2008 Summer Olympics / Participant (Bahrain)

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With its participation in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Bahrain was represented at the Olympic Games for the 7th time. The first participation was in 1984 . 12 athletes competed in different sports. With the number of 12 athletes, the participation in 2008 is the largest in the Olympic history of Bahrain. Ruqaya al-Ghasara was the flag bearer at the Olympic opening ceremony.

Rashid Ramzi won the 1,500-meter run, winning Bahrain's first Olympic medal. However, on April 29, 2009, the National Olympic Committee of Bahrain confirmed that Ramzi had tested positive for the EPO compound CERA during follow-up tests on doping samples taken during the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games . CERA was also found in the B sample. On November 18, 2009, Ramzi was officially stripped of his gold medal.

Participants by sport

athletics

• Ruqaya al-Ghasara

  Women, 100 meter sprint , 200 meter sprint

• Maryam Yusuf Jamal
• Rashid Ramzi (Gold ) (disqualified)
• Youssef Saad camel
• Belal Mansoor Ali
• Tareq Mubarak Taher
• Adam Ismaeel Khamis
• Khalid Kamal

shoot

• Salman Zaman

  Men, 50 meter rifle

swim

• Sameera Al Bitar
• Omar Yousef Jassim

Individual evidence

1. ↑ NZZ : Ramzi the most prominent doping offender, November 18, 2009 (accessed November 27, 2009)

Web links

• Olympic team 2008 from Bahrain in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )