Abdul Baser Wasiqi
Abdul Baser Wasiqi (born 12 July 1975[1]) is an Afghan athlete known for completing the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics despite suffering an injury before the event.
Wasiqi represented Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.[2] He injured his hamstring before the marathon, but took part nonetheless.[3] He completed the race despite his injury, limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, much slower than his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes.[4][5] He finished 111th and last, nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor. Wasiqi reached the stadium and found "workmen [...] preparing the arena for the closing ceremony" and "tarpaulin being laid across the running track".[6][7] Preparations were suspended long enough for Wasiqi to reach the finish line.
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- ↑ "The true spirit of the Games", Reuters, August 27, 2004
- ↑ "Taleban hope to get ban revoked", Reuters, August 17, 2000
- ↑ Olympic Track and Field, Brian Belval, 2007, Template:ISBN, p.24
- ↑ "Britain stuck in time warp as the world races further ahead", The Telegraph, August 5, 1996
- ↑ "Sibson could tell Sunderland about hidings to nothing", The Guardian, January 6, 2006
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