Shabana Akhtar
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Shabana Akhtar (born April 5, 1972)[1][2] is an Olympic athlete from Pakistan. She became Pakistan's first woman to compete at the Olympics when she took part in the women's long jump at the 1996 Olympics.[3][4]
She is a 42-time Pakistan national champion, having won the 100m and 200m dashes from 1989–1998, and from 1992–1998 the 400 metres, long jump, high jump, 4 × 100 m Relay and .[5]
She represented Pakistan at the:
- World Championships: 1993 and 1995
- South Asian Games: 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995
- Women's Islamic Games: 1993, 1997.
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1998,2001
References[]
- ^ Akhtar's profile from the IAAF; retrieved 2011-01-24
- ^ Akhtar's bio from sports-reference.com; retrieved 2011-01-24
- ^ Pakistan's female athlete hopes to uphold Olympic spirit, published sometime in 2008; retrieved in 2011-01-24.
- ^ "First female competitors at the Olympics by country". Olympedia. Retrieved 8 June 2020.
- ^ Akhtar's entry from the 1998 Pakistan Sports Board awards; retrieved 2011-01-24.
Categories:
- Pakistani female long jumpers
- Olympic athletes of Pakistan
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- 1972 births
- Living people
- South Asian Games gold medalists for Pakistan
- South Asian Games medalists in athletics
- Pakistani athletics biography stubs
- Pakistani sportspeople stubs