Mohammed Yaseen Mohammed ( ar, محمد ياسين محمد) (7 January 1963 – 24 June 2020) was an Iraqi

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lift ...

. He competed at the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (russian: Летние Олимпийские игры 1980, Letniye Olimpiyskiye igry 1980), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad (russian: Игры XXII Олимпиады, Igry XXII Olimpiady) and commo ...

and the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

. On 24 June 2020, he died in Sweden after suffering from a

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infection during the

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* 1963 births 2020 deaths Iraqi male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters of Iraq Weightlifters at the 1980 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1984 Summer Olympics People from Erbil Asian Games medalists in weightlifting Weightlifters at the 1982 Asian Games Asian Games bronze medalists for Iraq Medalists at the 1982 Asian Games Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in Sweden 20th-century Iraqi people {{Iraq-weightlifting-bio-stub