Abdul Baser Wasiqi (born 12 July 1975) is an Afghan athlete known for completing the marathon at the 1996 Summer Olympics despite suffering an injury before the event.
Wasiqi represented Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He injured his hamstring before the marathon, but took part nonetheless."The true spirit of the Games", Reuters, August 27, 2004 He completed the race despite his injury, limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, much slower than his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes."Taleban hope to get ban revoked", Reuters, August 17, 2000Olympic Track and Field, Brian Belval, 2007, , p.24 He finished 111th and last, nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor. Wasiqi reached the stadium and found "workmen [...] preparing the arena for the closing ceremony" and "tarpaulin being laid across the running track"."Britain stuck in time warp as the world races further ahead", The Telegraph, August 5, 1996"Sibson could tell Sunderland about hidings to nothing", The Guardian, January 6, 2006 Preparations were suspended long enough for Wasiqi to reach the finish line.
References
External links Abdul Baser Wasiqi at Olympedia