Iran at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics

Iran at the
2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Iran at the; 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
IOC code	IRI
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	http://www.olympic.ir/
in Buenos Aires, Argentina; 6 – 18 October 2018
Competitors	49 in 18 sports
Medals; Ranked 7th	Gold 7 Silver 3 Bronze 4 Total 14
Summer Youth Olympics appearances (overview)
	2010; 2014; 2018;

Iran participated at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Competitors

Sport	Boys	Girls	Total
3x3 basketball		4	4
Aquatics, Swimming	1		1
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	3		3
Boxing	1		1
Canoeing	1	1	2
Equestrian	1		1
Fencing	1		1
Futsal	10		10
Gymnastics, Artistic	1		1
Judo	1	1	2
Karate	2	3	5
Rowing		1	1
Shooting	2		2
Table tennis	1		1
Taekwondo	3	3	6
Weightlifting	2		2
Wrestling	4		4
Total	35	14	49

Medal summary

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Navid Mohammadi	Karate	Men's +68 kg
Gold	Yalda Valinejad	Taekwondo	Women's 63 kg
Gold	Ali Eshkevarian	Taekwondo	Men's 73 kg
Gold	Mohammad Ali Khosravi	Taekwondo	Men's +73 kg
Gold	Alireza Yousefi	Weightlifting	Men's +85 kg
Gold	Amir Reza Dehbozorgi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 45 kg
Gold	Mohammad Nosrati	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 92 kg
Silver	Kimia Hemmati	Taekwondo	Women's +63 kg
Silver	Mohammad Karimi	Wrestling	Men's Freestyle 65 kg
Silver	Amir Hossein Zare	Wrestling	Men's Freestyle 110 kg
Bronze	Reza Bohloulzadeh	Gymnastics	Men's Pommel horse
Bronze	Fatemeh Khonakdar	Karate	Women's 53 kg
Bronze	Mobina Heidari	Karate	Women's 59 kg
Bronze	Negin Altooni	Karate	Women's +59 kg

Medals by sport
Sport				Total
Gymnastics	0	0	1	1
Karate	1	0	3	4
Taekwondo	3	1	0	4
Weightlifting	1	0	0	1
Wrestling	2	2	0	4
Total	7	3	4	14

Results by event

3x3 basketball

Girls^[1]

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Squad list	Group A	Rank	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Fatemeh Aghazadegan Fatemeh Bidar Negin Rasoulipour Aida Golmohammadi Coach: Elaheh Darestani	Hungary L 0–22	5	Did not advance			19
	Romania L 14–18
	Germany L 9–19
	China L 13–15

Girls^[1]

Athlete	Event	Preliminary			Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Time	Rank	Score	Time	Rank
Fatemeh Aghazadegan	Shoot-out	4	29.4	15	did not advance
Fatemeh Bidar	Shoot-out	3	30.0	26	did not advance

Aquatics

Swimming

Boys^[2]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alireza Yavari	100 m freestyle	52.08	28	Did not advance

Archery

Boys' recurve^[3]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Reza Shabani	Individual	653	23	Õun (EST) W 6–2 27–25, 26–28, 27–25, 30–26	Cheremiskin (RUS) W 6–4 28–28, 29–28, 27–28, 29–27, 27–27	Cowles (USA) L 0–6 26–29, 28–29, 27–28	Did not advance		8

Girls' recurve^[3]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Sogand Rahmani	Individual	631	20	Naumova (UKR) L 2–6 25–28, 26–23, 24–26, 23–25	Did not advance				17

Mixed recurve^[3]

Athlete	Event	Ranking round		1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Score	Seed	1/16 elimination	1/8 elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Shabani (IRI) Tromans-Ansell (GBR)	Team	1305	4	Roux (RSA) Kumari (IND) W 5–1 39–33, 35–35, 37–32	Õun (EST) Tagle (PHI) L 3–6 36–36, 34–34, 36–36, 33–36	Did not advance			9
Cadena (COL) Rahmani (IRI)	Team	1298	21	Ak (TUR) Pyae (MYA) L 0–6 25–35, 35–37, 36–37	Did not advance				17

Athletics

Boxing

Boys

Athlete	Event	Preliminary R1	Preliminary R2	Semifinals	Final / RM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Seyedsajad Mousavipaeindezaei	-81 kg	Merjanov (UZB) L 1–4	Kolesnikov (RUS) L KO R2 2:30	Did not advance	Morales (PUR) L WO	6

Canoeing

Iran qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2018 World Qualification Event.^[4]

Boys' C1 – 1 boat
Girls' C1 – 1 boat

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Repechage		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Sobhan Beiranvand	Boys' C1 sprint	2:01.21	12	2:00.11	6	—	Did not advance
Sobhan Beiranvand	Boys' C1 slalom	1:27.60	7	1:27.62	4	—	Bernárdez (ESP) L 1:25.72	Did not advance
Nirvana Asadbeki	Girls' C1 sprint	2:27.28	8	Bye		Malapane (MOZ) W 2:26.89	Nurlanova (KAZ) L 2:28.81	Did not advance
Nirvana Asadbeki	Girls' C1 slalom	1:28.57	2	Bye		Gönczöl (HUN) W 1:29.00	Cullwick (NZL) W 1:29.87	Delassus (FRA) L 1:28.53	Luknárová (SVK) L 1:29.56	4

Equestrian

Iran qualified a rider based on its ranking in the FEI World Jumping Challenge Rankings.^[5]

Individual Jumping – 1 athlete

Summary

Athlete	Horse	Event	Qualification					Final					Total
			Round 1		Round 2			Round A		Round B			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Arshia Najafinia	La Trinidad	Individual	—					20	27	12	12	27	32	27
Mix Australasia Almarzooqi (UAE) Najafinia (IRI) Burnett-Grant (NZL) Alqashouti (QAT) Sinderberry (AUS)	La Corina Lala La Trinidad Milagro Maximo Pietro Zambo	Team	24	=1 Q	36	60	5	—					60	4

Fencing

Boys

Athlete	Event	Pool Round	Seed	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM	Rank
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Seed	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Amirhossein Shaker	sabre	Mahbas (IRQ) W 5–3 Heathcock (GER) L 4–5 Rabb (HUN) W 5–0 Hyun (KOR) L 2–5 Coly (SEN) W 5–0 Vidovszky (USA) W 5–4 Elaraby (EGY) L 2–5	5	Kato L 9–15	did not advance			9

Futsal

Summary

Team	Event	Group stage					Semifinal	Final / BM
Team	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Iran U18	Boys' tournament	Solomon Islands W 9–2	Brazil L 0–4	Russia L 1–2	Costa Rica W 9–3	3	Did not advance

Team roster

Group stage

Pos	Team v t e	Pld	W	L	GF	GA	GD	Pts	Qualification
1	Brazil	4	4	0	25	4	+21	12	Semi-finals
2	Russia	4	3	1	19	12	+7	9	Semi-finals
3	Iran	4	2	2	19	11	+8	6
4	Costa Rica	4	1	3	17	27	−10	3
5	Solomon Islands	4	0	4	13	39	−26	0

Source: FIFA IOC

7 October 2018

20:00

Iran	9–2	Solomon Islands
Alizadeh 6', 12', 22' Ghanbari 11' Tamizi 18', 37' Esmaeili 35', 36' Sarbaz 38'	Report (FIFA) Report (IOC)	Lea'i 23', 39'

CeNARD

Attendance: 0

Referee: José Barrera (El Salvador)

10 October 2018

18:00

Brazil	4–0	Iran
Guilhermão 1', 16' Neguinho 29' Moura 38'	Report (FIFA) Report (IOC) Category:Futsal at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics – Boys First Round – BRA-IRI on Wikimedia Commons

CeNARD

Attendance: 788

Referee: Miguel Oliveira (Portugal)

12 October 2018

18:00

Iran	1–2	Russia
Alizadeh 31'	Report (FIFA) Report (IOC)	Karpiuk 32' (pen.) Fedorov 38'

Tecnópolis

Attendance: 6,100

Referee: Hiroyuki Kobayashi (Japan)

13 October 2018

18:00

Costa Rica	3–9	Iran
Corrales 1', 3' Mora 6'	Report (FIFA) Report (IOC)	Tamizi 5' Adelipour 14' Alizadeh 15' Mehdikhani 16' Aghapour 17' (pen.), 35' Esmaeili 19' (pen.), 21' Ghanbari 27' (pen.)

Tecnópolis

Attendance: 6,410

Referee: Ovidiu Curta (Romania)

Gymnastics

Artistic

Iran qualified one gymnasts based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Junior Championship.^[6]

Boys' artistic individual all-around – 1 quota

Boys

Athlete	Event	Apparatus						Total	Rank
Athlete	Event	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Reza Bohloulzade Hajlari	Qualification	12.766	13.166	11.300	12.333	12.800	11.766	74.131	18
	All-around	12.566	13.133	11.866	12.766	12.133	12.233	74.397	13
	Pommel horse	—	13.241	—				13.241

Multidiscipline

Team	Athlete	Acrobatic	Artistic	Rhythmic	Trampoline	Total points	Rank
Team Anna Bessonova (Gray)	Sophia Imrie-Gale (GBR) Clyde Gembickas (GBR)	15	—			381	4
	Ward Claeys (BEL)	—	99	—
	Reza Bohloulzade Hajlari (IRI)		65
	Ayan Moldagaliyev (KAZ)		36
	Eglė Stalinkevičiūtė (LTU)		42
	Ada Hautala (FIN)		10
	Giorgia Villa (ITA)		11
	Celia Joseph Noël (FRA)	—		40	—
	Celeste D'arcangelo (ARG)			13
	Tatyana Volozhanina (BUL)			26
	Jérémy Chartier (CAN)	—			15
	Vera Beliankina (RUS)	—			9

Judo

Individual

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Rep 1	Rep 2	Rep 3	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Abolfazl Shojaei	Boys' −100 kg	Nihozeko (BDI) W 10–00	Saduakas (KAZ) L 11–00	Did not advance	Bye		Bagrin (MDA) L 10–01	Did not advance	7
Maral Mardani	Girl' −78 kg	Ramirez (DOM) L 00–10	did not advance		Bye	Lobnik (SLO) L 00–10	did not advance		9

Karate

Iran qualified five athletes based on its performance at one of the Karate Qualification Tournaments.^[7]

Boys' −61 kg – Alireza Faraji
Boys' +68 kg – Navid Mohammadi
Girls' −53 kg – Fatemeh Khonakdar
Girls' −59 kg – Mobina Heidari
Girls' +59 kg – Negin Altooni

Athlete	Event	Group Stage				Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Alireza Faraji	Boys' 61 kg	Masaki Yamaoka (JPN) L 0-5	Oussama Edari (MAR) L 0-4	Pedropablo de la Roca (GUA) L 0-1	4	Did not advance
Navid Mohammadi	Boys' +68 kg	Sean McCarthy Crean (IRL) W 5-2	Keisei Sakiyama (JPN) L 0-2	Tomáš Kósa (SVK) W 1-0	2	Enes Bulut (TUR) D 3-3	Nabil Ech-Chaabi (MAR) W 5-0
Fatemeh Khonakdar	Girls' 53 kg	Rinka Tahata (JPN) L 0-1	Aika Okazaki (THA) W 2-0	Tânia de Barros (POR) W 6-0	2	Yasmin Nasr Elgewily (EGY) L 0-5	Did not advance
Mobina Heidari	Girls' 59 kg	Anna Chernysheva (RUS) L0-8	Assia Oukhattou (FRA) W1-0	Charlotte Hope (GBR) W2-0	2	Kokoro Sakaji (JPN) D0-0	Did not advance
Negin Altooni	Girls' +59 kg	Sakura Sawashima (JPN) W5-1	Janessa Fonseca (PUR) D0-0	Laura Lyck (DEN) L0-1	2	Annika Sælid (NOR) L0-4	Did not advance

Rowing

Iran qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualification Regatta.^[8]

Girls' single sculls – 1 athlete

Shooting

Individual

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Final
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank
Amirsiyavash Zolfagharian	Boys' 10 m air rifle	628.5	1 Q	119.9	8
Erfan Salavati	Boys' 10 m air pistol	580	2 Q	174.7	5

Team

Athletes	Event	Qualification		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athletes	Event	Points	Rank	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Mak Amanda Sao Keng (SGP) Erfan Salavati (IRI)	Mixed 10 metre air pistol	755-16	1	Ibarra Miranda (MEX) Honta (UKR) L 5-10	Did not advance
Alliana Volkart (ARG) Amirsiyavash Zolfagharian (IRI)	Mixed Team 10m Air Rifle	823.2	9 Q	Bober (POL) Dević (MNE) W 10 - 9	Erdenechuluun (MGL) Pekler (HUN) L 9 - 10	Did not advance		6

Table tennis

Athlete	Event	Group stage		Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Amin Ahmadian	Boys' singles	Choong (MAS) W 4–2 Thakkar (IND) W 4–1 Stankevicius (LTU) W 4–1	1 Q	Pang (SGP) L 0–4	did not advance			9

Taekwondo

Boys

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Hamed Asghari	63 kg	Bye	Aghayev (AZE) L 8–9	did not advance		5
Ali Eshkevarian	73 kg	Bye	Qiu (TPE) W 19–17	Padilla (ECU) W 29–5	Achab (BEL) W 17–16
Mohammadali Khosravi	+73 kg	Bye	Augustin (SLO) W 16–11	Abdul Rahimzai (AFG) W 19–16	Lee (TPE) W 2–1

Girls

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Mahla Momenzadeh	44 kg	Aden (DJI) W 32–0	Kang (KOR) L 14–15	did not advance		5
Yalda Valinejad	63 kg	Bye	Hamaidi (JOR) W 12–2	Garcia (MEX) W 26–22	Bozanic (SRB) W 23–17
Kimia Hemmati	+63 kg	Bye	Gannaway (GBR) W 19–8	Adebaio (RUS) W 21–19	Aboufaras (MAR) L 16–18

Weightlifting

Boys^[9]

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
Amir Reza Askaridoun	85 kg	133	165	298	4
Alireza Yousefi	+85 kg	162	218	380

Wrestling

Boys' freestyle

Athlete	Event	Pools		Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Groups	Rank	Final	Rank
Mohammad Karimi	65 kg	Ismail (EGY) W 6–5	Group B 1 Q	Bayramov (AZE) L 1–6
Mohammad Karimi	65 kg	Manville (USA) W 10–0	Group B 1 Q	Bayramov (AZE) L 1–6
Amir Hossein Zare	110 kg	Barns (AUS) W 11–0	Group A 1 Q	Kozyrev (RUS) L 5–6
Amir Hossein Zare	110 kg	Khalil (EGY) W 11–0	Group A 1 Q	Kozyrev (RUS) L 5–6

Boys' Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Pools		Final	Rank
Athlete	Event	Groups	Rank	Final	Rank
Amir Reza Dehbozorgi	45 kg	Nazaryan (BUL) W 3–1	Group A 1 Q	Peralta (ECU) W 8–0
Amir Reza Dehbozorgi	45 kg	Shaaban (EGY) W 10–0	Group A 1 Q	Peralta (ECU) W 8–0
Mohammad Nosrati	92 kg	Queiroz (BRA) W 5–0	Group B 1 Q	Ayaydın (TUR) W 3–1
Mohammad Nosrati	92 kg	Evloev (RUS) W 5–3	Group B 1 Q	Ayaydın (TUR) W 3–1

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v t e Nations at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Africa	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea‑Bissau Ivory Coast Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda São Tomé and Príncipe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bermuda Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Cuba Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Grenada Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Kitts‑Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Vincent‑Grenadines Suriname Trinidad‑Tobago United States Uruguay Venezuela Virgin Islands
Asia	Afghanistan Bahrain Bangladesh Bhutan Brunei Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iran Iraq Japan Jordan Kazakhstan North Korea South Korea Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Lebanon Malaysia Maldives Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Oman Pakistan Palestine Philippines Qatar Saudi Arabia Singapore Sri Lanka Syria Chinese Taipei Tajikistan Thailand Turkmenistan United Arab Emirates Uzbekistan Vietnam Yemen
Europe	Albania Andorra Armenia Austria Azerbaijan Belarus Belgium Bosnia‑Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Cyprus Czech Republic Denmark Estonia Finland France Georgia Germany Great Britain Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Kosovo Latvia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macedonia Malta Moldova Monaco Montenegro Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia San Marino Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey Ukraine
Oceania	American Samoa Australia Cook Islands Federated States of Micronesia Fiji Guam Kiribati Marshall Islands Nauru New Zealand Palau Papua New Guinea Samoa Solomon Islands Tonga Tuvalu Vanuatu
Related	Teams of athletes from more than one NOC

v t e Youth Olympic medalists for Iran
2010 2014 2018
Gold medalists	Kaveh Rezaei Alireza Kazeminejad Ramin Safavieh Mehdi Eshaghi Kimia Alizadeh Navid Mohammadi Yalda Valinejad Ali Eshkevarian Mohammad Ali Khosravi Alireza Yousefi Amir Reza Dehbozorgi Mohammad Nosrati
Silver medalists	Mohammad Soleimani Mehran Sheikhi Kimia Hemmati Mohammad Karimi Amir Hossein Zare
Bronze medalists	Negin Altooni Fatemeh Khonakdar Mobina Heidari Yousef Ghaderian Danial Salehimehr Mohammad Reza Aghania Keramat Abdevali Reza Bohloulzadeh