Abdul Rashid (hurdler)

{{Short description|Pakistani hurdler (born 1979)}}

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| birth_place = Khanewal, Pakistan

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| sport = Athletics

| event = 110 m hurdles & 60 m hurdles

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{{Medal|Competition| Asian Indoor Championships}}

{{Medal|Silver |2008 Doha | 60 m hurdles }}

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{{Medal|Silver |2005 Bangkok |60 m hurdles }}

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{{MedalGold|2004 Islamabad|110 m hurdles}}

{{MedalBronze|2006 Colombo|110 m hurdles}}

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Abdul Rashid (born 15 February 1979) is a Pakistani former sprint hurdler.{{cite sports-reference|title = Abdul Rashid|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/abdul-rashid-5.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200418090857/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ra/abdul-rashid-5.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 18 April 2020|access-date = 8 December 2012}} Rashid represented Pakistan at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he competed for the men's 110 m hurdles. He ran in the third heat against seven other athletes, including Ronald Forbes of the Cayman Islands and three-time Olympian Dudley Dorival of Haiti. He finished the heat in the last place, nearly two seconds behind Dorival, with a time of 14:52, twenty-eight hundredths of a second slower than his personal best of 14:24. Rashid, however, failed to advance into the quarterfinal round, as he placed fortieth overall, based on his time and performance in the preliminary heats.{{cite web|title=Men's 11m Hurdles Round 1– Heat 3 |url=http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc=ATM012900/index.html |publisher=NBC Olympics |accessdate=8 December 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120821045852/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/trackandfield/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DATM012900/index.html |archivedate=21 August 2012 }}

He made a national record of 7.95 s in the men's Indoor 60 m hurdles event on 14 November 2005 at the 2005 Asian Indoor Games in Pattaya, Thailand. He won a gold medal in 110 metre hurdles (14.33s) at the 2004 South Asian Games at Jinnah Stadium in Islamabad, Pakistan. He also won a bronze medal in 110 metre hurdles (14.62s) at the 2006 South Asian Games held at the Sugathadasa Stadium in Colombo, Sri Lanka.