Iran at the 2000 Summer Olympics
The 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney were the 12th Summer Games with Iranian participation. The Iranian team consisted of 35 athletes, including a woman and reached the 27th place in the medal table.
- 2.1 Athletics
- 2.2 boxes
- 2.3 canoe
- 2.4 Cycling
- 2.5 riding
- 2.6 Judo
- 2.7 shooting
- 2.8 Swimming
- 2.9 Table Tennis
- 2:10 Taekwondo
- 2:11 weightlifting
- 2:12 rings 2.12.1 Freestyle
- 2.12.2 Greco-Roman
Medals
Gold
- Hossein Tavakoli - weightlifting, 105 kg
- Hossein Rezazadeh - Weightlifting, 105 kg
- Alireza Dabir - Wrestling, Freestyle 58 kg
Bronze
- Hadi Saei - Taekwondo, 68 kg
Results by sport
Athletics
800 m:
- Mehdi Jelodarzadeh - 35th place Round 1-6. Place in advance 6, 1:47,91 min excreted,
Boxing
51 kg, Men:
- Mohammad Rahim Rahimi - excreted
- Round of 32 - backing Drissa Tou from Burkina Faso
57 kg, Men:
- Bijan Batmani - excreted Round of 32 - Ricardo Juarez backing from the United States, referee ended the fight
63.5 kg, Men:
- Anoushirvan Nourian - excreted Round of 32 - Olusegun Ajose backing from Nigeria
67 kg, Men:
- Babak Moghimi - excreted Round of 32 - backing Sherzod Husanov from Uzbekistan, 15-5
91 kg, Men:
- Rouhollah Hosseini - excreted Round of 16 - underlay Mark Simmons from Canada, 11-6
Canoe
Flatwater
One kayak 500 m:
- Nader Eivazi - 29th place Heats - 8th place in advance 3, 1:49,306 min excreted,
One kayak 1000 m:
- Nader Eivazi - 31st place Heats - 8th place in flow 2, 3:59,767 min excreted,
Cycling
Road race:
- Hossein Askari - not finished
- Ahad Kazemi - not finished
Riding
Individual Jumping:
- Ali Nilforoushan - 56th place Qualification - 50.50 penalties, excreted
Judo
66 kg, Men:
- Arash Miresmaeili - 5th Place Round of 64 - Bye
- Round of 32 - Huseyin Ozkan backing from Turkey by waza -ari
- Repechage round of 32 - Defeated Georgi Georgiev from Bulgaria by ippon
- Repechage round of 16 - Defeated Zhang Guangjun from China by ippon
- Repechage Quarterfinals - Defeated Yukimasa Nakamura from Japan by ippon
- Bronze Medal Match - backing Girolamo Giovinazzo from Italy by yuko
81 kilograms, men:
- Kazem sarikhani - 7th place Round of 64 - Bye
- Round of 32 - Defeated Brahima Guindo from Mali by ippon
- Round of 16 - Defeated Graeme Randall from Great Britain by ippon
- Quarter-finals - backing Nuno Delgado from Portugal by ippon
- Repechage round of 16 - Defeated Daniel Kelly from Australia by ippon
- Repechage Quarterfinals - backing Aleksei Budolin from Estonia by ippon
100 Kg, Men:
- Mahmoud Miran - excreted Round of 64 - Bye
- Round of 32 - backing Frank Möller of Germany by koka
Air pistol 10 m, women:
- Manijeh Kazemi - 43rd Qualification -362 points excreted,
Swimming
100m freestyle:
- Hamidreza Mobarrez - 65th place Heats - 54,12 s excreted,
Table tennis
Single:
- Majid Reza Ehteshamzadeh - excreted Group stage - 3rd place in Group J excreted, Underlay Trinko Keen from the Netherlands, 3-0
- Underlay Daniel Tsiokas from Greece, 3-0
Taekwondo
68 kg, Men:
- Hadi Saei - Bronze Round of 16 - Defeated Hsu Chi -Hung of Chinese Taipei, 5-2
- Quarterfinals - Defeated Alejandro Hernando from Argentina, 3-0
- Semifinal - backing Sin Joon -Sik of South Korea, 5-3
- Repechage Semifinal - Defeated Carlo Massimino from Australia, 6-5
- Bronze Medal Match - Defeated Tuncay Caliskan from Austria, 4-2
80 kg, Men:
- Majid Aflaki - excreted Round of 16 - backing Victor Manuel Estrada from Mexico, 4-3
Weightlifting
62 kg, Men:
- Mehdi Panzvan - 5th place, 302.5 kg
77 kg, Men:
- Mohammad Hossein Barkhah - no placement
85kg, Men:
- Shahin Nasirinia - no placement
94 kg, Men:
- Kourosh Bagheri - 4th place, 402.5 kg
105 kg, Men:
- Hossein Tavakoli - gold, 425 kg
105 Kg, Men:
- Hossein Rezazadeh - gold, 472.5 kg
Wrestling
Freestyle
54 kg, Men:
- Behnam Tayyebi - 13th Place Preliminary Round - 3rd Place in Pool 6, excreted Defeated Tumendemberel Zuunbayan from Mongolia, 3-2
- Underlay Amiran Karntanov from Greece, 7-0
- Underlay Vitalie Railean of Moldova, 2-1
58kg, Men:
- Alireza Dabir - Gold Preliminary Round - 1st place in Pool 1 Defeated Talata Embalo from Guinea- Bissau, 10-0
- Defeated Guivi Sissaouri from Canada, 3-0
- Quarterfinals - Defeated Oyunbileg Purevbaatar of Mongolia, 5-2
- Semifinal - Defeated Terry Brands from the United States, 6-4
- Final - Defeated Yevgen Buslovych from Ukraine, 3-0
63 kg, Men:
- Mohammad Talaei - 4th place Preliminary Round - 1st place in Pool 3 Defeated Cary Kolat from the United States, 5-4
- Defeated Ramil Islamov from Uzbekistan
- Quarterfinals - Defeated Arshak Hayrapetyan from Armenia, 3-2
- Semifinal - backing Serafim Barzakov from Bulgaria, 4-0
- Bronze Medal Match - backing Jang Jae- Sung of South Korea, 12-2
69 kg, Men:
- Amir Tavakkolian - 10th Place Preliminary Round - 2nd place in Pool 1, excreted Defeated Emzar Bedineishvili from Georgia, 5-4
- Underlay Daniel Igali from Canada, 2-2
76 kg, Men:
- Pejman Dorostkar - 12th Place Preliminary Round - 2nd place in Pool 2, excreted Defeated Tumen Ulzii Munkhbayar of Mongolia, 3-0
- Underlay Gennadiy Laliyev from Kazakhstan, 3-1
85kg, Men:
- Amir Reza Khadem - 4th place Preliminary Round - 1st place in Pool 6 Defeated Ghiţă Nicolae from Romania, 5-3
- Defeated Akesse Aka from Ivory Coast, 4-0
- Defeated Capuvari Gabor from Hungary, 5-3
- Quarter-finals - bye
- Semifinal - backing Yoel Romero of Cuba, 3-0
- Bronze Medal Match - Magomed Ibragimov backing from Macedonia, 4-1
97 kg, Men:
- Alireza Heidari - 6th place Preliminary Round - 1st place in Pool 2 Defeated Rolf Scherrer of Switzerland, 7-1
- Defeated Dogu Ahmet from Turkey, 6-1
- Quarter-finals - backing Eldar Kurtanidze from Georgia, 1-0
- 5th Place Match - backing Aftandil Xanthopoulos from Greece
130 kg, Men:
- Abbas Jadidi - 4th place Preliminary Round - 1st place in Pool 6 Defeated Efstathios Topalidis from Greece, 9-1
- Defeated Alex Modebadze from Georgia, 4-0
- Quarter-finals - bye
- Semifinal - backing Dawid Mussulbes from Russia, 3-0
- Bronze Medal Match - backing Alexis Rodríguez Valera from Cuba, 1-0
Greco-Roman
54 kg, Men:
- Hassan Rangraz - 14th Place Preliminary Round - 2nd place in Pool 3, excreted Defeated Petr Svehla from the Czech Republic, 8-2
- Underlay Wang Hui from China, 8-2
58kg, Men:
- Ali Ashkani - 5th Place Preliminary Round - 1st place in Pool 2 Istvan Majoros defeated Hungary, 5-1
- Defeated Koba Guliashvaili from Georgia, 7-0
- Quarter-finals - backing Kim In -Sub from South Korea, 3-1
69 kg, Men:
- Parviz Zeidvand - 16th Place Preliminary Round - 3rd Place in Pool 3, excreted Underlay Islam Dugushiev from Azerbaijan, 5-0
- Underlay Juha Lappalainen from Finland, 2-1