Dambar Singh Kuwar (born 1959) is a

Nepal Nepal (; ne, नेपाल ), formerly the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal ( ne, सङ्घीय लोकतान्त्रिक गणतन्त्र नेपाल ), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is mai ...

ese

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

athlete who represented Nepal at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the men's

110 metres hurdles The 110 metres hurdles, or 110-metre hurdles, is a hurdling track and field event for men. It is included in the athletics programme at the Summer Olympic Games. The female counterpart is the 100 metres hurdles. As part of a racing event, ten hur ...

400 metres hurdles The 400 metres hurdles is a track and field hurdling event. The event has been on the Olympic athletics programme since 1900 for men and since 1984 for women. On a standard outdoor track, 400 metres is the length of the inside lane, once a ...

and

decathlon The decathlon is a combined event in Athletics (sport), athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek language, Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ...

. He was eliminated in the preliminaries of both hurdling events but set a personal best time of 56.80 seconds in the 400m hurdles. In the decathlon, Kuwar amassed 5339 points to finish 34th and last of the event, 1,578 points behind the penultimate competitor, South Korea's Lee Gwang-Ik. Affiliated to the

Nepalese Army The Nepali Army ( ne, नेपाली सेना, translit=Nēpālī Sēnā), technically the Gorkhali Army ( ne, गोरखाली सेना, translit=Gōrakhālī Sēnā, label=none; see ''Gorkhas''), is the land service branch ...

, Kuwar set his lifetime best in the decathlon at a meet in

Pokhara Pokhara ( ne, पोखरा, ) is a metropolis, metropolitan city in Nepal, which serves as the capital of Gandaki Province. It is the List of cities in Nepal, second most populous city of Nepal after Kathmandu, with 518,452 inhabitants living ...

, in September 1987, totaling 5355 points. He clocked a hand-timed personal best of 15.6 seconds over 110 metres hurdles in 1990. During his competitive career, Kuwar was 168 cm tall and weighed 57 kg.

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* Living people 1959 births Nepalese male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Nepal 20th-century Nepalese people {{Nepal-athletics-bio-stub