Abdul Baser Wasiqi

Abdul Baser Wasiqi (born July 12, 1975) is an Afghan athlete.

Wasiqi represented Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. He injured his leg (hamstring muscle) before the marathon, but took part nonetheless. [ [http://www.rediff.com/sports/2004/aug/27oly-ath9.htm "The true spirit of the Games"] , Reuters, August 27, 2004] He completed the race despite his injury, after limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, well short of his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes. [ [http://www.rediff.com/sports/2000/aug/17tal.htm "Taleban hope to get ban revoked"] , Reuters, August 17, 2000] [ [http://books.google.fr/books?id=qD6A9zRuXksC&pg=PA24&lpg=PA24&dq=%22Abdul+Baser+Wasigi%22&source=web&ots=WHF06_iwHO&sig=Qz2JzPyyE7hMG7KkRjY_UobQxjk&hl=fr&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=6&ct=result "Olympic Track and Field"] , Brian Belval, 2007, ISBN 1404209719, 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". [ [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/htmlContent.jhtml?html=/archive/1996/08/05/spcomm05.html "Britain stuck in time warp as the world races further ahead"] , "The Telegraph", August 5, 1996] [ [http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2006/jan/06/comment.gdnsport3 "Sibson could tell Sunderland about hidings to nothing"] , "The Guardian", January 6, 2006] Preparations were suspended long enough for Baser to reach the finish line.

A. Baser Wasiqi, President & CEO co-founded Handsonsite, 1993. Educated with an AA in Political Science 1999, a B.S. in Organizational Leadership Degree, he majored in Political Science and minored in Pre-Law 2002. Masters Degree in Organizational Leadership in Political Science and minored in Pre-Law 2004. Currently working on his Jurist Doctoral Degree. Mr. Wasiqi is a member of the AFG National Olympic committee, and the International Olympic Federation in Lausanne Switzerland, to promote sport and to create a better and a safer leadership aspects for the traumatize children in the third world countries. Mr. Wasiqi is a member of 2 Non profit Organizations in Germany and 3 Non for Profit Organizations in the District of Columbia. Mr. Wasiqi’s hobbies are classical music, golf, cooking, traveling, and running a marathon, spending his time with his family and friends. Mr. Wasiqi favorite cities are Montreal, Hamburg, Berlin, Monaco, and Sydney. Mr. Wasiqi lived in Saudi Arabia; spend most of his teenage years in Germany, and after the Olympics in the US. Future goals privet and personal for Mr. Wasiqi are to run for a government office and to build the bridge of understanding between the United States, Europe and the Eastern countries.Fact|date=August 2008

Wasiqi was the only Afghan competitor at the 1996 Games. [ [http://www.rediff.com/sports/2000/aug/17tal.htm "Taleban hope to get ban revoked"] , Reuters, August 17, 2000]

ee also

* John Stephen Akhwari
* Pyambuugiin Tuul
* Luvsanlkhündegiin Otgonbayar
* Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics

References

* [http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/abdul-baser-wasiqi-1.html sports-reference]