Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud

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Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud medal table

sprinter

EgyptEgypt Egypt
Pan-African Games
gold 2011 Maputo 100 m
African Championships
gold 2010 Nairobi 200 m
silver 2012 Porto-Novo 200 m
silver 2012 Porto-Novo 100 m
Summer Universiade
gold 2007 Bangkok 200 m
silver 2009 Belgrade 100 m
silver 2009 Belgrade 200 m
Mediterranean Games
gold 2009 Pescara 200 m
Pan-Arab Games
gold 2007 Cairo 200 m
gold 2007 Cairo 100 m

Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud (born June 10, 1986 in Dumyat ) is an Egyptian sprinter .

He played soccer in his youth and was discovered for athletics in early 2003 when he ran 100 m in 10.80 seconds in a national school competition . Only two months later he was sent to the World Indoor Championships in Birmingham , where he was eliminated over 60 m in the run, but set a national junior record with 6.93 s. In July he reached the semifinals in his first ever competition over 200 m at the World Youth Championships in Sherbrooke . Over the same distance he was African junior champion three weeks later.

In 2004 he traveled to the Dekalb International Training Center in Atlanta on a scholarship , where he was trained by Innocent Egbunike . After an injury break in the summer, he became Arab vice junior champion over 100 m in September with the national record of 10.49 s. After winning bronze over 100 m at the La Francophonie Games in 2005, he had to forego a start in the final over 200 m because he fell ill with malaria .

At the African Athletics Championships in 2006 in Bambous, he was sixth over 100 m. At the Egyptian Championships he won over 100 m with the national record of 10.48 s and over 200 m in wind-assisted 20.75 s.

In 2007 he set a series of national records. First he was the Arab runner-up over 100 m in 10.45 s. At the Pan-African Games in Algiers , he set his first national record over this distance in the semi-finals over 200 m with 20.83 s. In the final, he did not manage to repeat this performance; he finished fourth in 21.07 seconds. Another breakthrough came at the Universiade in Bangkok , where he won the 200 m in 20.74 s and qualified for the World Athletics Championships in Osaka two weeks later and for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. It was the first gold medal for Egypt at a Universiade. In the advance of Osaka, he improved his record to 20.65 s; in the quarterfinals he was eliminated with 20.72 s. At the end of the season he managed a double victory over 100 m and 200 m at the Pan-Arab Games in Cairo, each with a record of 10.38 s and 20.64 s (achieved in the run-up).

The following year he was eliminated from the 2008 World Indoor Championships in Valencia despite a national record of 6.69 in the semifinals. He had already achieved a record in the run-up to 6.78 seconds. The African Championships in Addid Ababa started promisingly when he already ran the record time of 10.35 in the 100-meter lead, but he had to forego further starts after the semi-finals due to an injury. With new personal bests of 10.33 s and 20.62 s, he traveled to the Olympic Games, where he advanced over 200 m into the quarter-finals. There, however, even his new record of 20.55 s was not enough for advancement.

In 2009 he won the Mediterranean Games in Pescara over 200 m. At the Universiade in Belgrade he won two silver medals over 100 m and 200 m and set a record over both distances (10.30 s, achieved in the semifinals; 20.52 s). In his efforts to qualify for the World Cup in Berlin over 100 m , he injured his right quadriceps . He still started over 200 m in Berlin, but was eliminated in the preliminary run.

In February 2010 he enrolled at the University of Northern Colorado , where he trained under Kevin Galbraith and Karim Abdel Wahab. In April he achieved another leap in performance at the Mt. SAC Relays with 10.22 seconds. At the African Championships in Nairobi he was fourth over 100 m in 10.18 s. Over 200 m he became the first male North African ever to become African champion over this distance; With 20.36 s it broke the Arab record of 20.41 s set by Qatar Talal Mansour in 1994.

At the 2011 World Cup in Daegu, he impressed with 20.44 seconds, but collapsed shortly afterwards due to a febrile illness that he contracted five days earlier. In the semifinals, which took place on the same day, he was eliminated as the last of his run. Not yet fully recovered, he competed over 100 m at the Pan-African Games in Maputo nine days later . In the semifinals he set another record with 10.13 s and won the final in 10.20 s.

In 2012 he won silver over 100 m and 200 m at the African Championships in Porto-Novo , but did not get past the lead at the Olympic Games in London on both distances.

Amr Ibrahim Mostafa Seoud is 1.78 m tall and weighs 71 kg. He starts for the Al Ahly club and is looked after by manager André Thomson.

Top performances

  • 60 m (indoor): 6.69 s, March 7, 2008, Valencia
  • 100 m: 10.13 s, September 12, 2011, Maputo (Egyptian record)
  • 200 m: 20.36 s, August 1st 2010, Nairobi (Egyptian record)

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Footnotes

  1. ^ IAAF: Second gold for Akkas, historic wins for Egypt and Portugal and two records fall, WUG 5th day . August 14, 2007
  2. ^ IAAF: Egyptian secures dash title in Cairo - Pan Arab Games, Day Two . November 23, 2007
  3. ^ IAAF: Doubles day - Pan Arab Games, Final Day . November 25, 2007
personal data
SURNAME Seoud, Amr Ibrahim Mostafa
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian sprinter
DATE OF BIRTH June 10, 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Dumyat