Hussain Shah
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| Nationality | Pakistani | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | Syed Hussain Shah August 14, 1964 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | Middleweight | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Syed Hussain Shah (Urdu: سيد حسين شاه) (born August 14, 1964) 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 and only Olympic boxing medal to date. He was the second Pakistani to win an individual medal at the Olympic Games. The only other Pakistanis to ever win individual Olympic medals are the wrestler Muhammad Bashir, who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Summer Olympics, and Arshad Nadeem, who won gold medal in Javelin throw at the 2024 Summer Olympics.