Abdul Baser Wasiqi

Abdul Baser Wasiqi (born 12 July 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]

References

  1. ↑ "The true spirit of the Games", Reuters, August 27, 2004
  2. 1 2 "Taleban hope to get ban revoked", Reuters, August 17, 2000
  3. ↑ Olympic Track and Field, Brian Belval, 2007, ISBN 1-4042-0971-9, p.24
  4. ↑ "Britain stuck in time warp as the world races further ahead", The Telegraph, August 5, 1996
  5. ↑ "Sibson could tell Sunderland about hidings to nothing", The Guardian, January 6, 2006
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