Iran at the Asian Games

Iran at the Asian Games
Flag of Iran IOC code  IRI NOC National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran Website www.olympic.ir (Persian) (English)
Asian Games history
Asian Games
1951 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014
Asian Winter Games
1986 1990 1996 1999 2003 2007 2011
Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games
2005 2007 2009 2013
Asian Beach Games
2008 2010 2012 2014
Asian Youth Games
2009 2013
West Asian Games history
West Asian Games
1997 2002 2005

Iran first participated at the Asian Games in 1951, and has sent athletes to compete in every Asian Games since then, except for 1958, 1962 and 1978.

The National Olympic Committee for Iran is the National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and was founded in 1947.

Medals by games

Asian Games

See also: All-time Asian Games medal table

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1951 1951 New Delhi	8	6	2	16	3
1954 Manila	Did not participate
1958 1958 Tokyo	7	14	11	32	4
1962 Jakarta	Did not participate
1966 1966 Bangkok	6	8	17	31	6
1970 1970 Bangkok	9	7	7	23	4
1974 1974 Tehran	36	28	17	81	2
1978 Bangkok	Did not participate
1982 1982 New Delhi	4	4	4	12	7
1986 1986 Seoul	6	6	10	22	4
1990 1990 Beijing	4	6	8	18	5
1994 1994 Hiroshima	9	9	8	26	6
1998 1998 Bangkok	10	11	13	34	7
2002 2002 Busan	8	14	14	36	10
2006 2006 Doha	11	15	22	48	6
2010 2010 Guangzhou	20	15	24	59	4
2014 2014 Incheon	21	18	18	57	5
Total	159	161	175	495	4

Asian Winter Games

See also: All-time Asian Winter Games medal table

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1986 Sapporo	Did not participate
1990 1990 Sapporo	0	0	0	0	—
1996 1996 Harbin	0	0	0	0	—
1999 1999 Kangwon	0	0	0	0	—
2003 2003 Aomori	0	0	0	0	—
2007 2007 Changchun	0	0	0	0	—
2011 2011 Astana–Almaty	0	1	2	3	6
Total	0	1	2	3	9

Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2005 2005 Bangkok	3	5	2	10	11
2007 2007 Macau	4	4	9	17	8
2009 Bangkok	Did not participate
2009 2009 Hanoi	17	15	13	45	5
2013 2013 Incheon	3	6	2	11	6
Total	27	30	26	83	7

Asian Beach Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2008 2008 Bali	0	0	0	0	—
2010 2010 Muscat	0	0	2	2	21
2012 2012 Haiyang	2	0	0	2	7
2014 2014 Phuket	9	15	7	31	3
Total	11	15	9	35	6

Asian Youth Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
2009 2009 Singapore	1	3	2	6	11
2013 2013 Nanjing	0	6	2	8	20
Total	1	9	4	14	15

Medals by sport

Asian Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Diving	0	1	3	4
Aquatics, Water polo	1	0	0	1
Archery	1	0	1	2
Athletics	10	14	10	34
Basketball	0	1	3	4
Board games, Chess	0	0	1	1
Boxing	5	11	26	42
Canoeing, Slalom	0	0	1	1
Canoeing, Sprint	1	4	3	8
Cycling, Road	3	5	6	14
Cycling, Track	2	5	8	15
Equestrian	0	0	1	1
Fencing	3	5	6	14
Football	4	2	1	7
Handball	0	1	1	2
Judo	1	7	10	18
Kabaddi	0	3	1	4
Karate	12	8	7	27
Rowing	2	0	4	6
Shooting	1	4	2	7
Table tennis	0	0	2	2
Taekwondo	12	11	16	39
Tennis	0	2	2	4
Volleyball, Indoor	1	3	2	6
Weightlifting	31	29	19	79
Wrestling	64	40	33	137
Wushu	5	5	6	16
Total	159	161	175	495

Asian Winter Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Ski orienteering	0	1	1	2
Skiing, Alpine	0	0	1	1
Total	0	1	2	3

Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
3-on-3 basketball	1	0	0	1
Board games, Chess	0	1	3	4
Cue sports	0	1	0	1
Electronic sports	2	2	3	7
Futsal	4	1	0	5
Indoor archery	3	1	4	8
Indoor athletics	4	4	4	12
Indoor hockey	1	0	0	1
Kabaddi	0	3	1	4
Kickboxing	2	2	0	4
Kurash	3	2	1	6
Muay	4	4	3	11
Pencak silat	0	2	1	3
Sepak takraw	0	0	1	1
Short course swimming	1	1	1	3
Sport climbing	0	0	1	1
Vovinam	1	3	3	7
Wushu	1	3	0	4
Total	27	30	26	83

Asian Beach Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Aquatics, Beach water polo	0	1	0	1
Beach athletics	1	2	0	3
Beach kabaddi	2	0	1	3
Beach kurash	1	3	1	5
Beach sambo	0	1	1	2
Beach sepak takraw	0	0	2	2
Beach soccer	2	0	1	3
Beach volleyball	0	1	0	1
Beach wrestling	3	0	0	3
Bodybuilding	1	1	0	2
Footvolley	0	1	0	1
Ju-jitsu	0	3	2	5
Muay	1	2	1	4
Total	11	15	9	35

Asian Youth Games

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
3-on-3 basketball	0	1	0	1
Athletics	1	5	2	8
Football	0	1	1	2
Judo	0	0	1	1
Shooting	0	1	0	1
Taekwondo	0	1	0	1
Total	1	9	4	14

West Asian Games

Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
1997 Tehran	63	37	56	156	1
2002 Kuwait City	9	11	16	36	3
2005 Doha	20	25	16	61	3
Total	92	73	88	253	1

Multiple Asian Games gold medalists

This is a list of multiple Asian Games gold medalists for Iran, listing people who have won more than two gold medals.

Athletes in bold are still active.

Athlete	Sport	Asian Games	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Mohammad Nassiri	Weightlifting	1966–1974	4	1	0	5
Moslem Eskandar-Filabi	Wrestling	1966–1974	4	0	0	4
Reza Soukhteh-Saraei	Wrestling	1974–1990	3	1	0	4
Houshang Kargarnejad	Weightlifting	1970–1974	3	0	1	4
Ehsan Haddadi	Athletics	2006–2014	3	0	0	3
Alireza Heidari	Wrestling	1998–2006	3	0	0	3
Reza Yazdani	Wrestling	2006–2014	3	0	0	3
Jalal Keshmiri	Athletics	1966–1974	2	3	1	6
Hassan Arianfard	Cycling	1970–1974	2	1	1	4
Jasem Vishgahi	Karate	2002–2010	2	1	0	3
Akbar Shokrollahi	Weightlifting	1974	2	1	0	3
Ali Vali	Weightlifting	1974	2	1	0	3
Teymour Ghiasi	Athletics	1966–1974	2	0	1	3
Hossein Rezazadeh	Weightlifting	1998–2006	2	0	1	3

External links

• Official website of the Iran Olympic Committee