Abdul Baser Wasiqi
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Abdul Baser Wasiqi is an Afghan
Afghanistan
Afghanistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located in the centre of Asia, forming South Asia, Central Asia and the Middle East. With a population of about 29 million, it has an area of , making it the 42nd most populous and 41st largest nation in the world...

 athlete.

Wasiqi represented Afghanistan
Afghanistan at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Afghanistan competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. The Central Asian nation returned to the Olympic Games after missing the 1992 Summer Olympics held in Barcelona....

 at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics of Atlanta, officially known as the Games of the XXVI Olympiad and unofficially known as the Centennial Olympics, was an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia, United States....

 in Atlanta. He injured his leg (hamstring muscle) before the marathon
Marathon
The marathon is a long-distance running event with an official distance of 42.195 kilometres , that is usually run as a road race...

, but took part nonetheless. He completed the race despite his injury, after limping the whole way, with a time of 4:24:17, well short of his personal best of two hours and thirty-three minutes. He finished 111th and last, nearly an hour and a half behind the second-slowest competitor. Wasiqi reached the stadium and found "workmen [...] preparing the arena for the closing ceremony" and "tarpaulin being laid across the running track". Preparations were suspended long enough for Baser to reach the finish line.

Wasiqi was the only Afghan competitor at the 1996 Games.
He is the president and CEO
Chief executive officer
A chief executive officer , managing director , Executive Director for non-profit organizations, or chief executive is the highest-ranking corporate officer or administrator in charge of total management of an organization...

 of Handsonsite, which he co-founded in 1993. Educated with an AA in Political Science 1999, a B.S. in Organizational Leadership Degree, he majored in Political Science and minored in Pre-Law 2002. He received his Masters degree
Master of Arts (postgraduate)
A Master of Arts from the Latin Magister Artium, is a type of Master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The M.A. is usually contrasted with the M.S. or M.Sc. degrees...

in Organizational Leadership in Political Science and minored in Pre-Law 2004. He is currently working on his Jurist Doctoral Degree. Mr. Wasiqi is a member of the AFG National Olympic committee, and the International Olympic Federation in Lausanne Switzerland, to promote sport and to create a better and a safer leadership aspects for the traumatize children in the third world countries. Mr. Wasiqi is a member of 2 Non profit Organizations in Germany and 3 Non for Profit Organizations in the District of Columbia. Mr. Wasiqi’s hobbies are classical music, golf, cooking, traveling, and running a marathon, spending his time with his family and friends. Mr. Wasiqi favorite cities are Montreal, Hamburg, Berlin, Monaco, and Sydney. Mr. Wasiqi lived in Saudi Arabia; spend most of his teenage years in Germany, and after the Olympics in the US. Future goals privet and personal for Mr. Wasiqi are to run for a government office and to build the bridge of understanding between the United States, Europe and the Eastern countries.

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