| Ahmed Ghonaim | |
|---|---|
| احمد حسين احمد غنيم | |
 Goneim (standing, furthest left) in 1976 [1] | |
| Personal information | |
| Full name | Ahmed Hussain Ahmed Ghonaim |
| Born | 17 July 1937 Cairo, Kingdom of Egypt |
| Gymnastics career | |
| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics |
| Country represented |  United Arab Republic |
Ahmed Hussain Ahmed Ghonaim (born 1937) is an Egyptian gymnast. He competed in eight events at the 1960 Summer Olympics. [2] He had previously won five medals at the 1959 Mediterranean Games. [3] After the games, he joined a Russian-operated circus, first in Cairo and then in Lebanon. To avoid the Lebanese Civil War he went to Saudi Arabia, where his promotion of gymnastics in the country—in which it had, to that point, been virtually unknown—led to him being considered "the founder of the sport of gymnastics in Saudi Arabia." [4]
