Iran at the 1958 Asian Games

The National Iranian Boxing Team standing, prior to being sent to The Third Asian Games in Tokyo 1958

This was the first time Iranian boxers were participating in an official Asian tournament, such as the Asian Games, with 9 boxers, the most boxers after the Japanese boxing team. In the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, the Iranian boxing team managed to bag a total of 6 medals, including three silver medals, three bronze medals, and also obtained three fifth places.[2] The consequence of this participation resulted in Iran's boxing team to rank second, considering medal counts, and fifth, in the overall boxing table, helping Iran Sports Convoy to rank fourth, overall in the Third Asian Games, which was applauded by the Iranian officials.[3]

The Iranian national boxing team, which consisted of boxers from Tehran Taj club and Tehran Jafari club, was coached by Petros Nazarbegian,[4][5] and the team members were: Ezaria Ilkhanoff (Persian: ایزاریا ایلخانوف) in the Flyweight division (bronze medal),[6] Karapet Kochar (Persian: کاراپت کوچار) in the Bantamweight division (fifth place), Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh (Persian: صادق علی اکبرزاده) in the Featherweight division (fifth place),[7] Hassan Pakandam (Persian: حسن پاک اندام) in the Lightweight division (fifth place),[8] Vazik Kazarian (Persian: وازیک قازاریان) in the Light-Welterweight division (silver medal),[9] Soren Pirjanian (Persian: سورن پیرجانیان) in the Welterweight division (silver medal),[10] Amir Yavari (captain) (Persian: امیر یاوری) in the Light-middleweight division (silver medal),[11] Leon Khachatourian (Persian: لئون خاچاطوریان) in the Middleweight division (bronze medal),[12] Akbar Khojini (Persian: اکبرخوجینی) in the Light heavyweight division (bronze medal), (no participant in the Heavyweight division).[13]

Men

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Ezaria Ilkhanoff	51 kg		Bonus (PHI) W Points	Hla (BIR) L Points	Did not advance
Karapet Kochar	54 kg	Bye	Suzuki (JPN) L Points	Did not advance		5
Sadegh Aliakbarzadeh	57 kg	Bye	Ikeyama (JPN) L Points	Did not advance		5
Hassan Pakandam	60 kg		Chung (KOR) L Points	Did not advance		5
Vazik Kazarian	63.5 kg		Bye	Chundakowsolaya (THA) W Points	Kawakami (JPN) L Points
Soren Pirjanian	67 kg		David (PHI) W Points	Onuki (JPN) W Points	Kim (KOR) L Points
Amir Yavari	71 kg		Bye	Hussain (PAK) W Points	Takahashi (JPN) L Points
Leon Khachatourian	75 kg			Singh (IND) L Points	Did not advance
Akbar Khojini	81 kg			Mahmood (PAK) L Points	Did not advance

Men

Athlete	Event	1st round	2nd round	3rd round	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
George Aftandilian	Singles	Bye	Pinto (CEY) L 0–2 2–6, 2–6	Did not advance				17
Enoud Jasemzadeh	Singles	Ishiguro (JPN) L 0–2 0–6, 2–6	Did not advance					33
Henry Johanes	Singles	Dungo (PHI) L 0–2 1–6, 2–6	Did not advance					33
Arsham Yasaei	Singles	Bye	Tsai (HKG) L 1–2 9–7, 2–6, 1–6	Did not advance				17
George Aftandilian Enoud Jasemzadeh	Doubles		Lim (SGP)  Pakir (SGP) L 1–2 9–7, 4–6, 0–6	Did not advance				17
Henry Johanes Arsham Yasaei	Doubles		Võ (VNM)  Võ (VNM) L 1–2 9–7, 4–6, 3–6	Did not advance				17

Men

Athlete	Event	Press	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
Esmaeil Elmkhah	52 kg				277.5
Mahmoud Namjoo	56 kg				315.0
Ali Safa-Sonboli	60 kg	107.5	102.5	132.5	342.5
Henrik Tamraz	67.5 kg	112.5	112.5	145.0	370.0
Ebrahim Peiravi	75 kg	115.0	117.5	147.5	380.0
Jalal Mansouri	82.5 kg	127.5	122.5	150.0	400.0
Hassan Rahnavardi	90 kg	140.0	127.5	165.0	432.5
Firouz Pojhan	+90 kg	152.5	132.5	175.0	460.0

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Rank
Khalil Rayatpanah	52 kg	Bye	Alcantara (PHI) W Fall	Yoshida (JPN) L Points	Din (PAK) W Points
Gholam Hossein Zandi	57 kg	Im (KOR) W Points	Iizuka (JPN) D Points	Tomasis (PHI) W Fall	Akhtar (PAK) L Points
Nasser Givehchi	62 kg	Perez (PHI) W Fall	Din (PAK) D Points	Nakagawa (JPN) L Points	Bye
Emam-Ali Habibi	67 kg	Ashraf (PAK) W	Bong (KOR) W Points	Abe (JPN) W Points	Bye
Jahanbakht Tofigh	73 kg	Choi (KOR) W	Kaneko (JPN) D Points	Khalunder (AFG) W Fall	Bye
Nabi Sorouri	79 kg	Nagai (JPN) D Points	Rahim (AFG) W Fall	Rasool (PAK) W	Arcales (PHI) W Fall
Gholamreza Takhti	87 kg	Bye	Hwang (KOR) W Fall	Bye	Takagi (JPN) W Fall
Abbas Zandi	+87 kg	Ohira (JPN) W Points	Nazir (PAK) D Points	Bye