Iranian athletes finish Asian Games with 54 medals

Iran has sent 289 male and female athletes to the Games in 34 sports events.

At the end of the tournament, Iranian athletes won 13 gold, 21 silver, and 20 bronze medals to stand in seventh place in sporting events.

China, Japan, South Korea, India, Uzbekistan, and Chinese Taipei were ranked first to sixth respectively.

Iran’s national chess and volleyball teams each won gold medals in the Asian Games.

Afshin Salimi (Wushu), Yousef Sabri (Wushu), Sadegh Azarang (Kurash), Hossein Rasouli (Discus throw), Reza Alipour (Climbing), Mohammad-Hadi Saravi (Greco-Roman wrestling), Amin Mirzazadeh (Greco-Roman wrestling), Sajjad Ganjzadeh (Karate), Younes Emami (Freestyle wrestling), Hassan Yazdani (Freestyle wrestling), and Amir-Hossein Zare (Freestyle wrestling) were Iranian athletes who bagged gold medals in different categories for the country in the sporting event.

Iran’s women’s double sculls team and quadruple sculls team, Iran’s men’s kabaddi team each won silver medals in the Asian Games.

Mehdi Hajimousaei (Taekwondo), Alireza Hosseinpour (Taekwondo), Arian Salimi (Taekwondo), Shoja Panahi (Wushu), Zahra Kiani (Talo-Wushu), Elahe Mansourian (Wushu), Mohsen Mohammadseifi (Wushu), Mehdi Olfati (Gymnastic), Majid Vahid Barimanlo (Kurash), Donya Aghaei (Wushu), Zahra Bagheri (Wushu), Ehsan Hadadi (Discus throw), Amin Kavianinejad (Greco-Roman wrestling), Naser Alizadeh (Greco-Roman wrestling), Taraneh Ahmadi (Freestyle skating), Rahman Amouzad (Freestyle wrestling), Mojtaba Goleij (Freestyle wrestling) and Ali Davoudi (Powerlifting) were Iranian athletes who bagged silver medals in different categories for the country in China.

Iranian national table tennis, fencing, shooting, double table tennis, 2x Canoe, Kayak and Wome’s Kabadditeams each won bronze medals in the Asian Games.

Also, Iranian athletes including Marjan Salahshouri (Taekwondo), Mobina Nematzadeh (Taekwondo), Matin Rezaei (Taekwondo), Melika Mirhosseini (Taekwondo), Mehran Barkhourdari (Taekwondo), Faranak Partoazar (Cycling), Mohammad Rahbari (Fencing), Shahrbano Mansourian (Wushu), Melika Omidvand (Wushu), Hediyeh Kazemi (Kayak), Danial Sohrabi (Greco-Roman wrestling), Fatemeh Sa’adati (Karate), and Sara Bahmanyar (Karate) each won bronze medals in the sporting event.

With more than 12,000 competitors from 45 nations and territories, the 2022 Asian Games has more participants than the Olympics.

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