Background and career
Nasser Salih Nasser Abdullah al-Attiyah (Arabic: نَاصِر صَالِح نَاصِر عَبْد الله الْعَطِيَّة : nāṣir ṣāliḥ nāṣir ʿabd allāh al-ʿaṭiyyah; born 21 December 1970) is a Qatari rally driver and sport shooter. He was the 2006 Production World Rally Champion, 2014 and 2015 WRC-2 champion, a 20 time Middle East Rally Champion, a five-time FIA World Cup for Cross-Country Rallies champion, a three-time World Rally-Raid Champion, and a six-time (2011, 2015, 2019, 2022, 2023, 2026) Dakar Rally winner. His six victories in the Dakar Rally make him the only Middle Easterner and West Asian to win the competition more than once.
In shooting, al-Attiyah won the bronze medal in the men's skeet event at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
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