Following the receiving of Olympic berths by Iranian athletes in various sportive fields as well as qualification events and technical meetings, Iranian federations have announced final rosters to form Iran’s convoy at the 31st round of Olympic Games.
Full names of the 63 Iranian athlete to vie at the 2016 Olympics are as follow:
Boxing: Ehsan Rouzbehani
Taekwondo: Kimia Alizadeh, Farzan Ashourzadeh, Mahdi Khodabakhshi, Sajjad Mardani
Table Tennis: Nima Alamian, Noshad Alamian, Neda Shahsavari
Shooting: Najmeh Khedmati, Mahlagha Jamebozorg, Pouria Norouzian, Golnoosh Sebghatollahi, Elaheh Ahmadi
Archery: Zahra Nemati
Judo: Alireza Khojasteh, Javad Mahjoub, Saeid Molaei
Athletics: Hassan Taftian, Mohammad Jafar Moradi, Hamidreza Zuravand, Mahmoud Samimi, Ehsan Haddadi, Leila Rajabi, Pejman Ghalenoei, Reza Ghasemi, Kaveh Mousavi, Mohammad Arzandeh
Cycling: Ghader Mizbani, Arvin Moazemi, Seyed Samad Pourseyedi
Fencing: Ali Pakdaman, Mojtaba Abedini
Swimming: Aria Nasimishad
Sailing: Mahsa Javar
Freestyle Wrestling: Hassan Yazdani, Alireza Karimi, Meysam Nasiri, Hassan Rahimi, Komeil Ghasemi, Reza Yazdani (if needed, Amir Mohammadi will substitute for Yazdani)
Greco-Roman Wrestling: Saeid Abdevali, Bashir Babajanzadeh, Hamid Sourian, Omid Norouzi, Ghasem Rezaei, Habibollah Akhlaghi (if need be, Ramin Taheri will substitute for Akhlaghi)
Volleyball: Mojtaba Mirzajanpour, Milad Ebadipour, Amir Ghafour, Farhad Ghaemi, Shahram Mahmoudi, Seyed Mohammad Mousavi, Mostafa Sharifat, Mahdi Marandi, Saeid Marouf, Hamzeh Zarrini, Adel Gholami, Mahdi Mahdavi
Weightlifting: Behdad Salimi, Kianoush Rostami, Sohrab Moradi (the two other athletes will be chosen among Mohammadreza Barari, Bahador Molaei and Ali Hashemi)
The 2016 Summer Olympics, commonly known as Rio 2016, is a major international multi-sport event in the tradition of the Olympic Games due to take place in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. A record number of countries are participating in a record number of sports. More than 10,500 athletes from 206 National Olympic Committees (NOCs), including first time entrants Kosovo and South Sudan, are scheduled to take part.
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