Mahmoud Fayad

Fayad (center) at the 1948 Olympic award ceremony

Mahmoud Fayad medal table
Weightlifter
Egypt
Olympic games
gold	1948 London	Featherweight
World Championship
silver	1946 Paris	Featherweight
gold	1949 Scheveningen	Featherweight
gold	1950 Paris	Featherweight

Mahmoud Fayad ( Arabic محمود فياض, DMG Maḥmūd Fayāḍ ; * March 9, 1925 in Alexandria ; † December 17, 2002 ibid) was an Egyptian weightlifter and 1948 Olympic featherweight champion.

Career

Mahmoud Fayad also started wrestling in Alexandria at the sports school of his brother, who was an Egyptian master in wrestling . But he quickly found out that weightlifting was the more suitable sport for him and specialized in it. He joined the Alexandria Olympic Club and trained diligently with the coach Aziz bey Talaat. At the age of 16 he won the Alexandria regional championship with 275 kg in the Olympic three-way fight. In 1941 he won the Egyptian featherweight championship for the first time with 305 kg. In the next few years he made further progress, but was only able to take part in his first international championship in 1946 because of the war. The Olympic featherweight victory in London in 1948 was the highlight of his career. Since he had increasing weight problems after 1951 and was also misdiagnosed with a back injury, he ended his active career at the age of 27. In the civilian profession, Fayad was a tram conductor.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Fe = featherweight)

1946, 2nd place , World Championships in Paris , Fe, with 315 kg, behind Arvid Andersson , Sweden , 320 kg;
1948, gold medal , OS in London , Fe, with 332.5 kg, ahead of Rodney Wilkes , Trinidad , 317.5 kg and Mohammad Jafar Salmasi , Iran , 312.5 kg;
1949, 1st place , World Championships in Scheveningen , Fe, with 332.5 kg, ahead of Runge, Denmark , 312.5 kg and Heral, France , 302.5 kg;
1950, 1st place , World Championships in Paris, Fe, with 327.5 kg, ahead of Lopatin, USSR , 317.5 kg and Julian Creus, England , 305 kg.

World records

105 kg in two-armed snatch, erected in London in 1948,
135 kg in two-armed pushing, erected in London in 1948,
332.5 kg in the Olympic three-way battle, established in London in 1948.

(Note: The world records of Popow, USSR in two-armed tearing with 106, 107 and 108 kg in the years 1937 to 1939 and in jerking with 127.5 and 136 kg in 1936 and 1937 were never recognized by the International Weightlifting Association IAAF , since the USSR was not a member of this association at that time.)

Web links

Mahmoud Fayad in Top Lifters of the 20th Century
Mahmoud Fayad in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

personal data
SURNAME	Fayad, Mahmoud
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	محمود فياض (Arabic)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Egyptian weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH	March 9, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH	Alexandria
DATE OF DEATH	December 17, 2002
Place of death	Alexandria

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