1952 Summer Olympics / Participant (Lebanon)

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The Lebanon participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in the Finnish capital Helsinki in part with nine male athletes in eight competitions in four sports.

After 1948 it was the second participation of a Lebanese team in the Summer Olympics .

Medalist

With one gained silver and bronze medals, the Lebanese team was ranked 32 in the medal count .

silver

Surname	sport	competition
Zakaria Chihab	Greco-Roman wrestling	Bantamweight

bronze

Surname	sport	competition
Khalil Taha	Greco-Roman wrestling	Welterweight

Participants by sport

Boxing

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Half welter weight (up to 63.5 kg)

• Sarkis Moussa

  Round 1: eliminated by Juan Curet from Puerto Rico

Weightlifting

→ Main article : 1952 Summer Olympics / Weightlifting

Middle weight (up to 75 kg)

• Moustafa Laham

  Final: 370 kg, 5th place

  Military press: 115 kg, 3rd place

  Tear: 112.5 kg, rank 4

  Push: 142.5 kg, rank 6

Wrestling

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Greek Roman

Bantam weight (up to 57 kg)

• Zakaria Chihab

  Final: 2nd place

  1st round: 3-0 win against Ion Popescu from Romania

  2nd round: 2-1 win against Maurice Fauré from France

  3rd round: 3-0 win against Arvo Kyllönen from Finland

  4th round: won without a fight

  5th round: 1: 2 defeat against Imre Hódos from Hungary

  6th round: 2-1 win against Artjom Terjan from the Soviet Union

Feather weight (up to 62 kg)

• Safi Taha

  Final: 7th place

  1st round: won without a fight

  2nd round: against Marco Antonio Girón of Guatemala won

  3rd round: 0-3 defeat against Yakiv Punkin from the Soviet Union

Welter weight (up to 73 kg)

• Khalil Taha

  Final: 3rd place

  1st round: 3-0 win against Henri Freylinger from Luxembourg

  2nd round: against René Chesneau from France enforced

  3rd round: 3-0 win against Gottfried Anglberger from Austria

  4th round: against Miklós Szilvási from Hungary lost

  5th round: 0-3 defeat against Gösta Andersson from Sweden

  6th round: won without a fight

Light heavyweight (up to 87 kg)

• Michel Skaff

  Final: 6th place

  1st round: 2-1 win against Ovidiu Forai from Romania

  2nd round: against Gyula Kovács from Hungary lost

  3rd round: against Karl-Erik Nilsson of Sweden lost

shoot

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Small caliber lying

• Abdullah Jaroudi, Sr.

  Final: 384 rings, rank 50

  1st round: 96 rings, rank 48

  2nd round: 96 rings, rank 49

  3rd round: 96 rings, rank 51

  4th round: 96 rings, rank 49

Free target gun

• Khalil Hilmi

  Final, 489 rings, rank 46

  1st round: 82 rings, 42nd place

  2nd round: 80 rings, rank 45

  3rd round: 78 rings, rank 48

  4th round: 84 rings, rank 34

  5th round: 87 rings, rank 29

  6th round: 78 rings, rank 47

• Abdel Sattar Tarabulsi

  Final, 517 rings, rank 29

  1st round: 87 rings, rank 22

  2nd round: 83 rings, rank 33

  3rd round: 86 rings, rank 29

  4th round: 87 rings, rank 21

  5th round: 84 rings, rank 36

  6th round: 90 rings, rank 15

Web links

• Helsinki 1952 - Official Site of the Olympic Movement (English) .
• Lebanese Olympic team 1952 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).