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Afghanistan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The Central Asian nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona.
Shin Joon-Sup is a former South Korean middleweight amateur boxer and Olympic Gold Medalist.
Maselino Francis Masoe is a retired Samoan boxer who represented American Samoa at three Olympics starting with the 1988 Summer Olympics. As a professional, Masoe made history becoming the first Samoan boxer to win a major world title, defeating Kenyan born Evans Ashira on May 1, 2004 for the regular WBA world middleweight crown via second round Technical Knockout. He is the brother of rugby player Chris Masoe. Another brother, Mika, also represented American Samoa in boxing at the 1988 and 1992 Olympics.
Iran participated in the 1958 Asian Games held in the capital city of Tokyo, Japan. This country is ranked 4th with 7 gold medals in this edition of the Asiad.
Haider Ali is a Pakistani boxer. He is a Commonwealth Games gold medalist.
Kim Ki-soo was a South Korean southpaw boxer at middleweight. He was South Korea's first world boxing champion.
Abbos Atoyev is an Uzbek amateur boxer, best known for winning gold in the light heavyweight competition at the 2007 World Championships and at middleweight in 2009. He also won a bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics. He fights southpaw and was born in the village of Qulkhatib of Vabkent District of Bukhara Province.
Afghanistan has competed in 14 Summer Games. They have never appeared in any Winter Games.
Mohamed Kheir Tarabulsi was an amateur Lebanese weightlifter. At the 1972 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal in the men's Middleweight category.
Artem Valeryevich Levin, also known as Artem "The Lion" Levin, is a Russian light heavyweight Muay Thai kickboxer fighting out of Prokopyevsk. He is the current World Muay Thai Council (WMC) Intercontinental and EMF European Muay Thai champion. He is the former Glory Middleweight Champion. As of 1 April 2019, he is ranked the #6 middleweight in the world by Combat Press.
Abrar Hussain was professional Pakistani welterweight and Light-middleweight boxer. Hussain represented Pakistan at the 1984, 1988, and 1992 Summer Olympics. In 1985 South Asian Games, he won a Gold medal for Pakistan in Dhaka. In 1990 Asian Games, Hussain secured Gold medal in boxing for Pakistan. He also represented his country at the 1990 Commonwealth Games.
Afghanistan participated in the 2002 Asian Games held in Busan, South Korea, from September 29 to October 14, 2002. This marked Afghanistan's return to international sporting events after the fall of the Taliban regime. The Afghan delegation consisted of 12 officials and 44 competitors participating in seven different sports. The Afghanistan national football team played its first international match since the 1984 AFC Asian Cup qualification phase. An English teacher from Kabul, Roia Zamani, won a bronze medal in the 72 kg middleweight class of taekwondo without winning a single match. Zamani was the only medalist from the Afghan side and the first Afghan medalist in 20 years. None of the remaining athletes advanced past the qualifying stages, and as such did not win any medals.
Anvar Berdiev is an Uzbek professional footballer. He currently plays for Andijan.
Christopher Camat is a retired amateur Filipino-American boxer. He captured two bronze medals in the middleweight division at the Southeast Asian Games, and later represented the Philippines at the 2004 Summer Olympics. Throughout his sporting career, Camat has been training as an elite athlete for Team Caltex Boxing Club under his head coach and mentor Nolito Velasco.
The men's middleweight event at the 2002 Asian Games took place from 5 to 13 October 2002 at Masan Gymnasium, Masan, South Korea.
The men's light middleweight event at the 2002 Asian Games took place from 4 to 13 October 2002 at Masan Gymnasium, Masan, South Korea.
Tsend-Ayuushiin Ochirbat is a Mongolian judoka, who competed in the men's middleweight category. He held the 2005 Mongolian senior title in his own division, picked up a total of six medals in his career, including a silver from the 2002 Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, and represented his nation Mongolia in two editions of the Olympic Games.
Iraq competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's fourteenth appearance at the Summer Olympic Games since its debut in 1948.
The boxing competitions at the 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur were held at MATRADE Exhibition and Convention Centre in Segambut.
Ikram is a unisex given name and surname.
