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	Gold 5 Silver 1 Bronze 0 Total 6
Summer Youth Olympics appearances
	2010; 2014; 2018;

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

Competitors

Sport	Boys	Girls	Total
Archery	1	1	2
Athletics	3	0	3
Basketball	0	4	4
Boxing	1	0	1
Canoeing	1	1	2
Equestrian	1	0	1
Fencing	1	0	1
Futsal	10	0	10
Gymnastics, Artistic	1	0	1
Judo	1	1	2
Karate	2	3	5
Rowing	0	1	1
Shooting	2	0	2
Swimming	1	0	1
Table tennis	1	0	1
Taekwondo	3	3	6
Weightlifting	2	0	2
Wrestling	4	0	4
Total	35	14	49

Medal Summary

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Yalda Valinejad	Taekwondo	Women's 63kg
Gold	Ali Eshkevarian	Taekwondo	Men's 73kg

Archery

Iran qualified one male archer based on its performance at the 2017 World Archery Youth Championships. They later qualified a female archer based on its performance at the Asian Continental Qualification Tournament.^[1]^[2]

Boys' Individual - 1 quota
Girls' Individual - 1 quota

Basketball

Team roster

Fatemeh Aghazadegan
Fatemeh Bidar
Aida Golmohammadi
Negin Rasoulipour

Girls' tournament

Event	Group stage					Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Girls' tournament	Hungary L 0–22	Romania L 14–18	Germany L 9-19	China L 13-15	5	Did not advance

Canoeing

Iran qualified two boats based on its performance at the 2018 World Qualification Event.^[3]

Boys' C1 - 1 boat
Girls' C1 - 1 boat

Equestrian

Iran qualified a rider based on its ranking in the FEI World Jumping Challenge Rankings.^[4]

Individual Jumping - 1 athlete

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's tournament	Solomon Islands W 9-2	Brazil L 0-4	Russia	Costa Rica

Team roster

Group stage

Pos	Team	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 201820:00

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

CeNARD

Attendance: 0

Referee: José Barrera (El Salvador)

10 October 201818:00

Brazil	4–0	Iran
Guilhermão 1', 16' Neguinho 29' Moura 38'	Report (FIFA) Report (IOC)

CeNARD

Attendance: 788

Referee: Miguel Oliveira (Portugal)

12 October 201818:00

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 201818:00

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.^[5]

Boys' artistic individual all-around - 1 quota

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 four athletes based on its performance at one of the Karate Qualification Tournaments.^[6]

Boys' -61 kg - Alireza Faraji
Boys' +68 kg - Navid Mohammadi
Girls' -53kg - Fatemeh Khonakdar
Girls' -59kg - Mobina Heidari

Rowing

Iran qualified one boat based on its performance at the 2018 Asian Youth Olympic Games Qualification Regatta.^[7]

Girls' single sculls - 1 athlete

Shooting

Boys

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

Swimming

Boys

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Alireza Yavari	100 m freestyle	52.08	28	Did not advance

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

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

Weightlifting

Iran qualified two boys from 2017 World Youth Championships to the tournament.

References

↑ "YOG 2018 Qualification Places - Boys" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
↑ "YOG 2018 Qualification Places - Girls" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.
↑ "Nine countries set to make YOG canoeing debut". International Canoe Federation (ICF). 21 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
↑ "Qualified NOC's to the 3rd Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires - 2018" (PDF). FEI. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
↑ "2018 Youth Olympic Games Gymnastics Qualifiers". FIG. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.
↑ "Youth Olympic qualifier concludes in Umag with new karatekas making it to Buenos Aires 2018". World Karate Federation. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.
↑ "2018 Youth Olympic Games Rowing Places Obtained" (PDF). FISA. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.

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[1] "YOG 2018 Qualification Places - Boys" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

[2] "YOG 2018 Qualification Places - Girls" (PDF). World Archery Federation. Retrieved 15 December 2017.

[3] "Nine countries set to make YOG canoeing debut". International Canoe Federation (ICF). 21 April 2018. Retrieved 14 May 2018.

[4] "Qualified NOC's to the 3rd Youth Olympic Games – Buenos Aires - 2018" (PDF). FEI. 17 January 2018. Retrieved 17 January 2018.

[Gymnastics-5] "2018 Youth Olympic Games Gymnastics Qualifiers". FIG. 25 June 2018. Retrieved 26 June 2018.

[6] "Youth Olympic qualifier concludes in Umag with new karatekas making it to Buenos Aires 2018". World Karate Federation. 1 July 2018. Retrieved 1 July 2018.

[7] "2018 Youth Olympic Games Rowing Places Obtained" (PDF). FISA. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 10 November 2017.