Iran at the 1966 Asian Games

Iran participated in the 1966 Asian Games held in the capital city of Bangkok, and ranked 6th with 6 gold medals on this occasion of the Asiad.

Iran at the 1966 Asian Games
IOC code	IRN
NOC	National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran
Website	www.olympic.ir (in Persian and English)
in Bangkok
Competitors	118 in 12 sports
Flag bearer	Mansour Mehdizadeh
Medals Ranked 6th	Gold 6 Silver 8 Bronze 17 Total 31
Asian Games appearances (overview)
1951 1954 1958 1962 1966 1970 1974 1978 1982 1986 1990 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022

Medal summary

Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Wrestling	3	5	0	8
Weightlifting	3	0	4	7
Athletics	0	2	2	4
Football	0	1	0	1
Boxing	0	0	4	4
Cycling	0	0	2	2
Tennis	0	0	2	2
Volleyball	0	0	2	2
Table tennis	0	0	1	1
Totals (9 entries)	6	8	17	31

Medalists

Athletics

• Silver
  • Ahmad Mirhosseini - Men's 3000 m steeplechase
  • Jalal Keshmiri - Men's discus throw
• Bronze
  • Teymour Ghiassi - Men's high jump
  • Jalal Keshmiri - Men's shot put

Boxing

• Bronze
  • Nasser Aghaei - Men's 57 kg
  • Eltefat Talebi - Men's 60 kg
  • Aloush Abbasi - Men's 81 kg
  • Hossein Fathianpour - Men's +81 kg

Cycling

Road

• Bronze
  • Team - Men's team time trial
    • Team roster
      • Hassan Roustaei
      • Mehdi Doukchi
      • Davoud Akhlaghi
      • Esmaeil Hosseini

Track

• Bronze
  • Esmaeil Hosseini - Men's individual pursuit

Football

• Silver
  • Team - Men
    • Team roster
      • Aziz Asli
      • Faramarz Zelli
      • Parviz Ghelichkhani
      • Hassan Habibi
      • Hamid Jasemian
      • Goudarz Habibi
      • Mohammad Ranjbar
      • Jalal Talebi
      • Mostafa Arab
      • Hossein Farzami
      • Ali Jabbari
      • Hamid Aminikhah
      • Akbar Eftekhari
      • Abdollah Saedi
      • Fariborz Esmaeili
      • Hamid Shirzadeghan
      • Homayoun Behzadi
      • Parviz Mirzahassan
    • Head coach: Gyorgy Szucs

Table tennis

• Bronze
  • Houshang Bozorgzadeh - Men's singles

Tennis

• Bronze
  • Taghi Akbari - Men's singles
  • Team - Men's team
    • Team roster
      • Taghi Akbari
      • Ezzatollah Nemati
      • Nematollah Nemati
      • Issa Khodaei

Volleyball

Indoor

• Bronze
  • Team - Men
    • Team roster
      • Mahmoud Motlagh
      • Hassan Kord
      • Masoud Salehieh
      • Khalil Paknazar
      • Changiz Ansari
      • Hassan Kabiri
      • Mohammad Hemmatyar
      • Mojtaba Mortazavi
    • Head coach: Hossein Jabbarzadegan
  • Team - Women
    • Team roster
      • Mari Tet
      • Rouhi Pandnavaz
      • Mehri Kharrazi
      • Ozra Malek
      • Mina Fathi
      • Nasrin Shokoufi
      • Leila Emami
      • Pari Fardi
      • Jaleh Seyed-Hadizadeh
    • Head coach: Fereydoon Sharifzadeh

Weightlifting

• Gold
  • Mohammad Nassiri - Men's 56 kg
  • Parviz Jalayer - Men's 67.5 kg
  • Manouchehr Boroumand - Men's +90 kg
• Bronze
  • Mohammadreza Nasehi - Men's 52 kg
  • Mohammad Ammi Tehrani - Men's 75 kg
  • Naser Doroudian - Men's 90 kg
  • Reza Esteki - Men's +90 kg

Wrestling

Freestyle

• Gold
  • Abdollah Movahed - Men's 70 kg
  • Mansour Mehdizadeh - Men's 97 kg
  • Eskandar Filabi - Men's +97 kg
• Silver
  • Ali Akbar Heidari - Men's 52 kg
  • Mohammad Ali Farrokhian - Men's 57 kg
  • Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour - Men's 63 kg
  • Hossein Tahami - Men's 78 kg
  • Mahmoud Moezzipour - Men's 87 kg

References

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