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Bahrain at the 2008 Summer Olympics

Bahrain at the
2008 Summer Olympics
IOC codeBRN
NOCBahrain Olympic Committee
in Beijing
Competitors15 in 3 sports
Flag bearer Rakia Al Gassra
Medals
Gold
0
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
0
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Bahrain competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China. The country sent a total of 15 competitors to the Games, competing in athletics, swimming and shooting,.[1] This constituted Bahrain's largest Olympic delegation to date.[2] Among the country's representatives is Maryam Yusuf Jamal, reigning world champion in the women's 1,500 metre run.[3] Rakia Al Gassra was the country's flagbearer at the Games' opening ceremony.[2] In athletics, Rashid Ramzi was originally awarded the gold medal in men's 1,500 meters (Bahrain's first Olympic medal) but it was later stripped due to doping violation.[4]

  1. ^ Bahrain Athletes Bound for Beijing Archived 2010-06-13 at the Wayback Machine, (U.S.) Embassy of the Kingdom of Bahrain; published 2008-07-30, retrieved 2009-07-09.
  2. ^ a b "Bahrain gear up for Games", Gulf Daily News, August 1, 2008
  3. ^ "Record Bahrain team for Games"[permanent dead link], Gulf Daily News, April 29, 2008
  4. ^ ", IOC website, retrieved 2009-11-19, 2009

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