Iran at the 2024 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | IRI |
NOC | National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran |
Website | www |
in Paris, France 26 July 2024 – 11 August 2024 | |
Competitors | 36 in 11 sports |
Flag bearers (opening) | Mahdi Olfati Neda Shahsavari |
Flag bearer (closing) | Fatemeh Mojallal |
Medals |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
Iran (officially called the Islamic Republic of Iran) is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. Since the nation's debut in 1948, Iranian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except for Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984, citing political reasons.
In the Refugee Olympic Team at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 14 of the 36 athletes are Iranian. [1]
There have been calls to ban Iran from the 2024 Summer Olympics due to human rights allegations. Senator Marsha Blackburn petitioned IOC President Thomas Bach to ban them from the Paris Games. [2] The IOC expressed serious concerns over the situation of the Iranian athletes and urged the Iranian Olympic Committee to take appropriate action with the highest authorities to protect the athletes and members of the Olympic community from a humanitarian perspective. The IOC said that it reserves the right to take any appropriate action relating to the participation of the Iranian NOC and athletes in regarding the 2024 Summer Olympics. [3] [4]
The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Archery | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Canoeing | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Cycling | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Fencing | 4 | 0 | 4 |
Gymnastics | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Rowing | 0 | 3 | 3 |
Shooting | 1 | 3 | 4 |
Table tennis | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Taekwondo | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Weightlifting | 2 | 0 | 2 |
Wrestling | 11 | 0 | 11 |
Total | 26 | 10 | 36 |
One Iranian archer qualified for the women's individual recurve through the 2024 Final Individual Qualification Tournament in Antalya, Turkey.
Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||
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Score | Seed | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Mobina Fallah | Women's individual |
Iranian canoeists qualified one boat for the Games through the result of highest rank eligible nation's in the following events, through the 2024 Asian Sprint Canoeing Championships in Tokyo, Japan.
Athlete | Event | Heats | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Mohammad Nabi Rezaei | Men's C-1 1000 m | ||||||||
Ali Aghamirzaei | Men's K-1 1000 m |
Qualification Legend: FA = Qualify to final (medal); FB = Qualify to final B (non-medal)
Iran entered one male rider to compete in the road race events at the Olympic. The nation's secured those quota through the 2023 Asian Championships in Rayong, Thailand. [5]
Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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Ali Labib | Men's road race |
Iran entered four fencers into the Olympic competition. The nation's men's sabre team secured a quota places in men's sabre events, after nominated as one the highest nations, from Asia & Oceania, through the release of the FIE Official ranking for Paris 2024.
Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Men's sabre | ||||||||
* | Men's team sabre |
Iran entered one gymnasts into the games. Mahdi Olfati directly secured his quota to compete at the Olympics by being one of the highest-ranked eligible athlete in the men's vault, through the final accumulations of the 2024 Apparatus World Cup Series rankings.
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||||||
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Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||
F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | ||||||
Mahdi Olfati | All-around |
Iranian rowers qualified two boats for the following events, through the 2024 Asia & Oceania Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea. [6]
Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Semifinals | Final | ||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Fatemeh Mojallal | Women's single sculls | ||||||||
Mahsa Javar Zeinab Norouzi | Women's lightweight double sculls |
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Iranian shooters achieved quota places for the following events based on their results at the 2022 and 2023 ISSF World Championships, 2023 and 2024 Asian Championships, and 2024 ISSF World Olympic Qualification Tournament. [7]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Mohammed Beiranvand | Men's trap | ||||||
Shermineh Chehel Amirani | Women's 10 m air rifle | ||||||
Fatemeh Amini | |||||||
Hanieh Rostamian | Women's 25 m pistol |
Iran entered two table tennis players into Paris 2024. Nima Alamian and Neda Shahsavari qualified for the games, following the triumph of winning the gold medals, respectively in men's and women's singles event, at the 2024 Central Asian Qualification Tournament in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [8]
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Noshad Alamian | Men's singles | |||||||||
Nima Alamian | Men's singles | |||||||||
Neda Shahsavari | Women's singles |
Iran qualified four athletes to compete at the games. Nahid Kiani qualified for Paris 2024 by virtue of finishing within the top five in the Olympic rankings in her respective division, meanwhile Mehran Barkhordari qualified the games by virtue of finishing first at the Grand Slam Series rankings. [9] Later on Mobina Nematzadeh and Arian Salimi secured a quota places in their respective division, by virtue of their victory in the semifinal round, at the 2024 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Tai'an, China. [10]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Mehran Barkhordari | Men's −80 kg | |||||||
Arian Salimi | Men's +80 kg | |||||||
Mobina Nematzadeh | Women's –49 kg | |||||||
Nahid Kiani | Women's –57 kg |
Iran entered two weightlifters into the Olympic competition. Mirmostafa Javadi (men's 89 kg) and Ali Davoudi (men's +102 kg) secured one of the top ten slots, in their respective weight division based on the IWF Olympic Qualification Rankings. [11] [12]
Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | Rank | ||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
Mirmostafa Javadi | Men's −89 kg | ||||||
Ali Davoudi | Men's +102 kg |
Iran qualified nine wrestlers for each of the following classes into the Olympic competition. Seven of them qualified by virtue of top five results through the 2023 World Championships in Belgrade, Serbia; [13] [14] meanwhile two of them qualified after winning the semifinak round at the 2024 Asian Olympic Qualification Tournament in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Key:
Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Rahman Amouzad | Men's −65 kg | ||||||
Younes Emami | Men's –74 kg | ||||||
Hassan Yazdani | Men's −86 kg | ||||||
Amir Ali Azarpira | Men's −97 kg | ||||||
Amir Hossein Zare | Men's −125 kg |
Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Mehdi Mohsennejad | Men's −60 kg | ||||||
Saeid Esmaeili | Men's −67 kg | ||||||
Amin Kavianinejad | Men's −77 kg | ||||||
Alireza Mohmadi | Men's −87 kg | ||||||
Mohammad Hadi Saravi | Men's −97 kg | ||||||
Amin Mirzazadeh | Men's −130 kg |
Uzbekistan competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was the nation's seventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics in the post-Soviet era.
Iran competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place during the summer of 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's debut in 1948, Iranian athletes have attended every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 which they boycotted.
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