Shah Hussain Shah
Shah Hussain Shah is a Pakistani judoka. Shah competes in the men's -100 kg division. As of July 2014, he is based in Japan.
He made history by becoming the first Pakistani judoka to qualify for the Olympic Games, representing Pakistan at both the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics.
Family
Shah is the son of former Pakistani Olympic boxer, Hussain Shah, who won the country's first Olympic boxing medal, a bronze at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, Korea.
Career
Shah Hussain Shah won two bronze medals at the Asian Judo Championships and two gold medals at the South Asian Games. At the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Shah narrowly lost to Scotland's Euan Burton in the -100 kg division finals, securing a silver medal. He added another bronze medal to his collection at the 2022 Commonwealth Games. A trailblazer for Pakistan, Shah made history by becoming the first judoka from the country to qualify for the Olympic Games, representing Pakistan at both the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.