Khalil Taha
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| Bronze medal – third place | 1952 Helsinki | Welterweight |
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Khalil Taha (13 July 1932 – 27 July 2020) was a Lebanese wrestler.[1] He was born in Beirut. At the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria Egypt, Taha won the silver medal in the 73 kg Greco-Roman wrestling.[2] At the 1952 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman Welterweight category.[3] He died in Venice, U.S., on 27 July 2020, aged 88.
References
- ↑ "Khalil Taha". Olympedia. Retrieved 1 August 2020.
- ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-07-28. Retrieved 2012-11-26.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Hodge, Kerslake, Rice Victors In National A.A.U. Wrestling". The New York Times. 30 March 1956. Retrieved 7 July 2010.
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Categories:
- 1932 births
- Lebanese male sport wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers for Lebanon
- Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Lebanon
- 2020 deaths
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Mediterranean Games silver medalists for Egypt
- Mediterranean Games medalists in wrestling
- Wrestlers at the 1951 Mediterranean Games
- Sportspeople from Beirut