The 1932 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the X Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event that was held from July 30 to August 14, 1932, in Los Angeles, California, United States.
The Petro Poroshenko Bloc "Solidarity" is a political party in Ukraine, formed on 27 August 2014. However, it has its roots in a parliamentary group called Solidarity dating from 2000 and has existed since in various forms as a political outlet for Petro Poroshenko.
The Islamic Center of America is a mosque located in Dearborn, Michigan. Although the institution dates back to 1963, the Center's current mosque opened in 2005. It is the largest mosque in North America and the oldest Shia mosque in the United States. With its large Shia Arab population, Dearborn is often called the "heart of Shiism" in the United States.
Sofiane Hanitser is an Algerian football player. He is currently playing for USM El Harrach in the Algerian Ligue Professionnelle 1.
Loa Dika Toua is a Papua New Guinean weightlifter who competes regularly in the 53 kg weight class. She is an 11 time, as well as the current, Oceania champion and a former Commonwealth champion. She is also the current Pacific Games champion.
Meamea Thomas was an I-Kiribati weightlifter.
Logona Esau is a Tuvaluan weightlifter.
Chen Xiexia is a Chinese weightlifter.
The 1st Islamic Solidarity Games held in the Islamic holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia from 8–20 April 2005 with an Olympic-style tournament aimed at showing Muslim sports prowess and featuring 6,000 athletes. Only men's events were included on the programme.
Abdullah Ghafoor is a Pakistani weightlifter.
Nezir Sağır is a Turkish weightlifter competing in the –85 kg division. The 1.74 m tall athlete at 88 kg is a member of Ankara Demir Spor, where he is coached by Osman Nuri Vural.
Weightlifting competitions at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro took place from 6 to 16 August at the Pavilion 2 of Riocentro. Around 260 athletes competed in 15 different events according to their respective weight categories. Bulgaria and Russia were banned from participating in the sport for systematic doping.
The Athletics competition at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games was held in Jaka Baring Athletic Stadium in Palembang from 25 to 29 September 2013.
Taekwando at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games is held in Sriwijaya Promotion, Palembang, Indonesia from 28 September to 1 October 2013.
Intersex Day of Remembrance, also known as Intersex Solidarity Day, is an internationally observed civil awareness day designed to highlight issues faced by intersex people. It marks the birthday of Herculine Barbin, a French intersex person whose memoirs were later published by Michel Foucault in Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite.
Prenam Pesse is a Togolese sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres.
The 4th Islamic Solidarity Games was a multinational, multi-sport event that was held in Baku, Azerbaijan from 12 to 22 May 2017. Previously the event has been held in Saudi Arabia in 2005 and Indonesia in 2013. The second event, originally scheduled to take place in October 2009 in Iran, was later re-scheduled but then cancelled.
Weightlifting at the 2017 Islamic Solidarity Games was held in Azerbaijan Weightlifting Academy, Baku from 13 to 17 May 2017.
