1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (Afghanistan)
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After not participating in the 1992 Olympics, Afghanistan took part in the XXVI. 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta for the tenth time participated in the Summer Olympics. The delegation consisted of three athletes. At the opening ceremony, the boxer Mohammad Jawid Aman was the flag bearer of the country.
Participants by sport
Boxing
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Mohammad Jawid Aman
- Men, medium weight (- 71 kg) → not allowed to compete
- Aman was banned from the start after arriving late for the mandatory weigh-in and draw.
athletics
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Abdul Ghafoor
- Men, 100 m → eliminated as 8th of his run (12.20 s)
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Abdul Baser Wasiqi
- Men, marathon → 111. (4:24:17 h)
- Wasiqi injured a hamstring muscle shortly before the race, but dragged himself through the race, which he finished last, almost an hour and a half after the penultimate.
Web links
- Afghan Olympic team 1996 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
