Iran at the 1960 Summer Olympics

Infobox Olympics Iran
games=1960 Summer
competitors=25
sports=5
flagbearer=Mohammad Jafar Salmassi
gold=0
silver=1
bronze=3
total=4
rank=27

Iran competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy.

Medalists

Silver

*Gholamreza Takhti - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 87 kg

Bronze

* Esmaeil Elmkhah - Weightlifting, Men's 56 kg
* Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour - Wrestling, Men's freestyle 52 kg
* Mohammad Paziraei - Wrestling, Men's greco-roman 52 kg

Results by event

=Athletics=

Men's hop, step and jump:
*Rouhollah Rahmani - 30th place
*# Qualification - 14.70 m, Did not advance

=Boxing=

Men's 51 kg:
*Ezrael Illkhanouf - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Defeated James Badrian of Rhodesia, 4-1
*# 1/8 final - Lost to Miguel Angel Botta of Argentina, Walkover

Men's 54 kg:
*Sadegh Akbarzadeh - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Lost to Muhamad Nasir of Pakistan, 2-1

Men's 63.5 kg:
*Varzik Kazarian - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Lost to Bobby Kelsey of Great Britain, 2-1

Men's 67 kg:
*Ghasem Yavarkandi - Eliminated
*# 1/32 final - Bye
*# 1/16 final - Defeated Alfredo Cornejo of Chile, 3-2
*# 1/8 final - Lost to Leszek Drogosz of Poland, 5-0

=Shooting=

Men's small bore rifle 3 positions:
*Gholam Hossein Mobaser - 71st place
*# Elimination - 471 points, Did not advance

Men's small bore rifle prone positions:
*Gholam Hossein Mobaser - 50th place
*# Elimination - 33rd place, 384 points
*# Final - 567 points

=Weightlifting=

Men's 56 kg:
*Esmaeil Elmkhah - Bronze medal, 330 kg

Men's 60 kg:
*Ali Safa Sonboli - No mark

Men's 67.5 kg:
*Henrik Tamraz - 14th place, 347.5 kg

Men's 75 kg:
*Mohammad Ami Tehrani - 6th place, 392.5 kg
*Ebrahim Peyravi - Did not start

Men's 82.5 kg:
*Amir Mangashti Amiri - 14th place, 390 kg

Men's 90 kg:
*Manouchehr Boroumand - Did not start

=Wrestling=

Freestyle

Men's 52 kg:
* Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour - Bronze medal
*# 1st round - Defeated Dieter Groning of Australia by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Vaino Rantala of Finland by fall, 0 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Leslaw Krop of Poland by fall, 0 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Andre Zoete of France by fall, 0 pen
*# 5th round - Defeated Ali Aliev of Soviet Union by fall, 0 pen
*# 6th round - Lost to Ahmet Bilek of Turkey by points, 3 pen
*# 7th round - Lost to Masayuki Matsubara of Japan by points, 6 pen, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:
* Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi - 7th place
*# 1st round - Drew with Huseyin Akbas of Turkey, 2 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Vittorio Mancini of San Marino by fall, 2 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Im Kwang-Jae of South Korea by points, 3 pen
*# 4th round - Lost to Tadashi Asai of Japan by points, 6 pen, Eliminated

Men's 62 kg:
* Mohammad Khadem - 8th place
*# 1st round - Lost to Vladimir Rubashvili of Soviet Union by fall, 4 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Lou Giani of United States by points, 5 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Kang Chung-Ho of South Korea by fall, 5 pen
*# 4th round - Lost to Tamiji Sato of Japan by fall, 9 pen, Eliminated

Men's 67 kg:
* Mostafa Tajik - 4th place
*# 1st round - Defeated Muhammad Din of Pakistan by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Hayrullah Sahin of Turkey by points, 1 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Amin Nazem of Lebanon by fall, 1 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Anthony Ries of South Africa by fall, 1 pen
*# 5th round - Lost to Enyu Valchev of Bulgaria by fall, 5 pen
*# 5th round - Lost to Shelby Wilson of United States by points, 8 pen, Eliminated

Men's 73 kg:
* Imam-Ali Habibi - 4th place
*# 1st round - Defeated Choi Myong-Jong of South Korea by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Ake Carlsson of Sweden by points, 1 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Muhammad Bashir of Pakistan by points, 2 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Gaetano De Vescovi of Italy by points, 3 pen
*# 5th round - Lost to Douglas Blubaugh of United States by fall, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 79 kg:
* Mansour Mehdizadeh - 12th place
*# 1st round - Lost to Fredrick Thomas of New Zealand by fall, 4 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Hans Antonsson of Sweden by points, 5 pen
*# 3rd round - Drew with Hasan Güngör of Turkey, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 87 kg:
* Gholamreza Takhti - Silver medal
*# 1st round - Defeated Mohiddin Gunga Ghulam of Afghanistan by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Patrick Parsons of Australia by fall, 0 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Kazuo Abe of Japan by fall, 0 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Gyoergy Gurics of Hungary by fall, 0 pen
*# 5th round - Defeated Hermanus Van Zyl of South Africa by fall, 0 pen
*# Final round - Lost to Ismet Atli of Turkey by points

Men's +87 kg:
* Yaghoub Shourvarzi - 10th place
*# 1st round - Defeated Max Ordman of South Africa by fall, 0 pen
*# 2nd round - Lost to Savkuds Dzarasov of Soviet Union by fall, 4 pen
*# 3rd round - Lost to Wilfried Dietrich of United Team of Germany by fall, 8 pen, Eliminated

Greco-Roman

Men's 52 kg:
* Mohammad Paziraei - Bronze medal
*# 1st round - Defeated Maurice Mewis of Belgium by points, 1 pen
*# 2nd round - Lost to Osman Sayed of United Arab Republic by points, 4 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Stefan Hajduk of Poland by points, 5 pen
*# 4th round - Bye
*# 5th round - Defeated Ivan Kochergin of Soviet Union by points, 6 pen, Eliminated

Men's 57 kg:
* Ali Bani-Hashemi - 17th place
*# 1st round - Lost to Jiri Svec of Czechoslovakia by points, 3 pen
*# 2nd round - Lost to Stipan Dora of Yugoslavia by points, 6 pen, Eliminated

Men's 62 kg:
* Hossein Mollaghasemi Ebrahimian - 6th place
*# 1st round - Defeated Rauno Makinen of Finland by points, 1 pen
*# 2nd round - Defeated Jose Gregorio of Portugal by fall, 1 pen
*# 3rd round - Defeated Lee Allen of United States by points, 2 pen
*# 4th round - Defeated Mihai Sult of Romania by points, 3 pen
*# 5th round - Lost to Konstantin Vyrupayev of Soviet Union by fall, 7 pen, Eliminated

Men's 79 kg:
* Manouchehr Khoddam Hazrati - 14th place
*# 1st round - Drew with Pentti Punkari of Finland, 2 pen
*# 2nd round - Lost to Jiri Kormanik of Czechoslovakia by points, 5 pen
*# 3rd round - Lost to Kazim Ayvaz of Turkey by points, 8 pen, Eliminated

References

* [http://www.aafla.org/5va/reports_frmst.htm Official Olympic Reports]
* [http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp International Olympic Committee results database]