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Kuwait At The 2000 Summer Olympics
Kuwait competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. The nation won its first Olympic medal at these Games. 29 competitors, all men, took part in ten events in six sports. Medalists Athletics Men's 400m *Fawzi Al Shammari *# Round 1 – 46.38 (did not advance) Men's 4 × 400 m * Musad Al Azimi, Badar Al Fulaij, Mishal Al Harbi, Fawzi Al Shammari *# Round 1 – DQ (did not advance) Fencing One fencer represented Kuwait in 2000. ; Men's foil * Abdul Muhsen Ali Football Men's team competition ;Team Roster :* ( 1.) Shehab Kankune :* ( 2.) Naser Al-Omran :* ( 3.) Jamal Mubarak :* ( 4.) Bader Najem :* ( 5.) Abdullah Husan :* ( 6.) Nawaf Humaidan :* ( 7.) Adel Al-Anezi :* ( 8.) Naser Al-Othman :* ( 9.) Bashar Abdulaziz :* ( 10.) Faraj Saeed :* ( 11.) Abdullah Saihan :* ( 12.) Hamad Al-Tayyar :* ( 13.) Sadoun Salman :* ( 14.) Khalaf Al-Mutairi :* ( 15.) Saleh Al-Buraiki :* ( 16.) Yousef Zayed :* ( 17.) Esam Al-Kandari :* ( 18.) Nawaf Al-Khaldi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kuwait Olympic Committee
Kuwait Olympic Committee ( ar, اللجنة الأولمبية الكويتية, IOC code: KUW) is the National Olympic Committee representing Kuwait and organising the Kuwait Olympic team. 2010–2012 suspension The International Olympic Committee imposed a suspension on the committee with effect from 1 January 2010 due to government legislation that permits the state to interfere in elections of sporting organisations. The government had failed to meet the IOC's 31 December 2009 deadline for amending the legislation. As a result, Kuwait was barred from receiving IOC funding and its athletes and officials were banned from Olympic Games and Olympic meetings. At the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics, the 2010 Asian Games, and the 2011 Asian Winter Games, Kuwaiti athletes competed as independent athletes in a team named "Athletes from Kuwait" (code: IOC) under the Olympic Flag. On 14 July 2012 the suspension was lifted and Kuwaiti athletes were allowed to participate in the 2012 Su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |