Iran at the Olympics Trivia Quiz

Answer: Fencing

Malkom competed in the epee event at the 1900 Olympic Games, held in Paris, France. Persia, later Iran, did not send any more athletes to the Olympics until 1948.

Answer: IRI

The National Olympic Committee of the Islamic Republic of Iran was founded in 1947, and since the 1948 Games, teams from Iran have entered every Olympiad in the 20th century except 1980 and 1984.

Answer: Boxing

In total, the Iranian Olympic athletes won 48 medals. These were twelve for weightlifting, thirty two for wrestling, and four for taekwondo. All the winners were men.

Answer: Skiing

Iran has entered athletes for both the alpine and cross country skiing events at the Winter Olympics over the years. Their first entrants competed at the 1956 Games, held in Cortina D'Ampezzo, Italy.
At the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, the first ever female Winter Olympics competitor from Iran, Marjan Kalhor, carried the national flag at the opening ceremony.

Answer: True

Over the years, Iranian athletes have won no less than 89 medals at the Paralympic Games. As well as the Paralympics, Iranian athletes compete in many other international sporting events for disabled athletes. In 2003 the Iranian team took third place at the World Powerlifting Championship for athletes with a disability.

Answer: Canoeing

Khiarak entered the sprint canoeing events at the Sydney Olympics in 2000, but was eliminated in the early rounds of both his K-1 1000m and 1500m events.

Answer: He withdrew before the start of his race due to illness

Dizicheh withdrew from the 100m breaststroke competition, and stated that he had been taken ill. There was some speculation that he was in fact told to withdraw to avoid competing against an Israeli athlete, but Iranian team officials denied this. A similar incident had occurred in Athens, at the 2004 Games, in the judo event.

Answer: Aga Khan

Prince Karim Aga Khan was a skiier, and competed at the 1960 Winter Olympics for Turkey, as well as the 1964 Games for Iran.

Answer: Tae Kwondo

Saei has also won an Olympic bronze medal, and several silver and bronze medals at the various World and Asian Championships in taekwondo.
In 2003, he auctioned off several of his medals to raise money for the town of Bam that had suffered terrible damage in an earthquake. In 2004, he was voted Iranian Sports Person of the Year. He retired from competitive sport in 2008.

Answer: True

At the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, ladies named Simin Safamehr, Nazli Bayatmakoo and Juliet Gevorgian competed in track and field, and Jamileh Sorouri in the artistic gymnastics events.