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French Greco-Roman wrestler
Ibrahim Ghanem
Personal information
Full nameMahmoud Ibrahim Hamed Hassan Ghanem
Born (1995-04-17) 17 April 1995 (age 29)
Egypt
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb; 11.3 st)
Sport
Country
SportAmateur wrestling
Weight class72 kg
EventGreco-Roman
ClubCairo Army Sports Club
Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing  France
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2023 Belgrade 72 kg
Silver medal – second place 2024 Tirana 72 kg
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 2023 Zagreb 72 kg
Grand Prix
Gold medal – first place 2022 Dortmund 77 kg
Gold medal – first place 2023 Druskininkai 72 kg
Silver medal – second place 2020 Warsaw 72 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Bucharest 72 kg
Silver medal – second place 2021 Nice 72 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2023 Zagreb 72 kg
Representing  Egypt
African Championships
Gold medal – first place 2017 Marrakesh 71 kg
Military World Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Mungyeong 75 kg
World Juniors Championships
Bronze medal – third place 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.

Career

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

References

  1. "International Wrestling Database". whatsmat.uww.org. Retrieved 2024-01-28.
  2. "International Wrestling Database".
  3. "World Championships".
  4. "World Championship 2014 - Junior" (PDF). August 2014.
  5. Lange, Katie (2015-10-05). 2015 CISM Military World Games Kick Off in South Korea Archived 2016-12-15 at the Wayback Machine Department of Defense Live. Retrieved on 2015-10-09.
  6. "African Championships" (PDF). Retrieved 16 April 2019.
  7. Individual World Cup - Dec 2020
  8. "Individual World Cup". Archived from the original on 2021-09-08. Retrieved 2024-03-23.
  9. "European Championships Schedule". United World Wrestling.
  10. Shefferd, Neil (21 April 2021). "Russia claim three more golds on day three of European Wrestling Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 22 April 2021.
  11. "European Championships". United World Wrestling.
  12. "72kg Bracket". United World Wrestling. Retrieved 21 September 2023.

External links

World Champions in Greco-Roman light welterweight (72 kg)
  • 2014–2017: 71 kg
  • 2018–present: 72 kg
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