Nasser Al-Attiyah
Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah (Arabic: ناصر صالح ناصر عبدالله العطية : nāṣir ṣāliḥ nāṣir ʿabdullāh al-ʿaṭṭīyah; born 21 December 1970 in Doha) is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He was the 2006 Production World Rally Champion, 2014 and 2015 WRC-2 champion, an 18 time Middle East Rally Champion, five times winner of the FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies, and a five times (2011, 2015, 2019, 2022, 2023) Dakar Rally winner. His five victories in the Dakar Rally make him the only Middle Easterner and West Asian to win the competition more than once.
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| Full name | Nasser Saleh Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 21 December 1970 Doha, Qatar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Qatar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rallying Rally raid Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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In shooting, Al-Attiyah won the bronze medal in the men's skeet event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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