Ibrahim Ghanem

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Ibrahim Ghanem
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Personal information
Full nameMahmoud Ibrahim Hamed Hassan Ghanem
Born (1995-04-17) 17 April 1995 (age 28)
Egypt
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Sport
Country
Sport Amateur wrestling
Weight class72 kg
Event Greco-Roman
ClubCairo Army Sports Club
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing Flag of France.svg  France
World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2023 Belgrade 72 kg
European Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2023 Zagreb 72 kg
Grand Prix
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2022 Dortmund77 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2023 Druskininkai72 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2020 Warsaw72 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2021 Bucharest72 kg
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Nice 72 kg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2023 Zagreb 72 kg
Representing Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt
African Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2017 Marrakesh 71 kg
Military World Games
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Mungyeong 75 kg
World Juniors Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Zagreb 66 kg

Ibrahim Ghanem (born 17 April 1995 in Egypt) is an Egyptian wrestler naturalized French, specializing in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was African champion in Marrakech 2017 in the 71 kg. He won the gold medal in the 72 kg event at the 2023 World Wrestling Championships. [1] [2]

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Career

He showed off in the Egyptian youth national team by winning a bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Zagreb.[ citation needed ]

He was part of Egypt's expedition to the World Military Games in Mungyeong, where he won the bronze medal in the 75 kg tournament.[ citation needed ]

He became continental champion at the 2017 African Championships in Marrakech by winning the 71 kg category, overcoming Algerian Akrem Boudjemline in the final.[ citation needed ]

Since 2020, he has been competing for the French national team, with which he made his debut at the 2020 Rome Europeans, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 72-kilogram tournament by Russia's Adam Kurak. At the 2020 Belgrade Individual World Cup, a competition that replaced the world championship, which was canceled due to the onset of the health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Turkey's Cengiz Arslan.[ citation needed ]

At the 2021 Warsaw Europeans he was ousted from the 72 kg category in the round of 16 by Hungarian Róbert Fritsch, later a bronze medal winner. The same year he made his debut at the world championships held in Oslo where he passed the first round against Aleksa Erski of Serbia and was eliminated in the round of 16 by Gevorg Sahakyan of Poland.[ citation needed ]

At the Budapest 2022 Europeans he was ousted from the main draw of the 77 kg tournament (his new weight category as of this event) in the round of 16 at the hands of Turkey's Yunus Emre Başar; in the repechages he was defeated by Serbia's Antonio Kamenjašević.[ citation needed ]

On September 23, 2023, he won the gold medal in the 2023 World Wrestling Championships. [3]

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References

  1. "International Wrestling Database". whatsmat.uww.org. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
  2. https://whatsmat.uww.org/daten.php?spid=5D0EE44083FF4EFFB2E4DBB141E72CDA
  3. "72kg Bracket". United World Wrestling . Retrieved 21 September 2023.