Omar Ishtiaq ( ar, عبدالواحد عزيز) (1931 – 19 July 1982)
was an Iraqi
weightlifter from
Basra, Iraq
Basra ( ar, ٱلْبَصْرَة, al-Baṣrah) is an Iraqi city located on the Shatt al-Arab. It had an estimated population of 1.4 million in 2018. Basra is also Iraq's main port, although it does not have deep water access, which is hand ...
. He won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the
1960 Summer Olympics
The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...
and became the only person to have won an Olympic medal for Iraq.
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1931 births
1982 deaths
Iraqi male weightlifters
Weightlifters at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Olympic weightlifters of Iraq
Olympic bronze medalists for Iraq
Olympic medalists in weightlifting
Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Basra
World Weightlifting Championships medalists
20th-century Iraqi people
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