Iran at the 1982 Asian Games

Iran at the 1982 Asian Games
IOC code	IRN
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in New Delhi
Competitors	43 in 4 sports
Flag bearer	Reza Soukhtehsaraei
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 4 Silver 4 Bronze 4 Total 12
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 1982 Asian Games held in the capital city of New Delhi. This country is ranked 7th with only 4 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Wrestling	3	2	2	7
Weightlifting	1	2	0	3
Cycling	0	0	2	2
Totals (3 entries)	4	4	4	12

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Ali Pakizehjam	Weightlifting	Men's 75 kg
Gold	Mohammad Hossein Mohebbi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg
Gold	Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 90 kg
Gold	Reza Soukhtehsaraei	Wrestling	Men's freestyle +100 kg
Silver	Mehran Eslampour	Weightlifting	Men's 90 kg
Silver	Ali Vadi	Weightlifting	Men's +110 kg
Silver	Mohammad Hossein Dabbaghi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg
Silver	Askari Mohammadian	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg
Bronze	Ali Zangi-Abadi	Cycling (Road)	Men's road race
Bronze	Ali Zangi-Abadi Abolfazl Khandagh Mohammad Ali Mohammadi Mehrdad Afsharian	Cycling (Road)	Men's team time trial
Bronze	Ahmad Rezaei	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg
Bronze	Mahmoud Moradi Ganji	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 100 kg

Results by event

Cycling

Main article: Cycling at the 1982 Asian Games

Football

Main article: Football at the 1982 Asian Games

Men

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group D	Rank
Behrouz Soltani Mohammad Dadkan Amir Marzoughi Mehdi Dinvarzadeh Mohammad Panjali Mohammad Mayeli Kohan Zia Arabshahi Abbas Kargar Hamid Derakhshan Nasser Mohammadkhani Reza Ahadi Mohammad Naderi Bijan Taheri Amir Hossein Shahzeidi Mahmoud Haghighian Alireza Firouzi Coach: Jalal Cheraghpour	Japan L 0–1	2 Q	Kuwait L 0–1	Did not advance		5
	South Yemen W 2–0
	South Korea W 1–0

Weightlifting

Main article: Weightlifting at the 1982 Asian Games

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
Shahram Yousefi	67.5 kg	130.0	165.0	295.0	5
Ali Pakizehjam	75 kg	155.0	185.0	340.0
Bijan Rezaei	82.5 kg	147.5	180.0	327.5	6
Ardeshir Shamsi	82.5 kg	140.0	187.5	327.5	4
Mehran Eslampour	90 kg	150.0	185.0	335.0
Ali Moradi	90 kg	145.0	182.5	327.5	4
Azar Majidi	100 kg	No mark	187.5	—	—
Amir Hossein Pourrezaei	110 kg	150.0	No mark	—	—
Taghi Rouhani	110 kg	145.0	185.0	330.0	4
Ali Vadi	+110 kg	155.0	200.0	355.0

Wrestling

Main article: Wrestling at the 1982 Asian Games

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Rank
Majid Torkan	48 kg	4
Mohammad Hossein Dabbaghi	52 kg
Askari Mohammadian	57 kg
Ahmad Rezaei	62 kg
Hassan Hamidi	68 kg	5
Mohammad Hossein Mohebbi	74 kg
Mahmoud Kadkhodaei	82 kg	EL
Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi	90 kg
Mahmoud Moradi Ganji	100 kg
Reza Soukhtehsaraei	+100 kg

References

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