According to Imna news agency, the Paris Olympics will be held with the participation of 10,500 athletes in 38 disciplines, and Iran will enter the Paris Olympics with 40 quotas in 13 disciplines.
Failed fields
Football (Omid national team), basketball, volleyball and handball are among the disciplines in which no athlete or team from Iran has succeeded in getting a quota. Iran has participated in the 1900 Olympics and since 1948 until now in all periods except for the 1980 and 1984 Olympic Games, which was the largest in the Tokyo Olympics with 65 athletes after the 1976 Montreal Olympics with 86 athletes. It was the Olympic caravan of Iran.
The national team of our country was represented in the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 in shooting, karate, taekwondo, athletics, basketball, volleyball, badminton, archery, table tennis, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, sailing, swimming, cycling and boxing. A total of seven medals in these competitions, i.e. three gold, two silver and two bronze medals, left this competition.
Iran’s medalists in the last Olympics
In the Tokyo Olympics, Javad Foroughi won gold medals in shooting, Mohammad Reza Garain in wrestling and Sajjad Ganjzadeh in karate, followed by Ali Davoudi in weightlifting and Hassan Yazdani in wrestling won silver medals, as well as Mohammad Hadi Saravi and Amir Hossein Zare won a bronze medal in wrestling.
Iranian representatives at the Paris Olympics
The national team of our country is represented at the Paris Olympics in the disciplines of shooting, taekwondo, athletics, archery, table tennis, wrestling, weightlifting, fencing, sailing, swimming, cycling, rock climbing, and gymnastics, as well as representing our country at the beach handball show of the World Handball Federation. He will participate in the sidelines of the Paris Olympic Games alongside the world’s beach handball stars.
Iran’s flag bearers in the Paris Olympics
For the third time in table tennis, Neda Shahsawari was able to get a quota to participate in the Olympics, and Mehdi Elfati is the third person who made Iranian gymnastics an Olympic quota. Iranian sailing will be the flag bearer of Iran at the closing ceremony.
Rewards for medal winners at the Paris Olympics
A four-fold increase in the reward of the medal winners in the Paris Summer Olympic Games compared to the previous period will be one of the positive events of this competition, and in this way, the gold, silver and bronze medalists in this period of the games will receive eight, four and two billion tomans respectively.
Arin Salimi was born on December 25, 2002 from Kermanshah city. He won the fourth and last Olympic quota for Iranian Taekwondo during the Olympic taekwondo competition in Asia, which was held in China at the weight of 80+ kg by reaching the finals.
Full preparation for the Olympics
Arian Salimi, Olympic taekwondo athlete of our country In relation to his participation in the Paris Olympics, he told Imna reporter: Six people were able to receive a quota for Taekwondo, and they are generally selected through the ranking system (five people) and Grand Slam competitions (one person). system in the continental competitions and thanks to Mehran, we managed to get the license to participate in the Paris Olympics through the Grand Slam competitions.
He adds: I am grateful to all the people who support me because I am in a good condition. After winning the quota for the Asian Championship, an intensive training camp was planned for us, and we managed to get a good result with our good performance. I also participated in the Turkish tournament and the conditions were good there as well, after that I returned to training. A few days ago, I participated in a 12-day training camp held in France, and after that I have a preparation camp until the day of the Olympics. I have a good level of preparation for competitions and all conditions are good and we should have more mental training for competitions.
Our country’s Taekwondo Olympian states: There are deficiencies and we do not have some of the equipment and facilities we need available, but the authorities are trying to provide us with the best conditions even though there are problems and we are also trying to improve ourselves. adapt to the conditions.
He states: the conditions of the federation’s support are good and they didn’t spare any help, the results we get are the result of a team’s performance and I hope we will continue the same process with empathy, but still, it is not enough to provide anything for an Olympian. .
The results of the Olympics will change the way others look
Salimi states: The Olympics is the most important sports event, and perhaps many people think that the importance of various football events is more important, but the Olympics is the most important event in the world, and even being in such an event is very important. The more athletes from Iran participate in these competitions, the better it is to show our success in sports and that field, because the view of other countries towards our country is not good, with every move made by each person in competitions, on the thoughts of others about It affects the country.
He continues: The quotas for the upcoming Olympic Games have ended. It is very difficult to get a quota in these competitions and I wish success to the Olympians of our country, I also wish success to the people who did not succeed in participating in these competitions for any reason and I hope we will see their strong presence in the future Olympics.
The taekwondo Olympic athlete of our country explains: We achieved the training and goals we had, but it is not possible to predict the result of winning the competition and it will be determined on the day of the competition. We tried our best and there have been some incidents, setbacks and injuries, but everything is going well. I hope with God’s help I can be my true self on that day. I think about the greatness of the matches and my performance, not about the result, I have analyzed my opponents and I will show up against them with full preparation.
We will get results according to our efforts
He points out: the result of the Iranian caravan also depends on the efforts of the athletes of different disciplines, we will definitely get results from the hosts of our efforts, I hope everything will go as we want.
Salimi says: I thank God for always being my supporter, then I would like to thank my family, professors and the technical staff of the national teams who support me a lot and helped me a lot in this way, I hope to make up for the lack of favors given to them. and in the end, I ask the dear people of our country to make Iran and Iranians proud by sending their positive energies to achieve the best results.
Ali Heydarian was born on July 10, 2003 in Urmia city, because of winning the third place and the first historical world handball medal by the national junior beach handball team in the world junior beach handball tournament in Greece and winning the title of the top scorer of this tournament as the representative of our country and the youngest player. , will be present in this tournament.
Three men’s teams and three women’s star teams, plus the French national men’s and women’s national teams, will play beach handball games on three days: Saturday 27th, Sunday 28th and Monday 29th July 2024 – in Curtil, only 20 kilometers from the Olympic Stadium. 64 players, 32 women and 33 men, from 18 countries were selected for beach handball.
Beach handball is one of the next Olympic disciplines
Ali Heydarian, our country’s beach handball Olympic athlete Regarding his participation in the Paris Olympics, Imna told the reporter: Our country’s national beach handball team won the world title for the first time in the history of handball in the 2022 tournament in Greece and won the third title of that tournament. I was selected as the best player in that tournament and a few months ago, the World Handball Federation announced the best players in the world to participate in the French Olympics, and my name was among these names. In this period, beach handball will be held as a demonstration, but from the next period, beach handball will be held officially and with the competition of all teams in these tournaments.
He adds: I am well prepared to participate in these competitions due to my participation in the Premier League and then in the national youth team camps.
Our country’s beach handball Olympic athlete states: One of the shortcomings that I can point to is the lack of media advertising, which prevents athletes from being motivated. Also, the non-holding of regular beach handball competitions in our country means that powerful sponsors do not come to this field.
He explains: Financial support and access to the best facilities in the world are the expectations of every athlete because it frees the athlete’s mind from any worries except sports to be a good representative in the world communities.
Hoping to make Iran proud
Heydarian states: Participation in such tournaments creates experience and learning techniques of the world for each person and creates motivation, self-confidence and national pride in the athlete and his country.
He points out: I hope that the brilliance of our caravan will be more than in previous periods, and by winning colorful medals, they will make people happy and make the name of Iran shine.
Samyar Abdoli was born on December 4, 2001, from Karaj, he will go to Paris Olympics 2024 after obtaining a universality quota, Samyar Abdoli will go to Paris with a given quota due to his higher swimming points (fina points) in the 100m breaststroke event. In May of this year, Abdulli managed to set a record in the 100-meter freestyle individual event of the German championship held in Berlin with a time of 00:50.34. Iranian swimmers won.
Kyle Chalmers, Matthew Richards, Duncan Scott, Jack Alexi, Alessandro Merci, Danas Rapchis, Diego Ribeiro and David Popovich are the women’s 100m freestyle powers at the Paris Olympics and are among his opponents.
wild card; The share of the best swimmer of a country
Samyar Abdoli, Olympic swimming athlete of our country Regarding his participation in the Paris Olympic Games, Imna told the reporter: The World Swimming Federation had given swimmers the opportunity from March of 1401 to mid-July of this year to swim in the competitions approved by them and gain entry, and the countries that succeeded Those who did not get A or B entrance were given a wild card so that they could be represented in the Olympics, and this quota was given to the best fina point in that country, and I managed to get a quota in the 100m freestyle.
He adds: I have a good and favorable preparation and I hope that I can break Iran’s record again. I also hope that the support of this medal-rich sport will increase.
Our country’s Olympic swimming athlete says: I don’t have a chance to win a medal, but I hope that I can have a strong presence in these competitions and I can bring Iran’s swimming closer to the world’s first swimming powers, because this will make this generation and the next generation To be encouraged to reach the next Olympics.
He states: In record sports, the performances are clear and we cannot expect to increase the record by three or four seconds, and this is not possible.
The need to increase the ceiling of contracts
Abdoli states: I hope that the contracts in the swimming league of our country will increase because the sums are not enough at all, even for national swimmers, they are not high sums. This issue makes the swimmers unable to cover their expenses after a while and causes them to abandon this discipline. In all cities, we should also provide standard swimming pools to the delegations and teams.
He notes: I hope I can swim under 50 seconds for the first time and I think this will be an important event and the beginning of a leap for Iranian swimming.
Our country’s Olympic swimming athlete emphasizes: I hope all the Iranian caravans will return from the Paris Olympic Games with the best results and satisfied with their performance.
According to Imna, the 33rd Olympic Games will be held from the 5th to the 21st of August ۱۴۰۳ (July 26 to August 11, 2024) will be held in Paris, where the national team of our country will go to this competition with 124 people after receiving 40 quotas in 13 disciplines and including the technical and media staff along with this caravan. The representatives of our country stated that despite all the problems, the federations provided them with good equipment, but they wanted more support from higher authorities and other people, and they believed that with more support, they could be among the medalists of the Olympics and other tournaments. .
Report by Mahsa Zain El Abdini, IMNA reporter
