Muhammad Bashir

Muhammad Bashir
Personal information
Born(1935-03-10)10 March 1935
Lahore, Punjab Province, British India (now in Pakistan)
Died24 June 2001(2001-06-24) (aged 66)
Height1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight73 kg (161 lb)
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  Pakistan
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games – – 1
Commonwealth Games 3 – –
Asian Games 1 2 1
Total 4 2 2
Olympic Games
1960 RomeWelterweight
Commonwealth Games
1958 CardiffWelterweight
1962 PerthWelterweight
1966 KingstonWelterweight
Asian Games
1966 BangkokWelterweight
1962 JakartaWelterweight (freestyle)
1962 JakartaWelterweight (Greco-Roman style)
1958 TokoyoWelterweight

Mohammad Bashir (Urdu: محمد بشیر) (10 March 1935, in Lahore – 24 June 2001, in Lahore) was a wrestler from Pakistan. His bronze medal in freestyle wrestling in the welterweight class (73 kg) at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome was Pakistan's first individual Olympic Games medal. Bashir is the only Pakistani wrestler to become an Olympic medalist.

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