Sports
See also: category:Iranian sportspeople- Abbas Jadidi, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Abdollah Movahed, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Adel Kolahkaj, footballer
- Alex Agase, American football player
- Ali Daei, football player, top international goalscorer, world record holder
- Ali Karimi, football player
- Ali Parvin, football player and coach
- Alireza Dabir, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Alireza Heidari, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Alireza Rezaei, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Amir Reza Khadem, Olympic Bronze Medalist wrestler
- Andre Agassi, tennis player – his father was Assyrian-Armenian
- Arash Miresmaili, Judo World Champion
- Aravane Rezaï, tennis player
- Behdad Salimi, weightlifter World Champion
- Ebrahim Javadi, wrestler, Olympic Bronze Medalist
- Ehsan Ghaemmaghami, chess grandmaster
- Ehsan Hadadi, discus thrower, Asian record holder
- Elshan Moradi, chess grandmaster
- Emamali Habibi Goudarzi, wrestler, first Iranian Olympic Gold Medalist, Melbourn 1956
- Emmanuel Agassi, boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics, father of Andre Agassi
- George Issabeg, Boxer at the 1948 and 1952 Olympics
- George Malek-Yonan, Iran's Champion of Champions in Track & Field and Pentathlon
- Ghasem Dehnavi, footballer
- Ghasem Hadadifar, footballer
- Ghasem Rezaei, wrestler
- Hossein Rezazadeh, weightlifter, double Olympic Champion Sydney 2000, Athen 2004,
- Javad Nekounam, football player
- Khodadad Azizi, football player
- Kianoush Rostami, weightlifter, World Champion
- Mahmoud Namjoo, weightlifter, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Mahyar Monshipour, World Super Bantamweight Boxing Champion
- Mansour Bahrami, tennis player
- Mansour Barzegar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Masoud Jokar, wrestler, Olympic Silver Medalist
- Mehdi Mahdavikia, football player
- Mohammad Ali Fardin, wrestler and actor
- Mohammad Khadem, wrestler
- Mohammad Mousavi, volleyball player
- Mohammad Nassiri, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Mohammad Reza Heidarian, futsal player
- Rahman Rezaei, football player
- Rasoul Khadem, Olympic Gold Medalist wrestler
- Ruhollah Bigdeli, football player
- Saeid Marouf, volleyball player
- Shadi Paridar, chess Woman Grandmaster
- Shawn Daivari, professional wrestler
- Shoura Osipov, Boxer at 1948 Olympics
- T.J. Houshmandzadeh, NFL player
- Vahid Hashemian, football player
- Yossef Karami, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic bronze Medalist
- Yu Darvish, Iranian-Japanese baseball player
world record holder
- Andranik Teymourian, football player
- Fereydoon Zandi, football player
- Gholamreza Takhti, wrestler, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Hadi Saei, Taekwondo World Champion, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Hossein Tavakoli, weightlifter, Olympic Gold Medalist
- Jaber Rouzbahani, basketball player
- Khosrow Vaziri, professional wrestler
- Leila Vaziri, swimmer, World Champion, world record holder
- Vahid Shamsaei, futsal player, top international futsal goalscorer
Read more about this topic: List Of Iranians
Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“Falling in love is the right adventure for those who dislike sports and travel.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“...I didn’t come to this with any particular cachet. I was just a person who grew up in the United States. And when I looked around at the people who were sportscasters, I thought they were just people who grew up in the United States, too. So I thought, Why can’t a woman do it? I just assumed everyone else would think it was a swell idea.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 85 (June 17, 1991)
“I looked so much like a guy you couldn’t tell if I was a boy or a girl. I had no hair, I wore guys’ clothes, I walked like a guy ... [ellipsis in source] I didn’t do anything right except sports. I was a social dropout, but sports was a way I could be acceptable to other kids and to my family.”
—Karen Logan (b. 1949)