1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iraq)

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The Iraq took at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for the ninth time at Summer Olympics in part. The team consisted of three athletes, all of whom were male. They competed in three competitions in three sports. The youngest participant was the weightlifter Raed Ahmed at 29 years and 54 days, the oldest was the shooter Hassan Hassan at 33 years and 134 days. During the opening ceremony on July 19, 1996, Ahmed carried the flag of Iraq into the Olympic Stadium.

Attendees

Surname	Age	gender	sport	Result (s)
Raed Ahmed	29	male	Weightlifting	23rd place in heavyweight I
Hassan Hassan	33	male	Shooting sports	44th place with the air pistol
Hussain Jasim	29	male	athletics	41st place in the triple jump qualification

literature

• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 .
• Official report on the 1996 Summer Olympics. Part three. ( PDF file; 26.90 MB )

Web links

• Iraq at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )