Iran at the 1966 Asian Games

Sporting event delegation

Iran at the
1966 Asian Games

IOC code| IRN
NOC| National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website| www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in Bangkok
Competitors| 118 in 12 sports
Flag bearer| Mansour Mehdizadeh
Medals
Ranked 6th|

Gold

Silver

Bronze

Total

Asian Games appearances (overview)

* 1951
* 1954
* 1958
* 1962
* 1966
* 1970
* 1974
* 1978
* 1982
* 1986
* 1990
* 1994
* 1998
* 2002
* 2006
* 2010
* 2014
* 2018
* 2022
* 2026

Iran participated in the 1966 Asian Games held in the capital city of Bangkok, and ranked sixth with six gold medals on this occasion of the Asiad.[1]

## Medal summary

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### Medal table

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Sport| Gold| Silver| Bronze| Total

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Wrestling| 3| 5| 0| 8
Weightlifting| 3| 0| 4| 7
Athletics| 0| 2| 2| 4
Football| 0| 1| 0| 1
Boxing| 0| 0| 4| 4
Cycling| 0| 0| 2| 2
Tennis| 0| 0| 2| 2
Volleyball| 0| 0| 2| 2
Table tennis| 0| 0| 1| 1
Totals (9 entries)| 6| 8| 17| 31

### Medalists

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#### Athletics

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* Silver
* Ahmad Mirhosseini \- Men's 3000 m steeplechase
* Jalal Keshmiri \- Men's discus throw
* Bronze
* Teymour Ghiassi \- Men's high jump
* Jalal Keshmiri \- Men's shot put

#### Boxing

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* Bronze
* Nasser Aghaei \- Men's 57 kg
* Eltefat Talebi \- Men's 60 kg
* Aloush Abbasi \- Men's 81 kg
* Hossein Fathianpour \- Men's +81 kg

#### Cycling

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##### Road

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* Bronze
* Team - Men's team time trial
* Team roster
* Hassan Roustaei
* Mehdi Doukchi
* Davoud Akhlaghi
* Esmaeil Hosseini

##### Track

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* Bronze
* Esmaeil Hosseini \- Men's individual pursuit

#### Football

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* Silver
* Team \- Men
* Team roster
* Aziz Asli
* Faramarz Zelli
* Parviz Ghelichkhani
* Hassan Habibi
* Hamid Jasemian
* Goudarz Habibi
* Mohammad Ranjbar
* Jalal Talebi
* Mostafa Arab
* Hossein Farzami
* Ali Jabbari
* Hamid Aminikhah
* Akbar Eftekhari
* Abdollah Saedi
* Fariborz Esmaeili
* Hamid Shirzadeghan
* Homayoun Behzadi
* Parviz Mirzahassan
* Head coach: Gyorgy Szucs

#### Table tennis

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* Bronze
* Houshang Bozorgzadeh \- Men's singles

#### Tennis

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* Bronze
* Taghi Akbari \- Men's singles
* Team - Men's team
* Team roster
* Taghi Akbari
* Ezzatollah Nemati
* Nematollah Nemati
* Issa Khodaei

#### Volleyball

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##### Indoor

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* Bronze
* Team \- Men
* Team roster
* Mahmoud Motlagh
* Hassan Kord
* Masoud Salehieh
* Khalil Paknazar
* Changiz Ansari
* Hassan Kabiri
* Mohammad Hemmatyar
* Mojtaba Mortazavi
* Head coach: Hossein Jabbarzadegan
* Team \- Women
* Team roster
* Mari Tet
* Rouhi Pandnavaz
* Mehri Kharrazi
* Ozra Malek
* Mina Fathi
* Nasrin Shokoufi
* Leila Emami
* Pari Fardi
* Jaleh Seyed-Hadizadeh
* Head coach: Fereydoon Sharifzadeh

#### Weightlifting

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* Gold
* Mohammad Nassiri \- Men's 56 kg
* Parviz Jalayer \- Men's 67.5 kg
* Manouchehr Boroumand \- Men's +90 kg
* Bronze
* Mohammadreza Nasehi \- Men's 52 kg
* Mohammad Ammi Tehrani \- Men's 75 kg
* Naser Doroudian \- Men's 90 kg
* Reza Esteki \- Men's +90 kg

#### Wrestling

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##### Freestyle

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* Gold
* Abdollah Movahed \- Men's 70 kg
* Mansour Mehdizadeh \- Men's 97 kg
* Eskandar Filabi \- Men's +97 kg
* Silver
* Ali Akbar Heidari \- Men's 52 kg
* Mohammad Ali Farrokhian \- Men's 57 kg
* Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour \- Men's 63 kg
* Hossein Tahami \- Men's 78 kg
* Mahmoud Moezzipour \- Men's 87 kg

## References

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1. ^ 5th Asian Games medal tally  Archived 2007-02-10 at the Wayback Machine

* (in Persian) Iran Olympic Committee - Asian Games Medalists
* (in Persian) Iran National Sports Organization - Asian Games Medalists

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* Iran
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