Lahcen Samsam Akka (born 14 June 1942) is a Moroccan shot putter.
[1] Samsam pursued his studies and athletic career in the United States, starting at Oregon State University, where he earned a degree in soil chemistry in the mid-1960s.
After returning to Morocco to work in a lab, he found the sedentary lifestyle unbearable and decided to go back to the USA to pursue a master's degree at San Jose State University.
He explained that his parents were illiterate and lived in the countryside, so they never recorded his actual date of birth, which remains unknown.
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