Muhammad Bashir
Olympic athlete
1935 –
Who is Muhammad Bashir?
Mohammad Bashir was a wrestler from Pakistan, who won the bronze medal in freestyle wrestling in the welterweight class at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. Bashir is the only Pakistani wrestler to have won a medal at the Olympic Games.
Mohammad Bashir was one of Pakistan's most celebrated wrestlers in their history. He won three gold medals in the Commonwealth Games and also four medals in the Asian Games—a gold at 1966 Bangkok, two silver medals at 1962 Jakarta, one in freestyle and the other in Greco-Roman style, in addition to a bronze medal in 1958 Tokyo.
His Commonwealth Games gold medals were earned at the 1958, 1962 and 1966 Commonwealth Games.
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Mohammad Bashir competed in the lightweight class but only went up to the third round.
Mohammad Bashir received the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz medal in 1962 and the Pride of Performance Award in 1968 from the Government of Pakistan.
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