 Mahmoud in 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 22 September 2001 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | Javelin throw | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal best | Javelin: 81.92m (2024) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Moustafa Mahmoud (born 22 September 2001) is an Egyptian javelin thrower. He became national champion in 2023 and competed at the 2024 Olympic Games. [1]
He became Egyptian javelin champion in July 2023. [2] He was a bronze medalist at the 2023 African Games in Accra, Ghana with a throw of 78.10 metres. [3] [4]
He threw a personal best distance of 81.92 metres in Dessau, Germany in May 2024. [5] He was a bronze medalist at the 2024 African Championships in Athletics in Douala, Cameroon with a throw of 77.25 metres. [6] [7]
He competed in the javelin at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris in August 2024. [8] [9]
Jan Železný is a Czech former track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He is a World and Olympic champion and holds the world record with a throw of 98.48 metres. Widely considered the greatest javelin thrower of the modern era, he also has the fourth, fifth and sixth best performances of all time. He broke the world record a total of four times.
Andreas Thorkildsen is a retired Norwegian track and field athlete who competed in the javelin throw. He was the Olympic Champion in 2004 and 2008, European Champion in 2006 and 2010, and World Champion in 2009. He is the first male javelin thrower in history to simultaneously be European, World and Olympic Champion. He was also a three-time silver medalist at the World Championships, placing second in 2005, 2007 and 2011. His personal best of 91.59 m, set in 2006, is the Norwegian record.
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.
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.
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