Iran at the 2018 Asian Games

Iran at the 2018 Asian Games
IOC code	IRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in Jakarta and Palembang August 18 (18-08) – September 2 (2-09)
Competitors	378 in 30 sports
Flag bearer	Elaheh Ahmadi[1]
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 20 Silver 20 Bronze 22 Total 62
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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Iran competed in the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta and Palembang, Indonesia from 18 August to 2 September 2018. Iran has competed at the Asian Games since the first event in 1951 Delhi, and the best achievement was in 1974, when the country hosted the event in Tehran, by ranked second with the acquisition of 36 gold, 28 silver and 17 bronze medals.^[2] At the latest edition in Incheon, the country wrapped up its campaign with 57 medals in all - 21 gold, 18 silver and 18 bronze.^[3]

Iran participated at the Games with 378 athletes.^[4] The National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran (NOCIRI) named the 19-year-old Iranian and bronze medalist at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, Kimia Alizadeh, who carried the Iranian flag at the inauguration of the competitions.^[5] But within 12 days to start of the tournament, she suffered a torn ACL injury during training. Elaheh Ahmadi was confirmed to replace her.^[6] Minister of Sports and Youth Affairs, Masoud Soltanifar, eyes fourth place at the Games.^[7]

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Aquatics, Diving	2		2
Aquatics, Swimming	4		4
Aquatics, Water polo	13		13
Archery	8	5	13
Athletics	10	2	12
Badminton	1	1	2
Basketball	12		12
Basketball, 3x3	4	4	8
Boxing	3		3
Canoeing, Canoe polo	6	6	12
Canoeing, Slalom	2	2	4
Canoeing, Sprint	9	4	13
Cycling, Mountain bike	3	1	4
Cycling, Road	5	1	6
Cycling, Track	6		6
Equestrian	5	1	6
Esports	3		3
Fencing	7	4	11
Football	20		20
Gymnastics, Artistic	4		4
Handball	16		16
Judo	4	2	6
Ju-jitsu	8	2	10
Kabaddi	12	12	24
Karate	4	4	8
Kurash	8	4	12
Paragliding	3		3
Pencak silat	6	3	9
Rowing	8	6	14
Sailing	2		2
Sambo	2	2	4
Sepak takraw	12		12
Shooting	10	9	19
Sport climbing	4	4	8
Squash	2	3	5
Table tennis	4	4	8
Taekwondo	8	8	16
Tennis	3	2	5
Triathlon	1		1
Volleyball, Beach	4		4
Volleyball, Indoor	14		14
Weightlifting	8		8
Wrestling	12		12
Wushu	4	5	9
Total	284	101	385

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Water polo			1	1
Archery			1	1
Athletics	2	1		3
Basketball		1		1
Basketball, 3x3			1	1
Canoeing, Sprint		1	2	3
Fencing		1	1	2
Judo		1	1	2
Kabaddi	2			2
Karate	2	3	3	8
Kurash	1	1	2	4
Pencak silat			1	1
Rowing		3	1	4
Shooting			1	1
Sport climbing	1			1
Table tennis			1	1
Taekwondo	2	3	2	7
Volleyball	1			1
Weightlifting	2	1	1	4
Wrestling	5		3	8
Wushu	2	4		6
Total	20	20	22	62

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Hossein Keyhani	Athletics	Men's 3000 m steeplechase
Gold	Ehsan Haddadi	Athletics	Men's discus throw
Gold	Fazel Atrachali Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh Mohammad Amin Nosrati Hadi Oshtorak Mohammad Mallak Mohammad Ghorbani Esmaeil Maghsoudloo Meisam Abbasi Mohsen Maghsoudloo Abouzar Mohajer Abolfazl Maghsoudloo Hamid Mirzaei	Kabaddi	Men
Gold	Ghazal Khalaj Mahboubeh Sanchouli Farideh Zarifdoust Saeideh Jafari Raheleh Naderi Roya Davoudian Samira Atarodian Fatemeh Karami Azadeh Seidi Sedigheh Jafari Zahra Karimi Zahra Abbasi	Kabaddi	Women
Gold	Bahman Askari	Karate	Men's kumite 75 kg
Gold	Sajjad Ganjzadeh	Karate	Men's kumite +84 kg
Gold	Elias Aliakbari	Kurash	Men's 81 kg
Gold	Reza Alipour	Sport climbing	Men's speed
Gold	Mirhashem Hosseini	Taekwondo	Men's 63 kg
Gold	Saeid Rajabi	Taekwondo	Men's +80 kg
Gold	Milad Ebadipour Saman Faezi Saeid Marouf Farhad Ghaemi Mohammad Mousavi Amir Ghafour Saber Kazemi Mohammad Javad Manavinejad Ali Shafiei Mohammad Taher Vadi Mehdi Marandi Morteza Sharifi Mohammad Reza Hazratpour Amir Hossein Toukhteh	Volleyball	Men
Gold	Sohrab Moradi	Weightlifting	Men's 94 kg
Gold	Behdad Salimi	Weightlifting	Men's +105 kg
Gold	Hassan Yazdani	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 86 kg
Gold	Alireza Karimi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 97 kg
Gold	Parviz Hadi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 125 kg
Gold	Mohammad Ali Geraei	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 77 kg
Gold	Hossein Nouri	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg
Gold	Erfan Ahangarian	Wushu	Men's sanda 60 kg
Gold	Mohsen Mohammadseifi	Wushu	Men's sanda 70 kg
Silver	Amir Moradi	Athletics	Men's 1500 m
Silver	Meisam Mirzaei Sajjad Mashayekhi Aren Davoudi Behnam Yakhchali Vahid Dalirzahan Rouzbeh Arghavan Mohammad Jamshidi Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Haddadi Navid Rezaeifar Arsalan Kazemi Mohammad Hassanzadeh	Basketball	Men
Silver	Hedieh Kazemi	Canoeing, Sprint	Women's K1 500 m
Silver	Mojtaba Abedini Farzad Baher Ali Pakdaman Mohammad Rahbari	Fencing	Men's team sabre
Silver	Saeid Mollaei	Judo	Men's 81 kg
Silver	Amir Mehdizadeh	Karate	Men's kumite 60 kg
Silver	Taravat Khaksar	Karate	Women's kumite 55 kg
Silver	Rozita Alipour	Karate	Women's kumite 61 kg
Silver	Jafar Pahlevani	Kurash	Men's +90 kg
Silver	Nazanin Malaei	Rowing	Women's lightweight single sculls
Silver	Nazanin Rahmani Maryam Omidi Parsa	Rowing	Women's lightweight double sculls
Silver	Maryam Karami Mahsa Javar Nazanin Rahmani Maryam Omidi Parsa	Rowing	Women's lightweight quadruple sculls
Silver	Kourosh Bakhtiar	Taekwondo	Men's individual poomsae
Silver	Amir Mohammad Bakhshi	Taekwondo	Men's 68 kg
Silver	Marjan Salahshouri	Taekwondo	Women's individual poomsae
Silver	Saeid Alihosseini	Weightlifting	Men's +105 kg
Silver	Foroud Zafari	Wushu	Men's sanda 65 kg
Silver	Zahra Kiani	Wushu	Women's jianshu and qiangshu
Silver	Elaheh Mansourian	Wushu	Women's sanda 52 kg
Silver	Shahrbanoo Mansourian	Wushu	Women's sanda 60 kg
Bronze	Omid Lotfpour Peyman Asadi Amir Hossein Rahbar Hamed Malek-Khanbanan Amir Hossein Keyhani Ali Pirouzkhah Amir Dehdari Mehdi Yazdankhah Soheil Rostamian Mohammad Javad Abbasi Arshia Almasi Hossein Khaledi Shayan Ghasemi	Aquatics, Water polo	Men
Bronze	Nima Mahboubi Fereshteh Ghorbani	Archery	Mixed team compound
Bronze	Ali Allahverdi Amir Hossein Azari Navid Khajehzadeh Mohammad Yousefvand	Basketball, 3x3	Men
Bronze	Mohammad Nabi Rezaei	Canoeing, Sprint	Men's C1 1000 m
Bronze	Ahmad Reza Talebian Peyman Ghavidel Ali Aghamirzaei Amin Boudaghi	Canoeing, Sprint	Men's K4 500 m
Bronze	Ali Pakdaman	Fencing	Men's individual sabre
Bronze	Mohammad Mohammadi	Judo	Men's 73 kg
Bronze	Zabihollah Poursheib	Karate	Men's kumite 84 kg
Bronze	Pegah Zangeneh	Karate	Women's kumite 68 kg
Bronze	Hamideh Abbasali	Karate	Women's kumite +68 kg
Bronze	Ghanbar Ali Ghanbari	Kurash	Men's 66 kg
Bronze	Omid Tiztak	Kurash	Men's 81 kg
Bronze	Tahmineh Karbalaei	Pencak silat	Women's tanding 65 kg
Bronze	Maryam Karami Parisa Ahmadi	Rowing	Women's double sculls
Bronze	Mahlagha Jambozorg	Shooting	Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions
Bronze	Noshad Alamian	Table tennis	Men's singles
Bronze	Farzan Ashourzadeh	Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg
Bronze	Nahid Kiani	Taekwondo	Women's 49 kg
Bronze	Ali Hashemi	Weightlifting	Men's 105 kg
Bronze	Reza Atri	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg
Bronze	Mehrdad Mardani	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 60 kg
Bronze	Mohammad Reza Geraei	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 67 kg

Men^[8]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Mojtaba Valipour	1 m springboard	302.90	9 Q	308.60	8
Shahnam Nazarpour Mojtaba Valipour	Synchronized 10 m platform			318.06	6

Men^[9]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Benyamin Gharehhassanloo	50 m freestyle	23.11	19	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	51.37	26	Did not advance
Sina Gholampour	50 m freestyle	23.54	23	Did not advance
	100 m freestyle	51.06	22	Did not advance
Alireza Yavari	200 m freestyle	1:54.28	22	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	56.10	23	Did not advance
Mehdi Ansari	50 m breaststroke	29.35	20	Did not advance
	50 m butterfly	24.95	20	Did not advance
	100 m butterfly	54.88	17	Did not advance
Sina Gholampour Benyamin Gharehhassanloo Alireza Yavari Mehdi Ansari	4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:26.12	10	Did not advance

Men^[10]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group A	Rank
Omid Lotfpour Peyman Asadi Amir Hossein Rahbar Hamed Malek-Khanbanan Amir Hossein Keyhani Ali Pirouzkhah Amir Dehdari Mehdi Yazdankhah Soheil Rostamian Mohammad Javad Abbasi Arshia Almasi Hossein Khaledi Shayan Ghasemi Coach: Aleksandar Ćirić	Singapore W 11–5	2 Q	Saudi Arabia W 15–7	Japan L 7–18	3rd place match  China W 8–8, 8–7 Pen
	South Korea W 16–11
	Kazakhstan L 5–9

Men^[11]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		1/32 elimination	1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Score	Rank
Erfan Arjangipour	Individual recurve	611	65	Did not advance						72
Sadegh Ashrafi	Individual recurve	644	34 Q	Salem (QAT) L 4–6 27–28, 23–25, 26–25, 28–22, 26–27	Did not advance					33
Amin Pirali	Individual recurve	634	45 Q	Al-Otaibi (KSA) L 0–6 26–27, 27–28, 26–27	Did not advance					33
Milad Vaziri	Individual recurve	616	58	Did not advance						69
Sadegh Ashrafi Amin Pirali Milad Vaziri Erfan Arjangipour	Team recurve	1894	12 Q		Bye	Malaysia W 6–0 57–48, 52–50, 56–55	China L 0–6 54–56, 53–55, 50–51	Did not advance		8
Esmaeil Ebadi Amir Kazempour Nima Mahboubi Majid Gheidi	Team compound	2075	4 Q			Bhutan W 231–217	Malaysia L 224–232	Did not advance		7

Women^[11]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		1/32 elimination	1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Score	Rank
Zahra Nemati	Individual recurve	622	31 Q	Kausar (PAK) W 6–0 27–13, 26–21, 28–19	Tukebayeva (KAZ) W 6–5 27–27, 29–28, 28–28, 26–26, 23–26, 9–9	Choirunisa (INA) L Walkover	Did not advance			9
Minoo Abedi Parisa Baratchi Fereshteh Ghorbani Raheleh Farsi	Team compound	2051	4 Q			Mongolia W 221–203	Kazakhstan W 224–217	South Korea L 228–231	3rd place match  Chinese Taipei L 221–226	4

Mixed^[11]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Score	Rank
Sadegh Ashrafi Zahra Nemati	Team recurve	1266	13 Q	Laos W 5–4 39–30, 34–34, 36–38, 33–33, 19–18	Japan L 0–6 35–37, 34–39, 31–37	Did not advance			9
Nima Mahboubi Fereshteh Ghorbani	Team compound	1384	7 Q	Bye	Japan W 152–152, 19–17 SO	India W 155–153	Chinese Taipei L 138–153	3rd place match  Singapore W 155–152

Men^[12]

Athlete	Event	Round 1			Semifinal			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Hassan Taftian	100 m	5	10.35	4 Q	3	10.17	3 q	10.19	6	6
200 m	2	21.25	3 Q	1	21.47	7	Did not advance		14
Ali Khadivar	200 m	4	Did not start		Did not advance					—
400 m	1	Did not finish		Did not advance					—
Amir Moradi	800 m	2	1:48.31	2 Q				1:46.55	4	4
1500 m	2	3:46.93	3 Q				3:45.62	2
Hossein Keyhani	5000 m							14:08.69	4	4
3000 m steeplechase							8:22.79 GR	1
Reza Malekpour	400 m hurdles	3	50.99	5				Did not advance		11

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Shahin Mehrdelan	Shot put	No mark
Ali Samari	Shot put	18.21	7
Ehsan Haddadi	Discus throw	65.71
Behnam Shiri	Discus throw	58.09	4
Reza Moghaddam	Hammer throw	64.67	9

Women^[12]

Athlete	Event	Round 1			Semifinal			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Elham Kakoli	200 m	1	25.12	5	Did not advance					23

Athlete	Event	Result	Rank
Sepideh Tavakkoli	High jump	1.75	7

Men^[13]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mehran Shahbazi	Singles	Bye	Ginting (INA) L 0–2 9–21, 8–21	Did not advance				17

Women^[14]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Sorayya Aghaei	Singles		Nehwal (IND) L 0–2 7–21, 9–21	Did not advance				17

Men^[15]

Squad list	Preliminary		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Pool D	Rank
Ali Allahverdi Amir Hossein Azari Navid Khajehzadeh Mohammad Yousefvand Coach: Mohammad Kasaeipour	Malaysia W 18–13	1 Q	Chinese Taipei W 18–17	China L 19–21	3rd place match  Thailand W 21–7
	Kazakhstan W 21–15
	Iraq W 19–16
	Turkmenistan W 21–7
	Afghanistan W 20–5

Women^[15]

Squad list	Preliminary		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Pool C	Rank
Sheida Shojaei Kimia Yazdian Zahra Edalatkar Nahideh Asadi Coach: Azadeh Zamanpour	Thailand L 7–11	2 Q	China L 7–21	Did not advance		8
	Kazakhstan W 18–12
	Maldives W Walkover

Men^[16]

Squad list	Preliminary		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group B	Rank
Meisam Mirzaei Sajjad Mashayekhi Aren Davoudi Behnam Yakhchali Vahid Dalirzahan Rouzbeh Arghavan Mohammad Jamshidi Samad Nikkhah Bahrami Hamed Haddadi Navid Rezaeifar Arsalan Kazemi Mohammad Hassanzadeh Coach: Mehran Shahintab	Syria W 68–55	1 Q	Japan W 93–67	South Korea W 80–68	China L 72–84

Men^[17]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Omid Ahmadi Safa	49 kg	Meýleýew (TKM) W 5–0	Kim (PRK) L 2–3	Did not advance			9
Sajjad Kazemzadeh	69 kg	Bacho (PHI) W 4–1	Aramoto (JPN) W 5–0	Adi (THA) L 0–5	Did not advance		5
Shahin Mousavi	75 kg	Bye	Ghossoun (SYR) W 5–0	Madrimov (UZB) L 0–5	Did not advance		5

Men^[18]

Athlete	Event	Heats				Semifinal		Final
		1st run	2nd run	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mohammad Mehdi Konarang	C1	113.80	116.39	116.39	13 Q	134.84	12 Q	176.89	8
Amir Mohammad Fattahpour	K1	91.26	115.08	91.26	7 Q	100.26	8 Q	94.90	5

Women^[18]

Athlete	Event	Heats				Semifinal		Final
		1st run	2nd run	Best	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Shaghayegh Seyed-Yousefi	C1	271.38	179.37	179.37	10 Q	277.14	8 Q	175.35	8
Roksana Razeghian	K1	123.16	112.26	112.26	7 Q	138.59	7 Q	134.03	6

Men^[19]

Athlete	Event	Heat			Semifinal		Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mohammad Nabi Rezaei	C1 1000 m						4:06.434	3
Pejman Divsalari Adel Mojallali	C2 200 m	2	41.596	3 QF			38.399	4	4
Shahoo Nasseri Ali Ojaghi	C2 1000 m						3:49.265	4	4
Ali Aghamirzaei	K1 200 m	2	38.210	4 QS	36.838	2 Q	36.960	6	6
Ali Aghamirzaei Amin Boudaghi	K2 1000 m	2	3:38.202	3 QF			3:35.339	6	6
Ahmad Reza Talebian Peyman Ghavidel Ali Aghamirzaei Amin Boudaghi	K4 500 m	1	1:28.469	2 QF			1:26.217	3

Women^[19]

Athlete	Event	Heat			Semifinal		Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Fatemeh Karamjani Atena Raoufi	C2 500 m						2:10.408	7	7
Arezoo Hakimi	K1 200 m	2	44.170	3 QF			43.594	7	7
Hedieh Kazemi	K1 500 m						2:02.280	2
Hedieh Kazemi Arezoo Hakimi	K2 500 m						1:51.655	5	5

Men^[20]

Athlete	Event	Seeding run		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mohammad Poursharif	Cross-country			1:40:48	5
Faraz Shokri	Cross-country			1:37:54	4
Hossein Zanjanian	Downhill	2:30.962	7	2:21.623	5

Women^[20]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Faranak Partoazar	Cross-country	1:29:24	4

Men^[21]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Mohammad Ganjkhanloo	Road race	3:31:34	33
Samad Pourseyedi	Road race	3:26:10	14
Saeid Safarzadeh	Road race	3:26:00	8
Mehdi Sohrabi	Road race	3:31:34	32
Arvin Moazzami	Individual time trial	58:56.33	6

Women^[21]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Mandana Dehghan	Road race	2:57:40	7
	Individual time trial	35:07.01	6

Men^[22]

Athlete	Event	Qualifying		1/16 final	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Time	Rank
Mohammad Daneshvar	Sprint	10.306	13 Q	Bye	Wakimoto (JPN) L +0.272	Did not advance			13
Ehsan Khademi	Sprint	10.251	11 Q	Bye	Fukaya (JPN) L +0.225	Did not advance			11
Ali Aliaskari Ehsan Khademi Mohammad Daneshvar	Team sprint	45.324	7					Did not advance	7

Athlete	Event	First round			First round repechages			Second round			Final			Rank
		Heat	Gap	Rank	Heat	Gap	Rank	Heat	Gap	Rank	Heat	Gap	Rank
Mohammad Daneshvar	Keirin	3	+1.036	6	1	+0.606	4	Did not advance						13
Ehsan Khademi	Keirin	1	+0.294	4	2	+0.303	4	Did not advance						13

Athlete	Event	Scratch race	Tempo race	Elim. race	Points race	Total	Rank
Mohammad Ganjkhanloo	Omnium	40	24	34	10	108	4
Mehdi Sohrabi Mohammad Rajabloo	Madison					−22	6

Athlete	Horse	Event	Prix St-Georges		Intermediate I		Intermediate I Freestyle
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Technical	Artistic
Litta Soheila Sohi	Airfk	Dressage Individual	66.646	12	67.264	9	71.775	6

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-Country		Jumping Final
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Toufan Torabi	Waitangi Amazon	Eventing Individual	33.20	19	EL	–	EL	–

Athlete	Horse	Event	1st Qualification		Qualifier 1		Qualifier 2		Final - Round 1		Final - Round 2
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Davood Pourrezaei	Veneurdisigny	Individual	11.64	44	15.64	34	23.64	30	35.64	26	43.64	20
Farhang Sadeghi	Quick 'N' Step		12.74	48	20.74	43	40.74	46	Did not advance
Masoud Mokarinezhad	Cyrano D'orbri		11.26	43	28.26	52	Did not advance
Ariana Ravanbakhsh	S I E C Cros		43.85	63	51.85	59

Athletes	Horses	Event	1st Qualification		Qualifier 1		Final
			Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Mokarinezhad Pourrezaei Ravanbakhsh Sadeghi	Cyrano D'orbri Veneurdisigny S I E C Cros Quick 'N' Step	Team	35.64	13	Did not advance

Men^[23]

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Pools	Rank
Mohammad Esmaeili	Individual épée	Chantharapidok (THA) W 5–3	19 Q	Baudunov (KGZ) L 6–15	Did not advance				21
		Fong (HKG) L 3–4
		Petrov (KGZ) L 3–5
		Nguyễn (VIE) W 5–3
		Kano (JPN) L 3–5
Mohammad Rezaei	Individual épée	Al-Hammadi (UAE) W 5–4	12 Q	Alimov (UZB) L 10–15	Did not advance				18
		Dölgöön (MGL) W 5–4
		Shi (CHN) L 2–5
		Vag-Urminsky (CAM) W 5–4
		Juengamnuaychai (THA) W 5–2
		Park (KOR) L 4–5
Mojtaba Abedini Mohammad Esmaeili Amir Reza Kanaani Mohammad Rezaei	Team épée				Kyrgyzstan W 45–44	South Korea L 26–45	Did not advance		8
Mojtaba Abedini	Individual sabre	Low (HKG) L 4–5	9 Q	Bye	Xu (CHN) W 15–6	Gu (KOR) L 12–15	Did not advance		8
		Xu (CHN) L 1–5
		Vũ (VIE) W 5–2
		Putra (MAS) W 5–4
		Al-Saadi (QAT) W 5–0
Ali Pakdaman	Individual sabre	Yoshida (JPN) W 5–2	2 Q	Bye	Lam (HKG) W 15–10	Vũ (VIE) W 15–11	Oh (KOR) L 14–15	Did not advance
		Nguyễn (VIE) W 5–4
		Lam (HKG) W 5–2
		Salmanpour (QAT) W 5–0
		Setiawan (INA) W 5–3
Mojtaba Abedini Farzad Baher Ali Pakdaman Mohammad Rahbari	Team sabre				Bye	Indonesia W 45–21	China W 45–43	South Korea L 32–45

Women^[23]

Athlete	Event	Preliminaries		Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Pools	Rank
Faezeh Rafiei	Individual sabre	Yoon (KOR) L 1–5	15 Q	Qian (CHN) L 13–15	Did not advance				15
		Permatasari (INA) L 3–5
		Chhay (CAM) W 5–3
		Fukushima (JPN) L 3–5
		Thapa (NEP) W 5–0
Najmeh Sazanjian	Individual sabre	Novitha (INA) L 3–5	10 Q	Permatasari (INA) L 11–15	Did not advance				10
		Pochekutova (KAZ) W 5–2
		Kim (KOR) L 4–5
		Pokeaw (THA) W 5–1
Kiana Bagherzadeh Parimah Barzegar Faezeh Rafiei Najmeh Sazanjian	Team sabre				Bye	South Korea L 23–45	Did not advance		6

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage				Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Iran men's	Men's tournament	Saudi Arabia D 0-0	North Korea W 3-0	Myanmar L 0-2	1 Q	South Korea L 0-2	Did not advance			13

Men's tournament

Iran will join in group F at the men's football event.^[24]

Roster

The following is the Iran squad in the men's football tournament of the 2018 Asian Games. The team of 20 players was officially named on 31 July.

Head coach: Zlatko Kranjčar

No.	Pos.	Player	Date of birth (age)	Club
1	1GK	Mehdi Amini (captain)	(1996-05-16)16 May 1996 (aged 22)	Paykan
12	1GK	Shahab Adeli	(1997-01-19)19 January 1997 (aged 21)	Sepahan
2	2DF	Mohammad Aghajanpour	(1997-04-20)20 April 1997 (aged 21)	Padideh
3	2DF	Mohammad Moslemipour	(1997-05-25)25 May 1997 (aged 21)	Tractor Sazi
4	2DF	Mehdi Rahimi	(1999-05-02)2 May 1999 (aged 19)	Sepahan
5	2DF	Alireza Arta	(1997-02-04)4 February 1997 (aged 21)	Mes Kerman
18	2DF	Shahin Abbasian	(1997-06-16)16 June 1997 (aged 21)	Persepolis
20	2DF	Aref Aghasi	(1997-01-02)2 January 1997 (aged 21)	Foolad
6	3MF	Mohammad Soltani Mehr	(1999-02-04)4 February 1999 (aged 19)	Saipa
7	3MF	Younes Delfi	(2000-10-02)2 October 2000 (aged 17)	Esteghlal Khuzestan
9	3MF	Mohammad Mehdi Mehdikhani	(1997-07-28)28 July 1997 (aged 21)	Padideh
11	3MF	Mehdi Ghaedi	(1998-12-05)5 December 1998 (aged 19)	Esteghlal
13	3MF	Abolfazl Razzaghpour	(1997-09-17)17 September 1997 (aged 20)	Paykan
15	3MF	Ahmadreza Ahmadvand	(1999-02-06)6 February 1999 (aged 19)	Esteghlal
17	3MF	Sina Zamehran	(1997-03-10)10 March 1997 (aged 21)	Padideh
19	3MF	Mohammad Khodabandelou	(1999-09-07)7 September 1999 (aged 18)	Paykan
8	4FW	Mohammad Amin Asadi	(1998-12-24)24 December 1998 (aged 19)	Persepolis
10	4FW	Mohammad Reza Azadi	(1999-12-07)7 December 1999 (aged 18)	Tractor Sazi
14	4FW	Reza Jabireh	(1997-07-07)7 July 1997 (aged 21)	Sanat Naft Abadan
16	4FW	Amir Roustaei	(1997-08-05)5 August 1997 (aged 21)	Paykan

Group F

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Iran	3	1	1	1	3	2	+1	4	Advance to knockout stage
2	North Korea	3	1	1	1	4	4	0	4
3	Saudi Arabia	3	1	1	1	3	3	0	4
4	Myanmar	3	1	1	1	3	4	−1	4

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Round of 16

Men^[25]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final		Rank
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Mehdi Ahmadkohani Saeid Reza Keikha Mohammad Reza Khosronejad Saman Madani	Team	230.300	8 Q	164.250	8	8
Mehdi Ahmadkohani	Individual all-around			Did not finish		—
	Floor	Did not start		Did not advance		—
	Pommel horse	10.400	44	Did not advance		44
	Rings	14.100	14	Did not advance		14
	Parallel bars	12.400	38	Did not advance		38
	Horizontal bar	12.350	27	Did not advance		27
Saeid Reza Keikha	Individual all-around			Did not finish		—
	Floor	12.700	23	Did not advance		23
	Pommel horse	14.300	7 Q	14.775	4	4
	Rings	Did not start		Did not advance		—
	Parallel bars	Did not start		Did not advance		—
	Horizontal bar	Did not start		Did not advance		—
Mohammad Reza Khosronejad	Individual all-around			77.550	12	11
	Floor	12.850	21	Did not advance		21
	Pommel horse	12.700	19	Did not advance		19
	Rings	13.500	25	Did not advance		25
	Parallel bars	13.500	19	Did not advance		19
	Horizontal bar	12.400	26	Did not advance		26
Saman Madani	Individual all-around			74.350	21	20
	Floor	12.500	26	Did not advance		26
	Pommel horse	11.850	31	Did not advance		31
	Rings	12.700	38	Did not advance		38
	Vault	13.225	14	Did not advance		14
	Parallel bars	11.550	49	Did not advance		49
	Horizontal bar	12.200	31	Did not advance		31

Men^[26]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Main round		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group A	Rank	Group 2	Rank
Mojtaba Heidarpour Milad Masaeli Shahoo Nosrati Alireza Mousavi Mehdi Bijari Mehdi Mousavi Salaman Barbat Mohsen Babasafari Ehsan Abouei Farzad Rostami Ali Rahimi Mehrdad Samsami Jalal Kiani Afshin Sadeghi Mohammad Jomepour Amin Kazemi Coach: Zoran Kastratović	Malaysia W 55–11	2 Q	Bahrain L 23–29	3	Did not advance	5th place match  Saudi Arabia W 30–23	5
	Qatar L 20–35		Hong Kong W 46–20
			South Korea L 28–34

Men^[27]

Athlete	Event	Elimination round of 32	Elimination round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Alireza Khojasteh	66 kg	Bye	Kim (PRK) L 00–10	Did not advance			9
Mohammad Mohammadi	73 kg	Bye	Nakano (PHI) W 10–00	Rysmambetov (KGZ) W 01–00	An (KOR) L 00–10	3rd place match  Kim (PRK) W 10–00
Saeid Mollaei	81 kg	Bye	George (INA) W 10–00	Gao (CHN) W 10–00	Lee (KOR) W 11–00	Khamza (KAZ) L 01–10
Javad Mahjoub	+100 kg		Bye	Toktogonov (KGZ) W 01–00	Düürenbayar (MGL) L 00–10	3rd place match  Oltiboev (UZB) L 00–01	5

Women^[27]

Athlete	Event	Elimination round of 32	Elimination round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mobina Azizi	57 kg	Bye	Lu (CHN) L 00–10	Did not advance			9
Donya Aghaei	70 kg		Zhu (CHN) L 00–10	Did not advance			9

Men's ne-waza^[28]

Athlete	Event	1/32 final	1/16 final	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mehran Sattar	56 kg		Kuntong (THA) L 0–9	Did not advance				17
Ahmad Reza Eidi	62 kg		Ramadhan (INA) W 8–0	Agaýew (TKM) L 0–100	Did not advance			9
Amir Hossein Khademian	69 kg		Bagynbai Uulu (KGZ) L 0–0	Did not advance				17
Hamid Amraei	77 kg	Bye	Farman (KUW) W Disqualification	Al-Rasheed (JOR) L 0–2	Did not advance			9
Mohammad Mansouri Davar	77 kg	Bye	Israilov (KAZ) L 0–100	Did not advance				17
Mohsen Hamidi	85 kg		Sukandar (INA) W 0–0	Murtazaliev (KGZ) L 0–0	Did not advance			9
Habib Ranjbar	85 kg		Nemekhbayar (MGL) W 0–0	Al-Rasheed (JOR) L 0–10	Did not advance			9
Masoud Jalilvand	94 kg		Möngönbayar (MGL) W Disqualification	Granduke (JOR) L 0–100	Did not advance			9

Women's ne-waza^[28]

Athlete	Event	1/16 final	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Nahid Pirhadi	49 kg	Bye	Đào (VIE) W 2–0	Khan (CAM) L 0–100	Repechage  Al-Yafei (UAE) L 3–6	Did not advance	7
Nasim Mohammadi	62 kg	Senatham (THA) L 0–3	Did not advance				17

Men^[29]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group B	Rank
Fazel Atrachali Mohammad Esmaeil Nabibakhsh Mohammad Amin Nosrati Hadi Oshtorak Mohammad Mallak Mohammad Ghorbani Esmaeil Maghsoudloo Meisam Abbasi Mohsen Maghsoudloo Abouzar Mohajer Abolfazl Maghsoudloo Hamid Mirzaei Coach: Gholamreza Mazandarani	Japan W 55–20	1 Q	India W 27–18	South Korea W 26–16
	Pakistan W 36–20
	Malaysia W 58–24
	Nepal W 75–21
	Indonesia W 65–24

Women^[29]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group B	Rank
Ghazal Khalaj Mahboubeh Sanchouli Farideh Zarifdoust Saeideh Jafari Raheleh Naderi Roya Davoudian Samira Atarodian Fatemeh Karami Azadeh Seidi Sedigheh Jafari Zahra Karimi Zahra Abbasi Coach: Shailaja Jain	South Korea W 46–20	1 Q	Thailand W 23–16	India W 27–24
	Bangladesh W 47–19
	Chinese Taipei L 18–22

Men's kumite^[30]

Athlete	Event	1/16 final	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Amir Mehdizadeh	60 kg	Bye	Macaalay (PHI) W 6–0	Nguyễn (VIE) W 0–0	Saymatov (UZB) W 7–6	Arrosyiid (INA) L 7–9
Bahman Askari	75 kg	Wahedi (AFG) W 8–0	Khangaikhüü (MGL) W 8–0	Pongsai (THA) W 2–0	Hsu (TPE) W 0–0	Al-Turkistani (KSA) W 5–0
Zabihollah Poursheib	84 kg		Haidarov (TJK) W 8–0	Shrestha (NEP) W Disqualification	Al-Mesfer (KUW) L 5–5	3rd place match  Sajan (JOR) W 3–2
Sajjad Ganjzadeh	+84 kg		Tantish (PLE) W Walkover	Hamedi (KSA) W 4–1	Shadykanov (KGZ) W 2–1	Nguyễn (VIE) W 5–2

Women's kumite^[30]

Athlete	Event	1/8 final	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Taravat Khaksar	55 kg	Haidare (AFG) W 9–0	Sanistyarani (INA) W 1–1	Ding (CHN) W 5–1	Wen (TPE) L 0–4
Rozita Alipour	61 kg	Shin (KOR) W 5–0	Sukkiaw (THA) W 3–0	Mirzaeva (UZB) W 0–0	Yin (CHN) L 0–0
Pegah Zangeneh	68 kg	Bye	Gafurova (KAZ) L 0–0	Repechage  Annadurdieva (UZB) W 3–0	3rd place match  Nguyễn (VIE) W 10–0
Hamideh Abbasali	+68 kg		Akhmedova (UZB) W 7–0	Uekusa (JPN) L 1–2	3rd place match  Nguyễn (VIE) W 3–0

Men^[31]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Ghanbar Ali Ghanbari	66 kg	Osmonaliev (KGZ) W 110–000	Damen (KAZ) W 112–000	Dodov (TJK) W 010–003	Gaybulloev (UZB) L 000–101	Did not advance
Behzad Vahdani	66 kg	Chan (TPE) L 002–110	Did not advance				17
Elias Aliakbari	81 kg	Allaberdiýew (TKM) W 102–000	Rahman (INA) W 111–000	Gaajadamba (MGL) W 001–001	Shomurodov (UZB) W 003–001	Khojazoda (TJK) W 011–010
Omid Tiztak	81 kg	Omirow (TKM) W 111–001	Soeda (JPN) W 013–000	Mohammadi (AFG) W 012–002	Khojazoda (TJK) L 000–100	Did not advance
Ghasem Ahadi	90 kg	Imamov (UZB) L 001–101	Did not advance				17
Mohammad Malekmohammadi	90 kg	Bye	Azizi (AFG) L 010–100	Did not advance			9
Jafar Pahlevani	+90 kg	Khorkashev (TJK) W 010–000	Kumar (IND) W 100–000	Kuralov (KGZ) W 100–000	Turaev (UZB) W 010–010	Khisomiddinov (UZB) L 000–001
Mohammad Ali Zakeri	+90 kg	Sarwari (AFG) L 010–014	Did not advance				17

Women^[31]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Tahereh Azarpeivand	52 kg	Bye	Dyussembayeva (KAZ) W 010–002	Abdumajidova (UZB) L 002–011	Did not advance		5
Azar Koulivand	63 kg	Biju (IND) W 001–001	Kubasheva (KAZ) L 001–100	Did not advance			9
Zahra Naderi	63 kg	Choi (KOR) W 101–000	Shifa (INA) L 010–010	Did not advance			9
Zahra Bagheri	78 kg	Bye	Muhammedowa (TKM) W 012–000	Mönkhtsetseg (MGL) L 001–002	Did not advance		5

Men's accuracy^[32]

Athlete	Event	Round										Total	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Hossein Abbasgholizadeh	Individual	21	13	7	16	147	0	500	500	11	1	716	14
Alireza Amidi	Individual	2	155	3	76	218	469	0	500	6	90	1019	20
Hossein Abbasgholizadeh Alireza Amidi Mahmoud Shirazinia	Team	1075	1262	1240	1097	1865	1476					8015	10

Men's tanding^[33]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Hamed Havasi	60 kg	Abdullaev (UZB) W 5–0	Nguyễn (VIE) L 0–5	Did not advance		5
Mohammad Rahimi	65 kg	Kumar (NEP) W 5–0	Salimov (UZB) L 0–3	Did not advance		5
Akbar Kianian	70 kg	Bye	Jamari (MAS) L 0–5	Did not advance		5
Mohsen Ranjdoust	75 kg	Bye	Rusdana (INA) L 0–5	Did not advance		5
Babak Hashemzadeh	90 kg		Alau'ddin (SGP) L 0–5	Did not advance		5
Mohammad Mortazi	95 kg	Baratov (UZB) W 5–0	Yaacob (MAS) L 0–5	Did not advance		5

Women's tanding^[33]

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Zahra Foroughinasab	55 kg	Bye	Saiful (SGP) L 0–5	Did not advance		5
Nazanin Mirmohammadtabar	60 kg	Ajak (MAS) L 0–5	Did not advance			9
Tahmineh Karbalaei	65 kg		Kamalova (KGZ) W Walkover	Nguyễn (VIE) L 0–5	Did not advance

Men^[34]

Athlete	Event	Heat			Repechage			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mojtaba Shojaei	Single sculls	1	8:21.77	3	2	8:02.94	3 QB	7:49.36	2	8
Mohsen Shadi Aghel Habibian	Double sculls	2	7:20.77	4	1	7:12.40	3 QB	8:24.88	3	9
Siavash Saeidi Bahman Nassiri Masoud Mohammadi Mojtaba Shojaei	Quadruple sculls	2	6:22.27	1 QA				6:28.72	5	5
Mohsen Shadi	Lightweight single sculls	1	7:54.98	2	1	7:59.15	2 QA	7:22.86	5	5
Reza Ghahramani Amir Hossein Mahmoudpour	Lightweight double sculls	2	7:15.77	2	1	7:21.39	2 QA	7:18.80	5	5

Women^[34]

Athlete	Event	Heat			Repechage			Final		Rank
		Heat	Time	Rank	Heat	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Mahsa Javar	Single sculls	2	9:18.21	3	1	8:40.63	2 QA	8:52.69	6	6
Maryam Karami Parisa Ahmadi	Double sculls	1	8:07.72	3 QA				7:35.45	3
Nazanin Malaei	Lightweight single sculls	1	8:30.49	2 QA				8:19.28	2
Nazanin Rahmani Maryam Omidi Parsa	Lightweight double sculls	1	7:50.87	2 QA				7:48.38	2
Maryam Karami Mahsa Javar Nazanin Rahmani Maryam Omidi Parsa	Lightweight quadruple sculls	1	7:23.45	1 QA				7:04.38	2

Men^[35]

Athlete	Event	Race												Total	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Masoud Janinasab	Laser	14	14	12	13	14	14	14	14	12	13	12	14	146	14

Open^[35]

Athlete	Event	Race												Total	Rank
		1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12
Nima Rahbari	Laser 4.7	21	20	19	16	17	18	17	18	19	18	19	16	197	18

Men's sport^[36]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Soheil Jamalabadi	52 kg	Dzhomii (TJK) L Submission	Repechage  Akhmedjanov (UZB) L 0–1	Did not advance			13
Iraj Amirkhani	90 kg	Bye	Siswanto (INA) W 8–0	Kholmamatov (UZB) L 1–4	Repechage  Sato (JPN) W 4–0	Repechage  Zekenov (KAZ) L Submission	7

Women's sport^[36]

Athlete	Event	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Elham Bahrami	48 kg		Bye	Turgunbaeva (UZB) L Submission	Repechage  Zaripowa (TKM) L 0–1	Did not advance	9
Akram Khani	68 kg	Bye	Kadyrbekova (KGZ) L 0–1	Did not advance			13

Men^[37]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary		Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Groups	Rank
Mehrdad Jafari Omid Hassani Amir Khani Vahid Maleki Vahid Ebrahimi Abdolnaser Pangh	Quadrant	Pakistan W 2–0 21–4, 21–2	Group B 3	Did not advance		6
		Vietnam L 0–2 16–21, 24–25
		Nepal W 2–0 21–11, 21–7
		Singapore L 0–2 19–21, 16–21
Mehrdad Jafari Sina Rezaei Omid Hassani Amir Khani Mohammad Safaei Majd Vahid Maleki Vahid Ebrahimi Abdolnaser Pangh Ehsan Amanbaei Farshad Kaikani Morteza Moghaddam Hamid Reza Gerveei	Team regu	Indonesia L 0–3 0–2, 0–2, 0–2	Group B 3	Did not advance		5
		India L 1–2 1–2, 0–2, 2–0

Men^[38]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Ebrahim Barkhordari	10 m air pistol	569	25	Did not advance
Javad Foroughi	10 m air pistol	572	21	Did not advance
Amir Mohammad Nekounam	10 m air rifle	625.7	6 Q	141.4	7
Amir Siavash Zolfagharian	10 m air rifle	623.1	12	Did not advance
Pouria Norouzian	50 m rifle 3 positions	1155	12	Did not advance
Mahyar Sedaghat	50 m rifle 3 positions	1164	4 Q	406.0	6
Ali Hafezi	Trap	103	28	Did not advance
Mohammad Hossein Parvareshnia	Trap	112	23	Did not advance
Ramtin Besharati	Skeet	107	27	Did not advance
Ali Dousti	Skeet	116	21	Did not advance

Women^[38]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Amitis Jafari	10 m air pistol	568	12	Did not advance
Golnoush Sebghatollahi	10 m air pistol	571	4 Q	192.9	4
	25 m pistol	572	22	Did not advance
Hanieh Rostamian	25 m pistol	561	27	Did not advance
Elaheh Ahmadi	10 m air rifle	626.2	5 Q	141.8	7
	50 m rifle 3 positions	1163	4 Q	400.6	7
Armina Sadeghian	10 m air rifle	624.7	6 Q	206.3	4
Mahlagha Jambozorg	50 m rifle 3 positions	1162	6 Q	441.2
Shiva Farahpour	Trap	110	14	Did not advance
	Double trap			94	13
Sepideh Sirani	Trap	107	19	Did not advance

Mixed^[38]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Ebrahim Barkhordari Hanieh Rostamian	10 m air pistol team	757	9	Did not advance
Amir Mohammad Nekounam Najmeh Khedmati	10 m air rifle team	828.4	7	Did not advance
Mohammad Hossein Parvareshnia Sepideh Sirani	Trap team	128	10	Did not advance

Men^[39]

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
		Time	Rank
Mehdi Alipour