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| Nationality | Ugandan | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 January 1980 | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
| Weight class | Super heavyweight | ||||||||||||||
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Syed Hussain Shah is a retired Pakistani boxer from Lyari, Karachi Pakistan, who won the bronze medal in the Middleweight division (71–75 kg) at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. This was the country's first ever Olympic boxing medal. He remains the only Pakistani sportsperson to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games in the last fifty-plus years. Only other Pakistani to ever win an individual Olympic medal is the wrestler Muhammad Bashir, who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics.
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