Abdul-Wahid Aziz
Iraqi weightlifter (1931–1982)
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Abdul-Wahid Aziz (Arabic: عبد الواحد عزيز) (1931 – 19 July 1982)[1] was an Iraqi weightlifter. He won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics, and, as of the 2024 Paris Olympics, remains the only person to win an Olympic medal for Iraq.[2][3]
| Olympic medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's weightlifting | ||
Representing  Iraq | ||
| Olympic Games | ||
 | 1960 Rome | -67.5 kg |
| World Championships | ||
| 1959 Warsaw | -67.5 kg |
Aziz was imprisoned twice for his leftist political views; once in 1963 during the Ramadan Revolution, and again in 1980 during the Saddam Hussein regime.[4]
