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Mohamed Khorshed (born 29 October 1950), is an Egyptian skeet shooter who competed at five Summer Olympics from 1984 to 2000. [1] He is the first and only Egyptian to compete at five Olympics, as of 2010. He is also the first African to compete at five Olympics. He also earned gold at the 1993 African Shooting Championships and bronze at the 1995 edition.[ citation needed ]
He won the gold medal in skeet at the 1995 All-Africa Games in Harare. [2]
| Event | 1984 | 1988 | 1992 | 1996 | 2000 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Skeet (mixed) | T-53rd | T-33rd | T-33rd | Not held | |
| Skeet (men) | Not held | T-45th | T-23rd | ||
Susan Marie Nattrass, is a Canadian trap shooter and medical researcher in osteoporosis. She was born in Medicine Hat, Alberta. Competing at an elite international level from the 1970s through the 2010s, Nattrass has had multiple appearances, in one or both of trap or double trap, at Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and Pan American Games. Nattrass is a repeat World Champion and repeat medalist at the Commonwealth Games, World Championships, and Pan American Games. She was the flag bearer for Canada at the 2007 Pan American Games and the 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Kimberly Susan Rhode is an American double trap and skeet shooter. A California native, she is a six-time Olympic medal winner, including three gold medals, and six-time national champion in double trap. She is the most successful female shooter at the Olympics as the only triple Olympic Champion and the only woman to have won two Olympic gold medals for Double Trap. She won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2012 Summer Olympics, equaling the world record of 99 out of 100 clays. Most recently, she won the bronze medal at the Rio 2016 Olympics, making her the first Olympian to win a medal on five continents, the first Summer Olympian to win an individual medal at six consecutive summer games, and the first woman to medal in six consecutive Olympics.
Egypt, which is represented by the Egyptian Olympic Committee (EOC), competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States from July 19 to August 4, 1996. Twenty-nine Egyptian athletes, twenty-seven men and two women, competed in boxing, handball, judo, rowing, shooting, swimming, weightlifting, and wrestling, but the nation did not win any medals.
Mathias Ntawulikura is a retired Rwandan long-distance runner. He reached the World Athletics Championships final and participated in the Olympic Games in the 5000 metres (1988) and 10,000 metres and marathon. He also participated five times in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.
Matthew Alexander Dryke is an American former sport shooter. He competed and won a gold medal in the 1984 Summer Olympics. He is a two-time world champion in skeet shooting, from 1983 and 1986, and earned a silver medal in 1987.
Mohamed Abdelfatah, commonly known by his nickname "Bogy", is a retired Egyptian Olympic Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in 76 kg, 84 kg, and 96 kg weight class.
Vincent Charles Hancock is an American Army sergeant, sports shooter, and four-time Olympic champion. He won the gold medal in men's skeet shooting at the 2008 Summer Olympics, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2020 Summer Olympics, and 2024 Summer Olympics. He is the first skeet shooter to repeat as the Olympic champion.
Qatar competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, which was held from 27 July to 12 August 2012. The country's participation at London marked its eighth appearance in the Summer Olympics since its début at the 1984 Summer Olympics. The delegation sent by the Qatar Olympic Committee consisted of twelve athletes in athletics, shooting, swimming and table tennis. The 2012 Games marked the first time Qatar sent female athletes to the Olympic Games; following the 2008 Summer Olympics, it had been one of only three countries, along with Saudi Arabia and Brunei, to never have done so.
Egypt competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, from 27 July to 12 August 2012, sending one of its largest delegations ever. A total of 110 Egyptian athletes participated in 83 events across 20 sports, with more women taking part than ever before. The nation's flagbearer in the opening ceremonies was Hesham Mesbah, a judoka who was Egypt's only medalist at the 2008 Summer Olympics. Egypt won two medals during the course of the Games: Alaaeldin Abouelkassem earned silver in the men's foil, becoming the first competitor from an African nation to win a fencing medal, while Karam Gaber captured silver in the men's 84 kg Greco-Roman wrestling event. Two Egyptian weightlifters were awarded medals retroactively, after higher-ranked competitors were disqualified for doping: Abeer Abdelrahman took silver in the women's 75 kg event, while Tarek Yehia, received bronze in the men's 85 kg event. Among other achievements, Mostafa Mansour was the nation's first competitor in sprint canoeing while fencer Shaimaa El-Gammal became the first Egyptian female to appear in four editions of the Olympics.
Abdullah Al-Rashidi is a Kuwaiti sport shooter and three-time world champion. He competed at the Summer Olympics in 1996, 2000, 2004, 2008, 2012, 2016, and 2020, winning bronze medals in men's skeet in both 2016 and 2020.
Azmy Mehelba is an Egyptian sport Olympic shooter, who began shooting at age 11. He was selected to join the Egyptian national men skeet shooting team at the age of 14 and participated in his first international competition at age 15.
Pak Jong-ran is a North Korean sport shooter. She won two gold medals in the women's skeet at the 1990 Asian Games in Beijing, China, and at the 1991 ISSF World Shooting Championships in Perth, Western Australia, with scores of 197 and 191 targets, respectively.
Egypt competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's debut in 1912, Egyptian athletes had appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games except 1932 and 1980, joining the United States-led boycott in the latter.
Seifollah Ghaleb was an Egyptian sports shooter who competed in the Olympic Trap event from the mid-1940s through the mid-1950s and was the European Champion in 1955. He also won medals at the 1947, 1952, the 1954 World Championships, the 1954 and 1956 European Championships, the 1955 Mediterranean Games, and participated at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
Connie Jean Smotek is an American sport shooter. She produced a career tally of eleven medals, including two in skeet shooting at the World Championships, and was selected to compete for the U.S. team in two editions of the Olympic Games. Having pursued the sport since the age of fourteen, Smotek trained full-time as a member of the skeet team for Brazos Valley Skeet and Trap Club in College Station, Texas, under her personal coach Lloyd Woodhouse. Smotek is also a graduate of Texas A&M University, and has been employed as an administrative assistant by the University's agriculture program since 1995.
Hendrikus "Hennie" Dompeling was a Dutch sport shooter. He was born in Haarlemmermeer. He has competed for the Netherlands in skeet shooting at five Olympics, and has been close to an Olympic medal in 2000. Outside the Olympic career, Dompeling has produced a phenomenal record of twenty-one medals in a major international competition: two bronze at the World Championships, a total of four at the ISSF World Cup final, a total of nine at numerous ISSF World Cup meets, and a total of six under both junior and senior category at the European Championships.
Amr El-Gaiar is an Egyptian sport shooter. He was selected to compete for Egypt at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also won a gold medal in skeet shooting at the 2003 African Championships in Pretoria, South Africa. A full-fledged member of the Egyptian Shooting Federation, El-Gaiar trains under national head coach and five-time Olympian Mohamed Khorshed at Doki Shooting Club in his native Cairo.
Egypt competed at the 1992 Summer Paralympics in Barcelona, Spain. The 41 member team competed in athletics, powerlifting and shooting. They won 20 medals including 7 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze, finishing 19th on the medal table. Members of the team included athletics competitors Ahmed Mohamed, Said Afifi, Aymen Ibrahim, Hany Mohamed, Mohamed Abdulla Mohamed and Mohamed Said, and shooter Sherif Abd Alla.
Valeriy Timokhin USSR Honored Master of Sport,is an Azerbaijani sport shooter. Valeriy graduated in 1984 from Azerbaijan State University, with a degree in physical culture and sport. Valeriy Timokhin represented the USSR National team in many European and World competitions. in 1979 Valeriy won Junior World Championship, and went to earn a few medals at European, World Championships, World Cups and World Cup Finals. Valeriy Timokhin has been a World Record Holder twice- in 1989 and in 1995 . in 2000, he was one of 5 athletes in Azerbaijan Republic to have received the coveted " Best Athlete of the Century" title. Valeriy Timokhin was working in Kuwait Shooting Federation as a National Skeet Coach at the period of 1997–2000. During this period Kuwait National Skeet team successfully participated at the ISSF World Cups and World Championships, where Abdulla Al Rashidi won two times World titles. 2000-2004 Valeriy worked at Qatar Shooting Association as a National Shotgun Coach. Several times Qatari Skeet shooters achieved high results at the Arabic, Asian competitions. Nasser Al Attiya under Valeriy's coaching was in the final at the Olympic Games in Athens and overall became 4th in Skeet event. Valeriy Timokhin immigrated to Australia in 2005, along with his wife Tatyana and daughter Kristina. From 2006 until 2008, Valeriy Timokhin was Australian National Skeet Coach and from 2008 until 2016 he was Australian National Shotgun Head Coach. At the 2016 Rio Olympic Games two of Valeriy's Greatest success stories, Catherine Skinner and Laetisha Scanlan, made the Olympic final with Catherine going on to win Gold for Australia. The success of these athletes is directly attributable to Valeriy's skill and expertise.
Egypt competed at the 2019 African Games held from 19 to 31 August 2019 in Rabat, Morocco. In total, 297 athletes were expected to represent Egypt at the games. This later increased to 330 athletes. Athletes representing the country won 102 gold medals, 98 silver medals and 73 bronze medals and the country finished 1st in the medal table.
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