Abdul-Wahid Aziz

Abdul-Wahid Aziz (Arabic: عبدالواحد عزيز) (1931 – 19 July 1982)^[1] was an Iraqi weightlifter. He won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics and became the only person to have won an Olympic medal for Iraq.^[2][3]

Abdul-Wahid Aziz

Personal information
Born	1931 Basra, Iraq
Died	19 July, 1982 Baghdad, Iraq
Height	174 cm (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	67.5 kg (149 lb)
Sport
Country	Iraq
Sport	Weightlifting

Olympic medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing  Iraq
Olympic Games
	1960 Rome	-67.5 kg
World Championships
	1959 Warsaw	-67.5 kg

Aziz was imprisoned twice for his leftist political views; once in 1963 during the Ramadan Revolution, and once in 1980 during the Saddam Hussein regime.^[4]