Abdul Baser Wasiqi (born July 12, 1975) is an Afghan athlete.
Wasiqi represented Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He injured his leg (hamstring muscle) before the marathon, but took part nonetheless.[1] He completed the race despite his injury, after limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, well short of his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes.[2][3] 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".[4][5] Preparations were suspended long enough for Baser to reach the finish line.
Wasiqi was the only Afghan competitor at the 1996 Games.[2]
He is the president and CEO of Handsonsite, which he co-founded in 1993. Educated with an AA in Political Science 1999, a B.S. in Organizational Leadership Degree, he majored in Political Science and minored in Pre-Law 2002. He received his Masters degree in Organizational Leadership in Political Science and minored in Pre-Law 2004. He is currently working on his Jurist Doctoral Degree. Mr. Wasiqi is a member of the AFG National Olympic committee, and the International Olympic Federation in Lausanne Switzerland, to promote sport and to create a better and a safer leadership aspects for the traumatize children in the third world countries. Mr. Wasiqi is a member of 2 Non profit Organizations in Germany and 3 Non for Profit Organizations in the District of Columbia. Mr. Wasiqi’s hobbies are classical music, golf, cooking, traveling, and running a marathon, spending his time with his family and friends. Mr. Wasiqi favorite cities are Montreal, Hamburg, Berlin, Monaco, and Sydney. Mr. Wasiqi lived in Saudi Arabia; spend most of his teenage years in Germany, and after the Olympics in the US. Future goals privet and personal for Mr. Wasiqi are to run for a government office and to build the bridge of understanding between the United States, Europe and the Eastern countries.