Majd Eddin Ghazal

Majd Eddin Ghazal
nation	Syria
birthday	21st April 1987 (age 33)
place of birth	Damascus , Syria
size	193 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.36 m
society	Syrian army
Trainer	Imad Sarraj
status	active
Medal table
World championships 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 1 × 1 × 0 × Mediterranean Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Military world games 1 × 1 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 1 × 1 × Indoor Asian Championships 0 × 3 × 1 ×
World championships bronze London 2017 2.29 m  Asian Games bronze Jakarta 2018 2.24 m Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games silver Hanoi 2009 2.22 m gold Ashgabat 2017 2.26 m  Mediterranean Games gold Tarragona 2018 2.28 m Military world games gold Mungyeon 2015 2.31 m silver Wuhan 2019 2.20 m Asian Championships silver Kobe 2011 2.28 m bronze Bhubaneswar 2017 2.24 m gold Doha 2019 2.31 m Indoor Asian Championships silver Doha 2008 2.21 m bronze Hangzhou 2012 2.24 m silver Hangzhou 2014 2.20 m silver Doha 2016 2.28 m
last change: November 7, 2019

Majed Aldin Tarad Ghazal ( Arabic مجد الدين غزال, DMG Maǧd ad-Dīn Ġazāl ; * April 21, 1987 in Damascus ) is a Syrian high jumper .

Athletic career

Majd Eddin Ghazal gained his first international experience at the Pan-Arab Junior Championships 2006 in Cairo , where he won the bronze medal with 2.09 m. The following year he also won bronze at the Arab Championships in Amman with 2.17 m and finished 14th at the Asian Championships there with 2.10 m. He then won the bronze medal at the Pan-Arab Games in Cairo with 2.14 m. In 2008 he won the silver medal behind Kazakhs Sergei Sassimowitsch at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with 2.21 m . During the outdoor season he qualified for the first time for the Olympic Games in Beijing , where he was eliminated with 2.20 m in the qualification . In 2009 he was ninth at the Mediterranean Games in Pescara with 2.15 m and was eliminated from the qualification at the World Championships in Berlin with the same height. Then he won at the Indoor Asian Games in Hanoi with 2.22 m, the silver medal behind the Kazakhs Vitali Zykunow and was eighth at the Asian Championships in Guangzhou with 2.10 m. Before that, he also won silver at the Arab Championships in Damascus with 2.16 m.

In 2010 he took part in the Asian Games in Guangzhou for the first time and was eliminated there with 2.10 m in qualification. The following year he won the silver medal with 2.28 m at the Asian Championships in Kobe behind the Katari Mutaz Essa Barshim . He was then at the Military World Games in Rio de Janeiro with 2.17 m eighth and retired at the World Championships in Daegu with 2.21 m in qualification. In October, he won the silver medal at the Pan-Arab Championships in al-Ain with 2.22 m behind Barshim. At the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships 2012 in Hangzhou , he won the bronze medal with 2.24 m and qualified for the World Indoor Championships in Istanbul , where he was eliminated with 2.26 m in qualification. He also took part in the Olympic Games in London again and could not qualify for the final there with 2.16 m . 2013 followed an eighth place at the Mediterranean Games in Mersin with skipped 2.18 m and a fifth place with 2.21 m at the Asian Championships in Pune . He then retired at the World Championships in Moscow with 2.22 m in qualification and won the silver medal behind Iranian Keyvan Ghanbarzadeh at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Palembang with 2.20 m .

In 2014 he won the silver medal behind Barshim at the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou with 2.20 m and was sixth at the Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea with 2.20 m. In 2015 he was eighth at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with a skipped 2.10 m . He then retired at the World Championships in Beijing with 2.29 m in qualification and later won with 2.31 m at the Military World Games in Mungyeon . At the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha the following year he won the silver medal with 2.28 m and he also took part for the third time in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro , where he was seventh with 2.29 m in the final . In 2017 he won again at the Islamic Solidarity Games in Baku with 2.28 m and won the bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 2.24 m. Then he surprisingly won the bronze medal behind Barshim and the Russian Danil Lyssenko at the World Championships in London with 2.29 m in the final . At the beginning of September he also won the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat with 2.26 m .

In 2018 he won the Mediterranean Games in Tarragona with 2.28 m and won the bronze medal behind the Chinese Wang Yu and Woo Sang-hyeok from South Korea in his third participation in the Asian Games in Jakarta with 2.24 m . He then finished fourth in the Athletics Continental Cup in Ostrava with 2.24 m skipped. At the Asian Championships in Doha in 2019 , he won with a jump of 2.31 m. He qualified for the World Championships there , where he surprisingly retired with 2.17 m in the qualification . He then won the silver medal behind the Russian Ilya Ivanyuk at the World Military Games in Wuhan by jumping 2.20 m .

Personal best

• High jump: 2.36 m, May 18, 2016 in Beijing ( Syrian record )
  • High jump (indoor): 2.28 m, February 19, 2016 in Doha ( Syrian record )

Web links

Commons : Majd Eddin Ghazal  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Majd Eddin Ghazal in database of World Athletics (English)
• Majd Eddin Ghazal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Ghazal grabs Asian Indoor Games high jump gold with Games record ( English ) IAAF. September 20, 2017. Retrieved November 7, 2019.
2. ↑ Bob Ramsak: Naser completes 200m / 400m double as Asian Championships conclude in Doha ( English ) IAAF. April 24, 2019. Retrieved November 7, 2019.