| Iran at the 1974 Asian Games | |
|---|---|
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| IOC code | IRN |
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of Iran |
| Website | www |
| in Tehran | |
| Competitors | 314 in 16 sports |
| Flag bearer | Moslem Eskandar-Filabi |
| Medals Ranked 2nd |
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| Asian Games appearances (overview) | |
Iran participated in the 1974 Asian Games as a host, and was ranked 2nd with 36 gold medals at this Asiad. [1]
| Sport | Men | Women | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatics, Diving | X | X | X |
| Aquatics, Swimming | X | X | X |
| Aquatics, Water polo | 11 | 11 | |
| Athletics | X | X | X |
| Badminton | 4 | 4 | 8 |
| Basketball | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| Boxing | 11 | 11 | |
| Cycling, Road | X | X | |
| Cycling, Track | X | X | |
| Fencing | 12 | 5 | 17 |
| Field hockey | 18 | 18 | |
| Football | 20 | 20 | |
| Gymnastics | 6 | 6 | 12 |
| Shooting | X | X | |
| Table tennis | 5 | 4 | 9 |
| Tennis | 4 | 2 | 6 |
| Volleyball | 12 | 12 | 24 |
| Weightlifting | 9 | 9 | |
| Wrestling | 19 | 19 | |
| Total | X | X | X |
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aquatics, Water polo | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Athletics | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8 |
| Boxing | 3 | 2 | 5 | 10 |
| Cycling, Road | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| Cycling, Track | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Fencing | 3 | 4 | 3 | 10 |
| Football | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tennis | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Weightlifting | 10 | 11 | 3 | 24 |
| Wrestling | 13 | 5 | 1 | 19 |
| Total | 36 | 28 | 17 | 81 |
| Squad list | Round 1 / 4 | Round 2 / 5 | Round 3 / 6 | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Firouz Abdolmohammadian Jahangir Tavakkoli Heidar Shonjani Ahmad Peidayesh Dariush Movahedi Bahram Tavakkoli Reza Kamrani Morteza Shariat Hossein Nasim Abdolreza Majdpour Ahmad Yaghouti Coach:  Angelescu |  India W18–6 |  Japan D 6–6 |  North Korea W9–5 |  |
 China D 5–5 |  Kuwait W32–1 |  Singapore W9–1 |
| Athlete | Event | 1st round | 2nd round | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sirous Aflatoun | Singles | Bye |  Hou (CHN)L 0–2 4–15, 3–15 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Dariush Foroughi | Singles |  Yang (HKG)L 0–2 2–15, 7–15 | Did not advance | 17 | |||
| Sirous Aflatoun Dariush Foroughi | Doubles | Bye |  Khanna (IND) Ghosh (IND)W Walkover |  Tjun (INA) Wahjudi (INA)L 0–2 0–15, 2–15 | Did not advance | 5 | |
| Mohsen Sheida Sadra Shoushtari | Doubles | Hauw (HKG) Wong (HKG) W Walkover | Tang (CHN) Chen (CHN) L 0–2 5–15, 6–15 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Dariush Foroughi Sirous Aflatoun Mohsen Sheida Sadra Shoushtari | Team | Bye | Indonesia L 0–5 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2 | 5th–8th places Hong Kong L 0–3 0–2, 0–2, 0–2 | 7th place match Philippines L 0–3 0–2, 0–2, 0–2 | 8 | |
| Athlete | Event | 1st round | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mina Pourghobadi | Singles |  Oh (KOR)L 0–2 0–11, 0–11 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Rafat Yazdanparast | Singles |  Bak (PRK)L 0–2 0–11, 0–11 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Houri Farshidian Mina Pourghobadi | Doubles | Liang (CHN) Cheng (CHN) L 0–2 1–15, 2–15 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Behnaz Nourazar Rafat Yazdanparast | Doubles |  Ng (MAS) Ang (MAS)L 0–2 1–15, 1–15 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Rafat Yazdanparast Mina Pourghobadi Behnaz Nourazar Houri Farshidian | Team | Indonesia L 0–5 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2, 0–2 | Did not advance | 5 | ||
| Athlete | Event | 1st round | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mohsen Sheida Mina Pourghobadi | Doubles |  Sakuntaniyom (THA) Kingmanee (THA)L 0–2 1–15, 1–15 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Sadra Shoushtari Houri Farshidian | Doubles | Soong (MAS) Ng (MAS) L 0–2 1–15, 2–15 | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Squad list | Preliminary round | Second round | Semifinal | Final | Rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group D | Rank | Group A | Rank | ||||
| Nader Kashani Reza Esmaeili Jafar Gharehkhani Nosratollah Iliavi Rasoul Javadi Abbas Heidari Reza Mashhoun Mohsen Khalkhali Mozaffar Banihashemi Amir Saboktakin Salim Shibeh Nasser Biglari Coach: George Chiraleu |  Bahrain W128–62 | 1 Q |  Philippines L 91–93 | 4 | 5th–8th places Japan W89–86 | 5th place match North Korea L 74–75 | 6 |
 Pakistan W97–86 | North Korea L 65–86 | ||||||
| China L 78–94 | |||||||
| Squad list | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Farzaneh Nourbakhsh Zohreh Shahmaei Mahin Kourehchian Maro Avanesian Ailin Malekian Janik Shahbazian Zahra Taghipour Avlin Avakian Fattaneh Hadavi Soheila Rouhani Hilda Malekian Ziba Aflatoun | Japan L 24–89 | North Korea L 36–95 | China L 60–89 |  South Korea L 43–74 | 5 |
| Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Abdolreza Ansari | 48 kg | Bye |  de Kauwe (SRI)W Points | Kim (PRK) W Points | Park (KOR) L Points |  |
| Armid Bogosian | 51 kg | Netmanee (THA) LRSC | Did not advance | 9 | ||
| Hamlet Minasian | 54 kg | Bye |  Din (PAK)W Disqualification | Ishigaki (JPN) L Points | Did not advance |  |
| Jabbar Feli | 57 kg | Bye | Kim (PRK) W Points | Seubsanon (THA) W Walkover | Yu (KOR) L Knockout | |
| Hossein Madardoust | 60 kg | Pankaew (THA) W Points |  Gombo (MGL)L Points | Did not advance | | |
| Farshid Enteghami | 63.5 kg | Balouch (PAK) W Points |  Sebti (IRQ)W Points | Park (KOR) L Points | Did not advance | |
| Ahmad Poureftekhari | 67 kg | Bye | Chindarasi (THA) W Points | Seki (JPN) L Points | Did not advance | |
| Sharif Delaram | 71 kg | Bye | Singh (IND) W Points | Aquilino (PHI) W Points | Jang (PRK) W Points | |
| Vartex Parsanian | 75 kg | Bye | Kim (KOR) L Points | Did not advance | | |
| Masis Hambarsumian | 81 kg | Hussain (PAK) W Points | Singh (IND) W Points | | ||
| Abdolreza Andaveh | +81 kg | Shah (PAK) W Points | Bura (IND) W Disqualification | | ||
| Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hassan Arianfard | Road race | 5:16:12 | |
| Gholam Hossein Kouhi | Road race | 5:16:13 | |
| Behrouz Rahbar | Road race | 5:16:13 | |
| Hassan Arianfard Khosro Haghgosha Gholam Hossein Kouhi Esmaeil Zeinali | Team time trial | 2:17:04.47 | |
| Squad list | Preliminary round | Second round | Final | Rank | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Group D | Rank | Group A | Rank | |||
| Nasser Hejazi Bahram Mavaddat Mansour Rashidi Jafar Kashani Ebrahim Ashtiani Mohsen Houshangi Ezzat Janmaleki Akbar Kargarjam Masih Masihnia Mahmoud Etemadi Parviz Ghelichkhani Ali Parvin Ali Jabbari Mohammad Sadeghi Mohammad Dastjerdi Hassan Roshan Ghafour Jahani Mohammad Reza Adelkhani Gholam Hossein Mazloumi Karo Haghverdian Coach:  Frank O'Farrell | Pakistan W7–0 | 1 Q |  Malaysia W1–0 | 1 Q |  Israel W1–0 | |
 Burma W2–1 | South Korea W2–0 | |||||
| Bahrain W6–0 |  Iraq W1–0 | |||||
| Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & Jerk | Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
| Mohammad Nassiri | 52 kg | 100.0 | | 132.5 | | 232.5 | |
| Nasrollah Dehnavi | 67.5 kg | 127.5 | | 162.5 | | 290.0 | |
| Mehdi Attar-Ashrafi | 75 kg | 120.0 | | 160.0 | | 280.0 | |
| Ebrahim Pourdejam | 82.5 kg | 135.0 | | 170.0 | | 305.0 | |
| Ali Vali | 90 kg | 127.5 | | 185.0 | | 312.5 | |
| Shahkaram Karamzadeh | 110 kg | 122.5 | 4 | 165.0 | 5 | 297.5 | 5 |
| Houshang Kargarnejad | 110 kg | 140.0 | | 185.0 | | 325.0 | |
| Hafez Hassani | +110 kg | 130.0 | | 177.5 | | 307.5 | |
| Akbar Shokrollahi | +110 kg | 140.0 | | 177.5 | | 317.5 | |
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