Rashid Anwar
Appearance
Rashid Anwar | |
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![]() Indian wrestlers Rashid Anwar(left) and Ajaib Singh Dhaliwal in a training bout at Lane's Club in Baker Street London before the Empire Games, 19 July 1934 . | |
Born | 12 April 1910 |
Died | 1983 (aged 72–73) Camden, Greater London |
Medal record | ||
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Men's Freestyle wrestling | ||
British Empire Games | ||
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1934 London | Welterweight |
Rashid Mian Anwar (12 April 1910 – 1983) was an Indian freestyle sport wrestler who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.[1]
In 1936 he competed in the Freestyle welterweight tournament. At the 1934 Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the freestyle welterweight class. First Indian to win a medal at the British Empire Games/Commonwealth Games. He died at the age of 73 in Camden, Greater London.[2]
External links
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- Rashid Anwar at Olympedia
- Rashid Anwar at the Commonwealth Games Federation (archived)
References
[edit]- ^ "Rashid Anwar". Retrieved 29 September 2022.
- ^ "Who won the first-ever Commonwealth Games medal for India?". Retrieved 29 September 2022.
Categories:
- 1910 births
- 1983 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers for India
- Wrestlers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Indian male sport wrestlers
- Wrestlers at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Commonwealth Games bronze medallists for India
- Commonwealth Games medallists in wrestling
- 20th-century Indian people
- Medallists at the 1934 British Empire Games
- Indian sport wrestler stubs