Nasser Al-Attiyah

Nasser Salih Al-Attiyah

Al-Attiyah driving a Ford Fiesta S2000 at the 2010 Rally Finland
Personal information
Born	December 21, 1970 (1970-12-21) (age 40)
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Website	Official website
Sport
Country	Qatar
Sport	Rallying, Shooting
Medal record Men's shooting Competitor for  Qatar Asian Games Gold 2002 Busan Skeet Team Gold 2010 Guangzhou Skeet Team Bronze 2010 Guangzhou Skeet

Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah Al-Attiyah (born 21 December 1970 in Doha) is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter.^[2] He participates in the Production World Rally Championship (PWRC), which he won in 2006, and the Dakar Rally, which he won in 2011.^[3] In shooting, he came in fourth place in the 2004 Olympic Games in clay pigeon shooting^[4] and 15th overall in the 2008 Olympic Games, missing out on qualification for the final round by 2 points.^[5]

Career

Al-Attiyah won the PWRC in 2006,^[6] his third year in the championship, with co-driver Chris Patterson. In that season Al-Attiyah entered with a Subaru Impreza. He gained the championship lead after finishing second in the PWRC class in the Rally Mexico and afterwards he won the following two rounds, Rally Argentina and Acropolis Rally. He was also in a 7-event campaign in the 2007 World Rally Championship season. He is has been competing on the Middle East Rally circuit.^[7]

He also drove in a BMW with Swedish female co-driver Tina Thorner in the 2009 Dakar Rally in Argentina.^[8] He was among the frontrunners until he got disqualified on 8 January 2009 after he had missed 9 checkpoints, the rules stating that 4 missed checkpoints are the maximum.^[9]

In the 2009 World Rally Championship season Nasser scored his first point in Argentina, the fifth stage. Nasser finished second the Rally dos Sertões from Goiânia to Natal in Brazil (24 June-3 July 2009) behind Carlos Sainz of Spain.^[10]

In the 2010 Dakar Rally, he finished second, 2'12 behind Carlos Sainz, the smallest gap in the history of the race.^[11] On January 15, 2011 Nasser Al Attiyah won the legendary Dakar race as one of four Volkswagen drivers, making him the only Arab to ever win the difficult race.^[12]

He was a driver for Barwa Rally Team in the 2010 World Rally Championship season.^[13]

Olympic results
Event	1996	2000	2004	2008
Skeet	15th 120	6th 122+23	4th 122+25	15th 117

WRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Points
2004	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE 32	MEX Ret	NZL 20	CYP	GRE	TUR	ARG 14	FIN	GER	JPN	GBR	ITA	FRA 22	ESP	AUS 13	NC	0
2005	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE	MEX	NZL 16	ITA	CYP 18	TUR 16	GRE	ARG 17	FIN	GER	GBR 21	JPN	FRA	ESP	AUS 13	NC	0
2006	QMMF	Subaru Impreza WRX Spec C	MON 30	SWE	MEX 10	ESP	FRA	ARG 15	ITA	GRE 17	GER	FIN	JPN	CYP 19	TUR	AUS	NZL 26	GBR	NC	0
2007	QMMF	Subaru Impreza WRX Spec C	MON	SWE 27	NOR	MEX Ret	POR	ARG Ret	ITA	GRE 19	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	IRE 17	GBR	NC	0
2008	QMMF	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	MON	SWE 40	MEX	ARG Ret	JOR	ITA	GRE Ret										NC	0
		Subaru Impreza STi N14								TUR 23	FIN	GER	NZL	ESP	FRA	JPN	GBR Ret
2009	Autotek	Subaru Impreza STi N14	IRE	NOR	CYP 11														18th	1
	Barwa Rally Team					POR 16	ARG 8	ITA 9	GRE DSQ	POL	FIN	AUS	ESP	GBR Ret
2010	Barwa Rally Team	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE	MEX Ret	JOR 18	TUR	NZL 13												NC	0
		Ford Fiesta S2000						POR 25	BUL	FIN 29	DEU	JPN	FRA	ESP	GBR
2011	Barwa Rally Team	Ford Fiesta S2000	SWE	MEX DSQ	POR	JOR Ret	ITA 11	ARG	GRE 16	FIN	DEU 16	AUS	FRA Ret	ESP 11	GBR				NC	0

PWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	PWRC	Points
2004	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	SWE 7	MEX Ret	NZL 7	ARG 3	DEU	FRA 7	AUS 5		7th	17
2005	Nasser Al-Attiyah	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	SWE	NZL 4	CYP 5	TUR 3	ARG 1	GBR 3	JPN	AUS 5	2nd	35
2006	QMMF	Subaru Impreza WRX Spec C	MON 3	MEX 2	ARG 1	GRE 1	JPN	CYP 5	AUS	NZL 7	1st	40
2007	QMMF	Subaru Impreza WRX Spec C	SWE 7	MEX Ret	ARG Ret	GRE 5	NZL	JPN	IRE 3	GBR	9th	12
2008	QMMF	Subaru Impreza WRX STi	SWE 17	ARG Ret	GRE Ret						NC	0
		Subaru Impreza STi N14				TUR 10	FIN	NZL	JPN	GBR Ret
2009	Autotek	Subaru Impreza STi N14	NOR	CYP 3							3rd	31
	Barwa Rally Team				POR 4	ARG 1	ITA 1	GRE DSQ	AUS	GBR Ret

SWRC results

Year	Entrant	Car	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	SWRC	Points
2010	Barwa Rally Team	Škoda Fabia S2000	SWE	MEX Ret	JOR 4	NZL 5							7th	34
		Ford Fiesta S2000					POR 7	FIN 7	DEU	JPN	FRA	GBR
2011	Barwa Rally Team	Ford Fiesta S2000	MEX DSQ	JOR Ret	ITA 4	GRE 6	FIN	DEU 2	FRA Ret	ESP 2			7th	56

References

1. ^ "Shooting - ALATTIYA Nasser Saleh - Biography". Guanzhou Asian Games Organizing Committee. 2010. http://www.gz2010.cn/info/ENG/ZB/ZBB101A_SH@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@ENG_number=274776.htm. Retrieved 2010-11-29. 
2. ^ [1]
3. ^ Al-Attiyah clinches first Dakar Rally title
4. ^ Dakar 2010
5. ^ "08.30.04". CNN. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2008/results/SHM403.html. 
6. ^ World Rally Championship - Statistics
7. ^ [2]
8. ^ [3]
9. ^ [4]
10. ^ [5]
11. ^ [6]
12. ^ Al-Attiyah claims first Dakar win
13. ^ [7]

External links

• Nasser Al-Attiyah in the sports-reference database

Sporting positions
Preceded by Carlos Sainz	Dakar Rally Cars Winner 2011	Succeeded by Incumbent
Olympic Games
Preceded by Khaled Habash M. Al Suwaidi	Flagbearer for  Qatar Beijing 2008	Succeeded by TBD

Persondata
Name	Al-Attiyah, Nasser
Alternative names	Al-Attiya, Nasser
Short description
Date of birth	21 December 1970
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Date of death
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