1960 Summer Olympics / Participant (Lebanon)

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The Lebanon participated in the 1960 Summer Olympics in the Italian capital Rome part of a delegation of 19 male athletes in 15 competitions in six sports.

No medals could be won. The youngest athlete was the diver Federico Andrade (22 years and 176 days), the oldest athlete was the marksman José María Vallsera (46 years and 215 days). It was the country’s third Summer Olympics participation .

Participants by sport

fencing

Epee team

• Results

  Round one: eliminated in group three (third place), no match won - two lost, 16 duels won - 16 lost

• team

  Hassan El-Said

  Ibrahim Osman

  Mohamed Ramadan

  Michel Saykali

singles

• Ibrahim Osman
  • Sword

  Round one: qualified for the next round in group eleven (second place), won four duels - lost two, scored 26 hits - suffered 25

  3: 5 defeat against Yves Dreyfus from France

  5: 4 win against Roger Theisen from Luxembourg

  5: 3 win against Richard Stone from Australia

  5: 4 victory against Michel Steininger from Switzerland

  5: 4 win against Pedro Cabrera from Spain

  3: 5 loss to Bill Hoskyns from Great Britain

  Round two: eliminated in group six (sixth place), won one duel - lost four, scored 16 hits - suffered 24

  3: 5 defeat against Janusz Kurczab from Poland

  3: 5 loss to Bill Hoskyns from Great Britain

  2: 5 defeat against Armand Mouyal from France

  3: 5 defeat against Jules Amez-Droz from Switzerland

  5: 4 victory against Adalbert Gurath from Romania

• Mohamed Ramadan
  • Sword

  Round one: eliminated in group nine (fourth place), won two duels - lost three, scored 17 hits - suffered 20

  2: 5 defeat against Alberto Balestrini from Argentina

  3: 5 defeat against Guram Kostawa from the Soviet Union

  2: 5 defeat against Rolf Wiik from Finland

  5: 2 win against Andreas Soeratman from Indonesia

  5: 3 victory against Jesús Díez from Spain

• Michel Saykali
  • Sword

  Round one: eliminated in group four (fourth place), won a duel - lost three, scored eleven hits - suffered 18

  3: 5 defeat against István Kausz from Hungary

  1: 5 loss to Giovanni Battista Breda from Italy

  2: 5 loss to John Pelling from Great Britain

  5-3 win against Manuel Martínez from Spain

Weightlifting

• Salah Chammah
  • Featherweight

  Final: 307.5 kg, 14th place

  Military press: 92.5 kg, 13th place

  Tear: 97.5 kg, tenth place

  Push: 117.5 kg, rank 16

• Mohamed Mourtada
  • medium weight

  Final: 360.0 kg, rank 14

  Military press: 110.0 kg, 15th place

  Tear: 110.0 kg, twelfth place

  Push: 140.0 kg, twelfth place

athletics

• Salem El-Jisr
  • Shot put

  Qualifying round: 13.82 meters, 23rd place, not qualified for the final

  Try one: 13.34 meters

  Trial two: 13.82 meters

  Trial three: 13.50 meters

Wrestling

Freestyle

• Nazem Amin
  • lightweight

  16th place, eliminated after round three with nine minus points

  Round one: points win against Kenny Stephenson from Great Britain , a minus point

  Round two: shoulder defeat against Roger Bielle from France , five minus points

  Round three: Shoulders defeat against Moustafa Tajiki from Iran , nine minus points

Greco-Roman

• Ibrahim Awariki
  • lightweight

  Rank 13, eliminated after round three with six minus points

  Round one: point defeat against Dimitar Stojanow from Bulgaria , three minus points

  Round two: points victory against Mohamed Moukrim Ben Mansour from Morocco , four minus points

  Round three: Tie against Mitsuharu Kitamura from Japan , six minus points

• Hicham Ido
  • Welterweight

  Rank 25, eliminated after round two with eight minus points

  Round one: shoulder defeat against Hans-Jörg Hirschbühl from Switzerland , four minus points

  Round two: shoulder defeat against Günther Maritschnigg from Germany , eight minus points

• Elie Naasan
  • Featherweight

  Eleventh place, eliminated after round three with six minus points

  Round one: points victory against Joseph Schmid from Switzerland , a minus point

  Round two: Draw against Vojtech Tóth from Czechoslovakia , three minus points

  Round three: points defeat against Mihai Şulţ from Romania , six minus points

• Michel Nakouzi
  • Bantamweight

  Ninth place, eliminated after round four with six minus points

  Round one: points victory against Santiago Cañete from Spain , a minus point

  Round two: Victory on points against Gilbert Dubier from France , two minus points

  Round three: won against Ewald Tauer from Germany on points, three minus points

  Round four: points defeat against Oleg Nikolajewitsch Karawajew from the Soviet Union , six minus points

• Yacoub Romanos
  • medium weight

  Seventh place, eliminated after round four with seven minus points

  Round one: victory against Helmut Längle from Austria , zero minus points

  Round two: points victory against Charles Berthoud from Switzerland , a minus point

  Round three: Tie against Russell Camilleri from the United States of America , three minus point

  Round four: shoulder defeat against Nikolai Chuchalow from the Soviet Union , seven minus point

shoot

• Abdullah Jaroudi
  • Small caliber lying

  Qualification: Group one, 377 points, rank 35, overall rank 64, not qualified for the final

  Round one: 95 points, 19th place

  Round two: 95 points, 29th place

  Round three: 91 points, 40th place

  Round four: 96 points, 22nd place

• Elias Salhab
  • Clay pigeon shooting

  Qualification: 89 points, rank 17, qualified for the final

  Final: 182 points, tenth place

• Maurice Tabet
  • Clay pigeon shooting

  Qualification: 94 points, fourth place, qualified for the final

  Final: 176 points, rank 24

sailing

Flying Dutchman

• Results

  Final:

  Race one: 130 points, 2:50:26 hours, 29th place

  Race two: 177 points, 2:37:44 hours, 26th place

  Race three: 101 points, race not finished (DNF)

  Race four: zero points, race not finished (DNF)

  Race five: did not participate in the competition

  Race six: did not participate in the competition

  Race seven: did not participate in the competition

• team

  Antoine Sader

  Fred Zebouni

singles

• Pierre Arbaji
  • Finn dinghy

  Final: 834 points, rank 35

  Race one: 140 points, 1:57:58 hours, 32nd place

  Race two: 140 points, 2:16:40 hours, 32nd place

  Race three: 154 points, 1:53:50 hours, 31st place

  Race four: 101 points, 2:29:37 hours, 35th place

  Race five: 198 points, 1:58:42 hours, 28th place

  Race six: 101 points, race not finished (DNF)

Web links

• Lebanese Olympic team 1960 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )