Khaled Al-Faraj ( ar, خالد الفرج ; born 19 January 1970) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler from

Syria Syria ( ar, سُورِيَا or سُورِيَة, translit=Sūriyā), officially the Syrian Arab Republic ( ar, الجمهورية العربية السورية, al-Jumhūrīyah al-ʻArabīyah as-Sūrīyah), is a Western Asian country loc ...

. He represented his country at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

as a light flyweight (-48 kg), finishing 5th, and then in

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and

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as a flyweight (-52 kg), finishing in 11th and 15th place, respectively. He is also the only Syrian to ever medal at the World Wrestling Championships, winning a bronze in

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...

Gävle Gävle () is a city in Sweden, the seat of Gävle Municipality and the capital of Gävleborg County. It had 77,586 inhabitants in 2020, which makes it the 13th most populated city in Sweden. It is the oldest city in the historical Norrland (Swede ...

at 54 kg.

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Sports-Reference profile

International Wrestling Database profile
Living people 1970 births Syrian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Syria Wrestlers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics World Wrestling Championships medalists Asian Games medalists in wrestling Wrestlers at the 1990 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 1994 Asian Games Wrestlers at the 1998 Asian Games Asian Games silver medalists for Syria Mediterranean Games gold medalists for Syria Competitors at the 1987 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1991 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1993 Mediterranean Games Competitors at the 1997 Mediterranean Games Medalists at the 1994 Asian Games Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling People from Idlib Governorate 20th-century Syrian people Arab Games gold medalists {{Syria-wrestling-bio-stub