Medal table

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Wrestling	4	5	6	15
Taekwondo	1	1	0	2
Cycling	1	0	1	2
Weightlifting	0	0	2	2
Judo	0	0	1	1
Totals (5 entries)	6	6	10	22

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Ali Zangiabadi	Cycling (Track)	Men's 30 km points race
Gold	Ebrahim Ghaderi	Taekwondo	Men's bantamweight –58 kg
Gold	Majid Torkan	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 48 kg
Gold	Askari Mohammadian	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 57 kg
Gold	Alireza Soleimani	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 130 kg
Gold	Reza Soukhtehsaraei	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg
Silver	Ali Hajipour	Taekwondo	Men's lightweight –70 kg
Silver	Yaghoub Najafi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 52 kg
Silver	Allahmorad Zarini	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 74 kg
Silver	Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 90 kg
Silver	Abdolkarim Kakahaji	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 52 kg
Silver	Reza Andouz	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 74 kg
Bronze	Mehrdad Afsharian	Cycling (Track)	Men's 4 km individual pursuit
Bronze	Morteza Khodadadi	Judo	Men's –60 kg
Bronze	Darab Riahi	Weightlifting	Men's 90 kg
Bronze	Mehdi Rezvani	Weightlifting	Men's +110 kg
Bronze	Akbar Fallah	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 62 kg
Bronze	Ali Akbarnejad	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 68 kg
Bronze	Mohammad Hossein Mohebbi	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 82 kg
Bronze	Kazem Gholami	Wrestling	Men's freestyle 100 kg
Bronze	Ahad Javansalehi	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 62 kg
Bronze	Fereydoun Behnampour	Wrestling	Men's Greco-Roman 82 kg

Aquatics

Water polo

Main article: Water polo at the 1986 Asian Games

Men

Squad list	Round robin	Rank
Mehrzad Eidipour Abdolnasser Hardani Ali Moheb Farshad Molatalab Hossein Nasim Iraj Raoufazar Hossein Rezaei Davoud Rezasoltani Mehrdad Saleh Hamid Shabangiz Gholamreza Soleimani Ahmad Yaghouti Coach: Mansour Garousi	Kuwait W 6–4	4
	India W 15–4
	South Korea L 6–10
	Singapore D 8–8
	China L 3–21

Athletics

Men

• Mohammad Ali Mohammadi
• Mohammad Vojdanzdaeh

Cycling

Men

Athlete	Event	Final	Rank
Mehrdad Afsharian	4 km individual pursuit	4:55:38
Ali Zangiabadi	30 km points race	34 pts

• Ezzatollah Mazaheri
• Saeid Zareeian
• Siamak Safarzadeh
• Mehrdad Safarzadeh
• Abolghasem Rahmanian
• Mohammad Reza Bajoul

Football

Men

Squad list	Preliminary round		Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final	Rank
	Group D	Rank
Ahmad Sajjadi Asghar Hajiloo Shahin Bayani Mohammad Panjali Shahrokh Bayani Majid Namjoo-Motlagh Nasser Mohammadkhani Zia Arabshahi Mehdi Abtahi Karim Bavi Hamid Derakhshan Gholamreza Fathabadi Farshad Pious Abdolali Changiz Morteza Yekkeh Hossein Mesgar Saravi Majid Rezaei Morteza Fonounizadeh Siamak Rahimpour Sirous Ghayeghran Coach: Parviz Dehdari	Japan W 2–0	2 Q	South Korea L 1–1, 4–5 Pen	Did not advance		5
	Bangladesh W 4–0
	Kuwait L 0–1
	Nepal W 6–0

Handball

Men

Squad list	Round robin	Rank
Ghasem Shaabanpour Majid Soleimani Hossein Esmaeilzadeh Masoud Fatehi Abolfazl Ahmadi Mohammad Reza Garshasebi Ezzatollah Razmgar Mostafa Baghal Ali Souri Keivan Sadeghi Mohammad Reza Hosseinzadeh Asadollah Reihani Coach: Khosro Nassiri	Japan L 16–38	5
	China L 11–35
	Kuwait L 24–46
	South Korea L 17–48
	Hong Kong W 22–18

Judo

Men

Athlete	Event	Rank
Morteza Khodadadi	–60 kg

• Jahangir Ghourkhanji
• Mehdi Seilpour
• Azim Ganji

Taekwondo

Men

Athlete	Event	Semifinal	Final	Rank
Manouchehr Nazari	Flyweight –54 kg	Did not advance		EL
Ebrahim Ghaderi	Bantamweight –58 kg	Ghachhe (NEP) W	Rozak (INA) W
Mohammad Ali Ghaderi	Featherweight –64 kg	Did not advance		EL
Ali Hajipour	Lightweight –70 kg	Al-Fadhel (KUW) W	? (KOR) L
Hassan Zahedi	Welterweight –76 kg	Did not advance		EL

Weightlifting

Men

Athlete	Event	Snatch	Clean & Jerk	Total	Rank
Samad Montazeri	52 kg	100.0	120.0	220.0	4
Abbas Talebi	67.5 kg	127.5	160.0	287.5	5
Ardeshir Bahmanyar	82.5 kg	137.5	175.0	312.5	4
Rasoul Javidasa	82.5 kg	No mark	—	—	—
Abdollah Fatemi	90 kg	150.0	180.0	330.0	4
Darab Riahi	90 kg	155.0	175.0	330.0
Siamak Bajand	100 kg	150.0	No mark	—	—
Ali Moradi	100 kg	157.5	185.0	342.5	6
Aziz Alihosseini	110 kg	147.5	165.0	312.5	7
Mehdi Rezvani	+110 kg	155.0	190.0	345.0

Wrestling

Men's freestyle

Athlete	Event	Final	Rank
Majid Torkan	48 kg	Gao (CHN) W 12–0
Yaghoub Najafi	52 kg	Sato (JPN) L Fall
Askari Mohammadian	57 kg	Kong (KOR) W
Akbar Fallah	62 kg	3rd place match  Rohtas (IND) W 12–1
Ali Akbarnejad	68 kg	3rd place match  Satyawan (IND) W
Allahmorad Zarini	74 kg	Han (KOR) L
Mohammad Hossein Mohebbi	82 kg	3rd place match  Feng (CHN) W 9–1
Mohammad Hassan Mohebbi	90 kg	Majeed (PAK) L
Kazem Gholami	100 kg	3rd place match  Li (CHN) W
Alireza Soleimani	130 kg	Jassem (IRQ) W

Men's Greco-Roman

Athlete	Event	Final	Rank
Morteza Papinia	48 kg	3rd place match  Saito (JPN) L 6–13	4
Abdolkarim Kakahaji	52 kg	Miyahara (JPN) L 4–8
Hossein Niknejad	57 kg	Did not advance	5
Ahad Javansalehi	62 kg	3rd place match  Zhao (CHN) W
Abdollah Chamangoli	68 kg	3rd place match  A (CHN) L	4
Reza Andouz	74 kg	Kim (KOR) L
Fereydoun Behnampour	82 kg	3rd place match  Shihab (IRQ) W
Hassan Babak	90 kg	3rd place match  Eom (KOR) L	4
Mohammad Azizian	100 kg	Did not advance	6
Reza Soukhtehsaraei	130 kg	Ando (JPN) W 4–0