Iran at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Iran participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, with a delegation of 23 athletes (all men) in 24 competitions in five sports part. There were four medals ( one silver and three bronze ) are obtained. The youngest athlete was the wrestler Mansour Mehdizadeh (22 years and 19 days), the oldest athlete was the wrestler Yaqub Ali Shourvarzi (36 years and 121 days). It was the fifth participation in the Olympic Summer Games for the country. Standard-bearer was the weightlifter Mohammad Jafar Salmasi.
- 2.1 boxes
- 2.2 weightlifting
- 2.3 Athletics
- 2.4 rings
- 2.5 Shooting
Medalist
Silver
Bronze
Participants by sport
Boxing
- Sadegh Ali Akbarzadeh Khoi bantamweight
- Vazik Ghazavian Light Welterweight
- Ezrael Illkhanouf flyweight
- Ghasem Yavarkandi welterweight
Weightlifting
- Esmail Khah bantamweight
- Amiri Mangashti Light heavyweight
- Ali Safa Sonboli feather-weight
- Henrik Tamraz Lightweight
- Mohamed Tehraniami middle-weight
Athletics
- Rouhollah Rahmani Triple Jump
Wrestling
Freestyle
- Emam Ali Habibi welterweight
- Mohammad Khadem Khorasani feather-weight
- Mansour Mahdizadeh middle-weight
- Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour flyweight
- Yaqub Ali Shourvarzi heavyweight
- Moustafa Tajiki Lightweight
- Gholamreza Takhti Light Heavyweight
- Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi bantamweight
Greco-Roman
- Ali Bani Hashemi bantamweight
- Hossein Ebrahimian feather-weight
- Mansour Hazrati middle-weight
- Mohammad Paziraei flyweight
- Gholam Hossein Mobaser Small Bore Three Positions
- Small caliber lying