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Also, in late August 2007, the Iran national under-19 volleyball team surprised many by winning the gold medal in the Volleyball World Championship in Mexico, after beating France and China in the semi-finals and finals respectively and marking the first such international gold medal for an Iranian team sport. Iran featured a men's national ...
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After a twenty-year absence, Iran qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup and recorded their first-ever World Cup victory, defeating the United States 2–1. Iran has also more recently qualified for the tournament in 2006, 2014, 2018 and 2022, failing to advance past the group stage on each occasion.
Iran participated in 9 Summer Olympics and gained 4 gold medals before the 1979 Revolution, and participated in 10 Summer Olympics and won 23 gold medals after the revolution. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Freydoun Malkom , a fencer who competed in the épée event at the 1900 Summer Olympics , was the first Iranian Olympic competitor.
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Iran entered two male boxers into the Olympic tournament. 19-year-old Danial Shahbakhsh (men's featherweight) and Asia's second-seeded boxer Seyed Shahin Mousavi (men's middleweight) secured the spots on the Iranian squad, by scoring a box-off triumph each in their respective weight divisions at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament ...
The National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran (Persian: کمیته ملی المپیک جمهوری اسلامی ایران) is the National Olympic Committee (NOC) for Iran, and the governing body of Olympic sports in Iran. It was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Tehran. [1]
Iran was the highest-ranked team to be seeded in the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification. Iran was drawn into the second round where they would have to deal with two Arab countries, Iraq and Bahrain, along with Cambodia and Hong Kong. Iran, under new Belgian manager Marc Wilmots, began with a 2–0 win over Hong