Pakistan won its lone wrestling Olympic medal in Rome 1960
Daily Times July 19, 2021 Mohammad Bashir remains the only wrestler in Pakistan’s sports history to have won an Olympic medal. He won bronze at the Rome Olympics 1960 and contributed to Pakistan’s best ever Olympics performance in which the country took two medals, the other being gold in field hockey. Bashir won bronze in freestyle wrestling in the welterweight class: 73kgs. Of his seven bouts in the welterweight class, he won four. In the final round, he was beaten by both contestants who...
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