Abdul-Wahid Aziz
Abdul-Wahid Aziz (centre) | |
| 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 | |
Abdul-Wahid Aziz (Arabic: عبد الواحد عزيز) (1931 – 19 July 1982) 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.
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.