Zakaria Chihab (5 March 1926 – November 1984) was a Lebanese

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. At the

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, he won the silver medal in the men's Greco-Roman Bantamweight category. He moved to Kuwait in the 1960s and died there in the 1980s.

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1926 births 1984 deaths Lebanese male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Lebanon Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Lebanon Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Lebanese people {{Lebanon-Olympic-medalist-stub