Ali Salman (athlete)

Dallah Ali Salman (Arabic: دلة علي سلمان) was an Iraqi sprinter and basketball player. Salman would compete for Iraq at the 1948 Summer Olympics, which was making its debut at the Olympic Games, making Salman one of the first Iraqi Olympians. There, he would compete in two sprinting events and was part of the Iraq men's national basketball team in the men's basketball competition.

Salman would compete in the heats of the men's 100 metres and men's 200 metres, though would place last in both events and would not advance to the quarterfinals. In the men's basketball competition, the team would place last during the group stages of the event and would be relegated to a lower placement match. There, they would place 22nd out of the 23 teams that competed.