By Farrokh Hesabi

Iran to send 40 athletes to Paris 2024

July 3, 2024 - 17:41

TEHRAN - With just 24 days until 2024 Olympic Games begins, Iran's 40-athlete team are ready to compete in 13 different sports.

The team was finalized with the addition of track and field athletes Hassan Taftian and Farzaneh Fasihi, who secured their spots based on their IAAF World Rankings.

This brings the final number of Iranian athletes to 29 male and 11 female, who will compete in wrestling, shooting, weightlifting, taekwondo, fencing, rowing, gymnastics, table tennis, cycling, archery, sport climbing, swimming and track and field.

Here is a full list of the Iranian athletes competing in each sport:

*Wrestling
Freestyle: Rahman Amouzad (65kg), Younes Emami (74kg), Hassan Yazdani (86kg), Amirali Azarpira (97kg), Amir Hossein Zare (125kg)

Greco-Roman: Mehdi Mohsennejad (60kg), Mohammadreza Geraei (67kg), Amin Kaviyaninejad (77kg), Alireza Mohamadi (87kg), Mohammadhadi Saravi (97kg), Amin Mirzazadeh (130kg)

*Shooting
Hanieh Rostamian (25m pistol), Shermineh Chehel Amirani  (10m air rifle), Fatemeh Amini (10m air rifle), Mohammad Beiranvand (Trap)

*Taekwondo
Mehran Barkhordari (-80kg), Nahid Kiani (-57kg), Mobina Nematzadeh (-49kg), Aryan Saadatmand (80+kg)

*Fencing
Ali Pakdaman, Mohammad Rahbari, Mohammad Fotouhi, Farzad Baher Arasbaran (Team and individual épée)

*Weightlifting
Mirmostafa Javadi (89kg), Ali Davoudi (109 kg and over)

*Rowing
Mahsa Javar (Lightweight double sculls), Zeynab Norouzi (Lightweight double sculls), Nabi Rezaei (Men's C1 1000m), Fatemeh Majlesi (Women's single sculls), Ali Aghamiri (Men's K1 1000m)

*Cycling
Ali Lalehzadeh (Road)

*Gymnastics
Mahdi Olfati

*Table tennis
Nima Alamian, Neda Shahsavari, Noshad Alamian

*Archery
Mobina Fallah (Recurve individual)

*Sport climbing
Reza Alipour

*Swimming
Samiar Abdoli

*Athletic
Hassan Taftian (Men's 100m), Farzaneh Fasihi (Women's 100m)

The 2024 Olympic Games will be held from July 26 to Aug. 11 in Paris. A total of 10,500 athletes from around the world are expected to compete in 329 events across 32 sports.

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