Nadeem Iqbal
Iqbal in 2014 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 3 April 1983 (age 42) Nowshera, Rajouri district, India | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | India | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Cross-country skiing | ||||||||||||||
| Now coaching | Jagdish Singh | ||||||||||||||
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Nadeem Iqbal (born 3 April 1983) is an Indian army junior commissioned officer belonging to the Sher-E-Kashmir battalion and across-country skier. He was born in Rajouri a district in the Jammu division of Jammu and Kashmir in India.
Iqbal competed for India at the 2014 Winter Olympics in the 15 kilometre classical race. Iqbal became the first athlete from Jammu and Kashmir to qualify for the Winter Olympics. Iqbal finished the race in 85th position (out of 92 competitors), nearly 17 minutes behind the winner Dario Cologna of Switzerland.