Iran at the 2016 Summer Olympics
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| IOC code | IRI | ||||||||
| NOC | National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran | ||||||||
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| Competitors | 63 in 15 sports | ||||||||
| Flag bearer | Zahra Nemati | ||||||||
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Medals Ranked 25th |
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Iran (officially the Islamic Republic of Iran) competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's debut in 1948, Iranian athletes had attended in every Summer Olympic Games of the modern era, with the exception of the 1980 and 1984 Summer Olympics.
The National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran fielded a team of 63 athletes, 54 men and 9 women, across 15 sports at the Games. It was the nation's third-largest delegation sent to the Olympics, and also underlined its most female participation in history. Men's volleyball was the only team-based sport in which Iran had its representatives at the Games, signifying the nation's Olympic debut. Wrestling had the largest team by an individual-based sport with 12 athletes; there was only a single competitor each in archery, boxing, flatwater canoeing, rowing, and swimming.
The Iranian roster featured a number of past Olympic medalists, including discus thrower Ehsan Haddadi, who won the nation's first ever athletics medal with a silver, and four defending champions from London: weightlifter Behdad Salimi, and Greco-Roman wrestlers Hamid Sourian, Omid Norouzi, and Ghasem Rezaei. Other notable Iranian athletes included table tennis player Noshad Alamian and his younger brother Nima in the men's singles, rifle shooter and London 2012 finalist Elaheh Ahmadi, and paraplegic archer Zahra Nemati, who significantly became the nation's first ever female athlete to earn an Olympic or Paralympic title four years earlier. Consequently, Nemati's story and sporting success prompted her to lead the Iranian delegation as the flag bearer in the opening ceremony, the third by a female in history.
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