Ibrahim Moustafa

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Ibrahim Moustafa, 1928

Ibrahim Moustafa ( Arabic إبراهيم مصطفى) (Born April 20, 1904 in Alexandria ; † October 11, 1968 ) was an Egyptian wrestler . He was an Olympic light heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style.

Career

Ibrahim Moustafa learned the trade of carpenter as a teenager in Alexandria . While at work he saw young men wrestling in an outbuilding. He became interested and learned that these young men from the Armenian minority were in Egypt and trained at the Al-Gomrak Club Alexandria. He then also began to wrestle, but first measured his strength with his friends. He later registered with the Olympic Club Alexandria and developed there into an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman style.

After winning several prizes and the Egyptian championship in 1924, he was sent to Paris for the Olympic Games that year . He started there in the light heavyweight division and came to victories in his first three fights. Then he met the experienced Swedish top wrestlers Carl Westergreen and Rudolf Svensson , to whom he was defeated and subsequently took 4th place.

Four years later, he was also at the start of the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam . By now 24 years old, he had matured enormously in terms of strength and technology. Moustafa defeated Nicolas Appels from Belgium , A. Sefik from Turkey , Einar Hansen from Denmark , Onni Pellinen from Finland and, in the fight for the gold medal, Adolf Rieger from Germany . He became the first African Olympic champion .

After the Olympic Games in 1928, Ibrahim Moustafa was initially unemployed. When this became known to the Egyptian public, it was arranged that he got a coaching position at the Olympic Club in Alexandria. In 1929, at the invitation of the Swedish Wrestling Association, he was on a competition trip to Scandinavia . He was able to achieve some successes there, but no longer dominated as he did in 1928. At a tournament in Copenhagen he had to z. B. accept a defeat against the German European champion Robert Rupp .

His son Adel Ibrahim Moustafa (* 1930) also took part in the Olympic Games as a wrestler.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, until 1928 up to 82.5 kg, then up to 87 kg body weight)

literature

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA , 1976, pages O-21 and O-29

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personal data
SURNAME Moustafa, Ibrahim
ALTERNATIVE NAMES إبراهيم مصطفى (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Egyptian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH April 20, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Alexandria
DATE OF DEATH October 11, 1968