Nadeem Iqbal
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| Born | 3 April 1983 (age 43) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Cross-country skiing | ||||||||||||||
| Now coaching | Jagdish Singh | ||||||||||||||
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Nadeem Iqbal (born 3 April 1983) is an Indian cross-country skier and military officer. He was born in Rajouri a district in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir in India.
Iqbal competed for India at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 15 kilometre classical race.[1][2][3] Iqbal became the first athlete from Jammu and Kashmir to qualify for the Winter Olympics.[4] Iqbal finished the race in 85th position (out of 92 competitors), nearly 17 minutes behind the winner Dario Cologna of Switzerland.[5]