Mohammad Bashir (Urdu: محمد بشیر) (10 March 1935, in Lahore – 24 June 2001, in Lahore) was a wrestler from Pakistan, who won the bronze medal in freestyle wrestling in the welterweight class (73 kg) at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.^[1][2] Bashir is the only Pakistani wrestler to become an Olympic medalist.^[1]

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Muhammad Bashir

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Born	(1935-03-10)10 March 1935
Died	24 June 2001(2001-06-24) (aged 66)
Medal record Men's Freestyle wrestling Representing  Pakistan Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games – – 1 Commonwealth Games 3 – – Asian Games 1 2 1 Total 4 2 2 Olympic Games 1960 Rome, Italy Welterweight Commonwealth Games 1958 Cardiff, Wales Welterweight 1962 Perth, Western Australia Welterweight 1966 Kingston, Jamaica Welterweight Asian Games 1966 Bangkok, Thailand Welterweight

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Bashir was a three-time gold medalist at the Commonwealth Games and also won four medals in the Asian Games. These were 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 (Cardiff), 1962 (Perth) and 1966 (Kingston) Commonwealth Games.^[1]

At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Mohammad Bashir competed in the lightweight class (70 kg) but only went up to the third round.^[2]

Mohammad Bashir received the Tamgha-i-Imtiaz medal in 1962 and the Pride of Performance Award in 1968 from the Government of Pakistan.^[3]