| Sajjad Ganjzadeh | Men's +75 kg | W 3–1 | D 0–0 | W 6–0 | W 2–1 | 1 Q | W 2–2 | W 4–0 | |||
| Sara Bahmanyar | Women's −55 kg | W 5–4 | L 1–5 | L 2–5 | 3 | Did not advance | |||||
| Hamideh Abbasali | Women's +61 kg | W 4–0 | L 0–4 | W 9–7 | L 4–8 | 4 | Did not advance | ||||
See main article: Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Rowing at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Games by winning the silver medal and securing the second of five berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan.[14]
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=RepechageSee main article: Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Shooting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iranian shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and Asian Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by May 31, 2020.[15]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | |||
| Javad Foroughi | Men's 10 m air pistol | 580 | 5 Q | 244.8 | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Mahyar Sedaghat | Men's 10 m air rifle | 629.1 | 9 | Did not advance | |||
| Men's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1168 | 20 | Did not advance | |||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Fatemeh Karamzadeh | Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1163 | 22 | Did not advance | |||
| Women's 10 m air rifle | 624.9 | 23 | Did not advance | |||||
| Najmeh Khedmati | Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions | 1165 | 18 | Did not advance | ||||
| align=left rowspan=2 | Hanieh Rostamian | Women's 10 m air pistol | 576 | 10 | Did not advance | |||
| Women's 25 m pistol | 577 | 28 | Did not advance | |||||
| Armina Sadeghian | Women's 10 m air rifle | 622.6 | 30 | Did not advance | ||||
| Mahyar Sedaghat Najmeh Khedmati | Mixed 10 m air rifle team | 624.9 | 15 | Did not advance | ||||
| Javad Foroughi Hanieh Rostamian | Mixed 10 m air pistol team | 575 | 8 Q | 382 | 5 | Did not advance | ||
See main article: Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Swimming at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran received an Universality invitation from FINA to send a male swimmer to the 2020 Summer Olympics.
See main article: Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Table tennis at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran entered one athlete into the table tennis competition at the Games. Rio 2016 Olympian Nima Alamian scored a zonal-match triumph for Central Asia to book a men's singles spot at the Asian Qualification Tournament in Doha, Qatar.[16]
See main article: Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Taekwondo at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran entered three athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Games. Armin Hadipour (men's 58 kg) qualified directly for their respective weight classes by finishing among the top five, while Mirhashem Hosseini received a spare berth freed up by the 2019 World Grand Slam winner in the men's lightweight category (68 kg), as the next highest-placed taekwondo practitioner, not yet qualified, in the WT Olympic Rankings. On the women's side, Nahid Kiani scored a semifinal victory in the lightweight category (57 kg) to book the remaining spot on the Iranian taekwondo squad at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan.[17]
| Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
| Armin Hadipour | Men's −58 kg | W 22–19 | L 6–26 | Did not advance | |||||
| Mirhashem Hosseini | Men's −68 kg | W 18–15 | L 22–34 | Did not advance | L 21–30 | Did not advance | 7 | ||
| Nahid Kiani | Women's −57 kg | L 9–18 | Did not advance | ||||||
See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
See main article: Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament and Volleyball at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Men's qualification. Iran men's volleyball team qualified for the Olympics by winning the final match and securing an outright berth at the Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Jiangmen, China.[18]
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See main article: Weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Weightlifting at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran entered two weightlifters into the Olympic competition. Rio 2016 Olympian and 2017 world champion Ali Hashemi (men's 109 kg) and the reigning Asian champion Ali Davoudi (men's +109 kg) secured one of the top eight slots each in their respective weight divisions based on the IWF Absolute World Rankings.
| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | |||||
| Ali Hashemi | Men's –109 kg | 184 | 5 | 184 | ||||
| Ali Davoudi | Men's +109 kg | 200 | 2 | 241 | 2 | 441 | ||
See main article: Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics and Wrestling at the 2020 Summer Olympics – Qualification. Iran qualified eleven wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Five of them finished among the top six to book Olympic spots in the men's freestyle (57 and 86 kg), men's Greco-Roman (60, 77, and 130 kg) at the 2019 World Championships, while five additional licenses were awarded to the Iranian wrestlers, who progressed to the top two finals of their respective weight categories at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Almaty, Kazakhstan.[19] [20]
On February 19, 2020, United World Wrestling awarded an additional Olympic license to Iran in men's freestyle 125 kg, as a response to the doping violations on the Syrian and Uzbek wrestler at the World Championships.[21]
| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
| Reza Atri | Men's −57 kg | W 3–1 PP | W 3–1 PP | L 1–3 PP | L 1–3 PP | 5 | ||
| Morteza Ghiasi | Men's −65 kg | W 3–1 PP | L 0–5 VT | Did not advance | 8 | |||
| Men's −74 kg | L 0–3 PO | Did not advance | 15 | |||||
| Hassan Yazdani | Men's −86 kg | W 3–1 PP | W 4–1 SP | W 3–1 PP | L 1–3 PP | |||
| Mohammad Mohammadian | Men's −97 kg | L 1–3 PP | Did not advance | 13 | ||||
| Amir Hossein Zare | Men's −125 kg | W 3–0 PO | W 4–1 SP | L 1–3 PP | W 3–0 PO | |||
| Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage | Final / | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
| Alireza Nejati | Men's −60 kg | L 1–3 PP | Did not advance | 10 | ||||
| Mohammad Reza Geraei | Men's −67 kg | W 4–0 ST | W 3–1 PP | W 3–1 PP | W 4–1 ST | |||
| Mohammad Ali Geraei | Men's −77 kg | W 3–1 PP | W 3–1 PP | L 1–3 PP | L 1–4 SP | 5 | ||
| Mohammad Hadi Saravi | Men's −97 kg | W 4–0 ST | W 3–0 PO | L 1–3 PP | W 3–1 PP | |||
| Amin Mirzazadeh | Men's −130 kg | W 3–0 PO | L 0–4 ST | Did not advance | W 3–1 PP | L 1–3 PP | 5 | |
In addition to these athletes, 8 Iranians were invited by different international federations to participate in this event.
Mohammad Mosallaeipour will referee as an Iranian wrestling referee at the 2020 Summer Olympics. Afshin Badiee will serve as a member of the Jury of ITTF and Simin Rezaei will referee in Table tennis.
Also, Majid Naseri Khorram will referee in Cycling in 2020 summer Olympics. Farhad Moradi Shahpar as member of medical commission of the World Swimming Federation (FINA). as ITO (Technical Representative) in International Weightlifting Federation. Ahmad Donyamali will serve as a Board Member of the International Canoe Federation, and will be Member of the Executive Board of FIFA.[22] [23]