Iran at the 1958 Asian Games

Iran at the
1958 Asian Games
Iran at the; 1958 Asian Games
IOC code	IRN
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in Tokyo
Competitors	79 in 11 sports
Flag bearer	Mahmoud Namjoo
Medals ; Ranked 4th	Gold7Silver14Bronze11Total32
Asian Games appearances (overview)
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Last updated December 05, 2025

Iran participated in the 1958 Asian Games held in the capital city of Tokyo, Japan. This country is ranked 4th with 7 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.^[1]

Competitors

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Aquatics, Diving	2		2
Aquatics, Swimming	3		3
Athletics	8	2	10
Boxing	9		9
Cycling, Road / Track	1		1
Football	17		17
Shooting	3		3
Table tennis	4	2	6
Tennis	4		4
Volleyball	8		8
Weightlifting	8		8
Wrestling	8		8
Total	75	4	79

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Diving	0	0	2	2
Athletics	1	1	2	4
Boxing	0	3	3	6
Cycling, Track	0	2	0	2
Table tennis	0	0	1	1
Volleyball	0	1	0	1
Weightlifting	3	4	1	8
Wrestling	3	3	2	8
Total	7	14	11	32

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Mahmoud Khaligh Razavi	Athletics	Men's 1500 m
Gold	Jalal Mansouri	Weightlifting	Men's 82.5 kg
Gold	Hassan Rahnavardi	Weightlifting	Men's 90 kg
Gold	Firouz Pojhan	Weightlifting	Men's +90 kg
Gold	Emam-Ali Habibi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 67 kg
Gold	Gholamreza Takhti	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 87 kg
Gold	Abbas Zandi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle +87 kg
Silver	Mahmoud Khaligh Razavi	Athletics	Men's 800 m
Silver	Vazik Kazarian	Boxing	Men's 63.5 kg
Silver	Soren Pirjanian	Boxing	Men's 67 kg
Silver	Ghasem Amiryavari	Boxing	Men's 71 kg
Silver	Jafar Goltalab	Cycling, Track	Men's sprint
Silver	Jafar Goltalab	Cycling, Track	Men's 1 km time trial
Silver	Abdolmonem Kamal Siavash Farrokhi Mahmoud Adl Mohammad Sharifzadeh Hossein Ali Amiri Esmaeil Ashtari Abbas Tehrani Kamal Pourhashemi	Volleyball	Men
Silver	Esmaeil Elmkhah	Weightlifting	Men's 52 kg
Silver	Mahmoud Namjoo	Weightlifting	Men's 56 kg
Silver	Ali Safa-Sonboli	Weightlifting	Men's 60 kg
Silver	Ebrahim Peiravi	Weightlifting	Men's 75 kg
Silver	Khalil Rayatpanah	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg
Silver	Tofigh Jahanbakht	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 73 kg
Silver	Nabi Sorouri	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 79 kg
Bronze	Manouchehr Fasihi	Aquatics, Diving	Men's 3 m springboard
Bronze	Hassan Azami	Aquatics, Diving	Men's 10 m platform
Bronze	Ali Baghbanbashi	Athletics	Men's 5000 m
Bronze	Ali Baghbanbashi	Athletics	Men's 10,000 m
Bronze	Ezaria Ilkhanoff	Boxing	Men's 51 kg
Bronze	Leon Khachatourian	Boxing	Men's 75 kg
Bronze	Akbar Khojini	Boxing	Men's 81 kg
Bronze	Edmond Beitkhoda Houshang Bozorgzadeh Amir Ehteshamzadeh Hamid Korloo	Table tennis	Men's team
Bronze	Henrik Tamraz	Weightlifting	Men's 67.5 kg
Bronze	Gholam Hossein Zandi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg
Bronze	Nasser Givehchi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg

Results by event

Aquatics

Diving

Swimming

Athletics

Boxing

This was the first time Iranian boxers were participating in an official Asian tournament, such as the Asian Games, with 9 boxers, the most boxers after the Japanese boxing team. In the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, the Iranian boxing team managed to bag a total of 6 medals, including three silver medals, three bronze medals, and also obtained three fifth places.^[2] The consequence of this participation resulted in Iran's boxing team to rank second, considering medal counts, and fifth, in the overall boxing table, helping Iran Sports Convoy to rank fourth, overall in the Third Asian Games, which was applauded by the Iranian officials.^[3]

The Iranian national boxing team, which consisted of boxers from Tehran Taj club and Tehran Jafari club, was coached by Petros Nazarbegian,^[4]^[5] and the team members were: Ezaria Ilkhanoff (Persian: ایزاریا ایلخانوف) in the Flyweight division (bronze medal),^[6] Karapet Kochar (Persian: کاراپت کوچار) in the Bantamweight division (fifth place), Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh (Persian: صادق علی اکبرزاده) in the Featherweight division (fifth place),^[7] Hassan Pakandam (Persian: حسن پاک اندام) in the Lightweight division (fifth place),^[8] Vazik Kazarian (Persian: وازیک قازاریان) in the Light-Welterweight division (silver medal),^[9] Soren Pirjanian (Persian: سورن پیرجانیان) in the Welterweight division (silver medal),^[10] Ghasem Amiryavari (captain) (Persian: امیر یاوری) in the Light-middleweight division (silver medal),^[11] Leon Khachatourian (Persian: لئون خاچاطوریان) in the Middleweight division (bronze medal),^[12] Akbar Khojini (Persian: اکبرخوجینی) in the Light heavyweight division (bronze medal), (no participant in the Heavyweight division).^[13]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Ezaria Ilkhanoff	51 kg		Bonus (PHI) W Points	Hla (BIR) L Points	Did not advance
Karapet Kochar	54 kg	Bye	Suzuki (JPN) L Points	Did not advance		5
Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh	57 kg	Bye	Ikeyama (JPN) L Points	Did not advance		5
Hassan Pakandam	60 kg		Chung (KOR) L Points	Did not advance		5
Vazik Kazarian	63.5 kg		Bye	Chundakowsolaya (THA) W Points	Kawakami (JPN) L Points
Soren Pirjanian	67 kg		David (PHI) W Points	Onuki (JPN) W Points	Kim (KOR) L Points
Ghasem Amiryavari	71 kg		Bye	Hussain (PAK) W Points	Takahashi (JPN) L Points
Leon Khachatourian	75 kg			Thapa (IND) L Points	Did not advance
Akbar Khojini	81 kg			Mahmood (PAK) L Points	Did not advance

Cycling

Road

Men

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Jafar Goltalab	Road race	Did not finish

Football

Men

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad list	Group D	Rank	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Nader Afshar Alavinejad Davoud Arghavani Mahmoud Bayati Mohammad Bayati Javad Beheshti Masoud Boroumand Parviz Dehdari Amir Eraghi Iraj Erfan Aref Gholizadeh Nasser Haji Mokhtar Mohsen Haji Nasrollah Iraj Hatam Davoud Heidari Ali Jafarzadeh Parviz Kouzehkanani Jafar Namdar Coach: Hossein Sadaghiani	Israel L 0–4	4	Did not advance			14
	South Korea L 0–5	4	Did not advance			14

Shooting

Table tennis

Tennis

Men

Athlete	Event	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	Rank
George Aftandilian	Singles	Bye	Pinto (CEY) L 0–2 2–6, 2–6	Did not advance	17
Enoud Jasemzadeh	Singles	Ishiguro (JPN) L 0–2 0–6, 2–6	Did not advance		33
Henry Johanes	Singles	Dungo (PHI) L 0–2 1–6, 2–6	Did not advance		33
Arsham Yasaei	Singles	Bye	Tsai (HKG) L 1–2 9–7, 2–6, 1–6	Did not advance	17
George Aftandilian Enoud Jasemzadeh	Doubles		Lim (SIN) Pakir (SIN) L 1–2 9–7, 4–6, 0–6	Did not advance	17
Henry Johanes Arsham Yasaei	Doubles		Võ (VNM) Võ (VNM) L 1–2 9–7, 4–6, 2–6	Did not advance	17

Volleyball

Weightlifting

Athlete	Event	Press	Snatch	Clean & jerk	Total
Esmaeil Elmkhah	Men's 52 kg	87.5	85.0	105.0	277.5
Mahmoud Namjoo	Men's 56 kg	100.0	95.0	120.0	315.0
Ali Safa-Sonboli	Men's 60 kg	107.5	102.5	132.5	342.5
Henrik Tamraz	Men's 67.5 kg	112.5	112.5	145.0	370.0
Ebrahim Peiravi	Men's 75 kg	115.0	117.5	147.5	380.0
Jalal Mansouri	Men's 82.5 kg	127.5	122.5	150.0	400.0
Hassan Rahnavardi	Men's 90 kg	140.0	127.5	165.0	432.5
Firouz Pojhan	Men's +90 kg	152.5	132.5	175.0	460.0

Wrestling

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	First round	Second round	Third round	Final round
Khalil Rayatpanah	52 kg	Bye	Alcantara (PHI) W Fall	Yoshida (JPN) L Points	Din (PAK) W Points
Gholam Hossein Zandi	57 kg	Im (KOR) W Points	Iizuka (JPN) D Points	Tumasis (PHI) W Fall	Akhtar (PAK) L Points
Nasser Givehchi	62 kg	Perez (PHI) W Fall	Din (PAK) D Points	Nakagawa (JPN) L Points	Bye
Emam-Ali Habibi	67 kg	Ashraf (PAK) W Fall	Bong (KOR) W Points	Abe (JPN) W Points	Bye
Tofigh Jahanbakht	73 kg	Choi (KOR) W Fall	Kaneko (JPN) D Points	Bye	Bashir (PAK) W Points
Nabi Sorouri	79 kg	Nagai (JPN) D Points	Rahim (AFG) W Fall	Rasool (PAK) W Points	Arcales (PHI) W Fall
Gholamreza Takhti	87 kg	Naseri (AFG) W Fall	Hwang (KOR) W Fall	Ali (PAK) W Fall	Takagi (JPN) W Fall
Abbas Zandi	+87 kg	Ohira (JPN) W Points	Nazir (PAK) D Points	Bye

References

↑ 3rd Asian Games medal tally Archived 2007-02-10 at the Wayback Machine
↑ http://vista.ir/article/278400("Iranian Boxing in the Asian Games", Vista News Hub, The Online Source for the Most Important Iranian News Headlines)(Persian)
↑ http://www.ghahremanan.ir/d.asp?id=25398("Iranian Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Sport Convoy Shines in the 1958 Asian Games", Official Web-site for Iranian Sports Retired Champions, Days in History, June 16, 1958)(Persian)
↑ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2014-04-23 at the Wayback Machine
↑ کتاب تاریخچه بوکس ایران از 1324 تا 1357، جلد اول، ناشر: بامداد کتاب، نویسنده محمود مساعدیان، چاپ اول، 1388، شابک 9789642060337، تعداد صفحه 430 (History of Boxing in Iran from 1945 to 1979, First Volume, First Edition, By: Bamdad Ketaab, Author: Mahmood Mosaadian, 2009, ISBN 9789642060337,430 pages)(Persian)
↑ www.sports-reference.com SR/OLYMPIC SPORTS Archived 2016-12-03 at the Wayback Machine
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↑ "3.Asian Games - Tokyo, Japan - May 28-31 1958".

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

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[1] 3rd Asian Games medal tally Archived 2007-02-10 at the Wayback Machine

[2] ttp://vista.ir/article/278400("Iranian Boxing in the Asian Games", Vista News Hub, The Online Source for the Most Important Iranian News Headlines)(Persian)

[3] ttp://www.ghahremanan.ir/d.asp?id=25398("Iranian Archived 2015-02-14 at the Wayback Machine Sport Convoy Shines in the 1958 Asian Games", Official Web-site for Iranian Sports Retired Champions, Days in History, June 16, 1958)(Persian)

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[5] کتاب تاریخچه بوکس ایران از 1324 تا 1357، جلد اول، ناشر: بامداد کتاب، نویسنده محمود مساعدیان، چاپ اول، 1388، شابک 9789642060337، تعداد صفحه 430 (History of Boxing in Iran from 1945 to 1979, First Volume, First Edition, By: Bamdad Ketaab, Author: Mahmood Mosaadian, 2009, ISBN 9789642060337,430 pages)(Persian)

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