El-Sayed Nosseir
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Born | Tanta, Egypt | 31 August 1905||||||||||||||
Died | 28 November 1974 Cairo, Egypt | (aged 69)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifter | ||||||||||||||
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El-Sayed Mohammed Nosseir (Egyptian Arabic: السيد محمد نصير, August 31, 1905 – November 28, 1974)[1] was an Egyptian weightlifter. Nosseir won the gold medal in the light heavyweight class at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He set a new world record in both snatch with 112.5 kilograms and in the total of the three lifts with 355 kilograms, winning Egypt's first Olympic gold medal.
He was born in Tanta.
References
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sayed Nosseir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Egypt's first Olympic champions