1996 Summer Olympics / Participant (Yemen)
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The Yemen participated in the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta for the second time at Summer Olympics in part. The team consisted of four male athletes. They started in four competitions in two sports. The youngest participant was the athlete Saeed Basweidan at 19 years and 33 days, the oldest was Mohamed Al-Saadi at 28 years and 217 days, who also started in athletics. The wrestler Abdullah Al-Izani carried the flag of Yemen into the Olympic Stadium during the opening ceremony on July 19, 1996.
Attendees
| Surname | Age | gender | sport | Result (s) |
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| Abdullah Al-Izani | 27 | male | Wrestling | 19th place in the light flyweight Greco-Roman |
| Mohamed Al-Saadi | 28 | male | athletics | 101st place in the marathon |
| Anwar Mohamed Ali | 25th | male | athletics | 8th place in the seventh heat over 400 meters |
| Saeed Basweidan | 19th | male | athletics | 6th place in the eighth preliminary run over 800 meters |
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
- Yemen at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
