2004 Summer Olympics / Participant (Iraq)

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Iraqi participants at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens .

In February 2004, the IOC gave Iraq permission to take part in the Olympics for the first time since 1994. A total of 29 Iraqi athletes were registered. The 100-meter runner Alaa Hikmet was the only woman who started for her country. Iraq's last medal success at this point was 44 years ago. 1960 in Rome the weightlifter Abdul Wahid Aziz won bronze in the lightweight .

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Najah Salman Ali

Weightlifting

• Mohammed Ali Abdel Moneim

Soccer

• Abdul Wahab Abu Al Hail
• Ahmed Mahajid
• Ahmed Salah
• Bassim Abbas
• Emad Mohammed
• Haidar Abdul Amir
• Haidar Abdul-Razzaq
• Haidar Jabar
• Hawar Mulla Mohammed
• Mahdi Karim
• Naschat Akram
• Just Sabri
• Qusai Munir
• Razzaq Farhan
• Saad Attiya
• Salih Sadir
• Uday Talib
• Yunis Mahmud

Judo

• Hadir Lazame

athletics

Women

• Alaa Hikmet

Men

• Alaa Motar

swim

• Mohammed Abbas

Taekwondo

• Raad Abbas Rahseed

Web links

• Iraqi Olympic Team 2004 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )