Mohamad Abd El Fatah

Mohamad Abd El Fatah ( Arabic محمد عبد الفتاح, DMG Muḥammad ʿAbd al-Fattāḥ ; * February 4, 1978 in Suez) is an Egyptian wrestler . It was 2006 world champion in the middleweight Greco-Roman style.

Career

Mohamad Ibrahim Abd El Fatah started wrestling as a teenager in 1988. He is a member of the Al Qahira Cairo Police Sports Club and is coached by Khairy Saleh. He is a sports journalist but focuses entirely on wrestling. At a size of 1.85 meters, he wrestled or wrestled first in the middleweight division and since 2010 in the light heavyweight division . He continues a good tradition of Egyptian wrestlers who were able to achieve some great successes, especially in the Greco-Roman style at the Olympic Games and World Championships.

In 1997 he won the Pan-Arab Games in Damascus and in 1998 the African Championships in Cairo. He was also successful at the 1998 Junior World Championship in Cairo, where he finished second in the welterweight division . In 1999 Mohamad Abd El Fatah won the Middleweight African Games in Johannesburg even in both styles. However, he never started in free style later.

In 2000 he was again able to become African champion; he also managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Sydney . In Sydney he came to a middleweight victory over Quincey Clark from the United States . After a defeat against Luiz Enrique Mendez Lazo from Cuba , he was eliminated after the 2nd round and finished 8th.

In 2002 Mohamad Abd El Fatah was again African champion in Cairo and this year he succeeded for the first time in winning a medal at a world wrestling championship. In Moscow he defeated Oleksandr Darahan from Ukraine , Bartolomiej Pryczkowski from Poland , Muchran Vakhtangadze from Georgia and Bradley Vering from the United States in the middleweight division . In the semifinals he lost to Alexander Menschtschikow from Russia , but with a victory over Levon Geghamjan from Armenia he won a bronze medal .

In the following years he could not build on this success and did not qualify for the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. In 2006 he was in excellent shape again. He surprised in the World Cup this year in Guangzhou , the entire professional world and has won victories over Attila Bátky , Slovakia , Ka-Koma Bella runners, South Africa , the Olympic champion from 2004 Alexei Mishin , Russia, which he with 2: 0 laps and 7: 0 points clear hit, Badri Chassaia , Georgia, and Nazmi Avluca from Turkey champion .

In 2008 Mohamad Abd El Fatah failed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Beijing again in Rome and Novi Sad . But he achieved a good result again at the 2011 World Cup in Istanbul . Where he took a very good 5th place starting in the light heavyweight division. On the way to this success he won over Irakli Kadschaia from Georgia, Evgeni Aschkalow from Uzbekistan and Yunior Estrada Falcon from Cuba. He lost to Elis Guri from Bulgaria in the semifinals, and in the battle for a bronze medal in the World Cup he also had to admit defeat to Rustam Totrow from Russia. This 5th place was enough to qualify for the 2012 Olympic Games in London . This was his second participation in the Olympic Games after 2000.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1997	1.	Pan Arab Games in Damascus	medium	before Al Ken Mohamad, Syria and Yousef Mohamad Al Dmidi, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
1998	1.	Africa Championship in Cairo	Welter	before Amor Bach Hamba, Tunisia and Gideon Malherbe, South Africa
1998	2.	Junior World Championships in Cairo	Welter	behind Juri Witt, Uzbekistan , in front of Gela Tschaidze, Georgia , and Alexei Mischin , Russia
1999	1.	All-African Games in Johannesburg	medium	Greco-Roman style: before P. Bezuidershout, South Africa and Amor Bahc Hamba
1999	1.	All-African Games in Johannesburg	medium	free style: before Willem Putter, South Africa and Mohamad Ali Ben Barek, Tunisia
2000	3.	Olympic qualification tournament in Faenza	medium	behind Alexander Menschtschikow , Russia, and Fritz Aanes , Norway , in front of Hamza Yerlikaya , Turkey
2000	3.	Olympic qualification tournament in Clermont-Ferrand	medium	behind Hamza Yerlikaya and Sergei Zwir , Russia
2000	1.	Olympic qualification tournament in Alexandria	medium	before Ali Reza Nikkhoo, Iran and Oleksandr Darahan , Ukraine
2000	1.	Africa championship	medium	before Amro Bach Hamba and Mohamed Smiry, Morocco
2000	8th.	OS in Sydney	medium	after defeating Quincey Clark, USA and losing to Luiz Enrique Mendez Lazo , Cuba
2001	1.	Mediterranean Games in Tunis	medium	before Amor Bach Hamba and Theofanis Anagnostou, Greece
2001	1.	World Cup in Levallois	medium	before Tekin Caglar, Turkey and Ethan Bosch, USA
2002	1.	Africa Championship in Cairo	medium	before Amor Bach Hamba and Pieter C. Gouws, South Africa
2002	1.	Grand Prix of Germany in Dortmund	Semi-difficult	before Hamza Yerlikaya and Alexei Tschoglanow, Uzbekistan
2002	3.	World Cup in Moscow	medium	after victories over Oleksandr Darahan, Bartolomiej Pryzkowski, Poland , Muhran Wachtangadze , Georgia and Bradley Vering , USA, a defeat against Alexander Menschtschikow and a victory over Levon Geghamjan , Armenia
2002	1.	World Cup in Cairo	medium	ahead of Nazmi Avluca , Turkey and Bradley Vering
2003	19th	World Cup in Créteil	medium	after defeating Waldas Sidlauskas, Lithuania and losing to Ara Abrahamian , Sweden
2004	5.	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	medium	Winner: Alexei Mishin ahead of Oleksandr Darahan
2005	1.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	Semi-difficult	before Kalojan Dinchew , Bulgaria and Justin Ruiz , USA
2005	14th	World Cup in Budapest	medium	after defeating Kemal Tajic, Bosnia-Herzegovina and losing to Oleksandr Darahan
2006	3.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	Semi-difficult	behind Jimmy Lidberg , Sweden and Kalojan Dinchew
2006	1.	World Cup in Guangzhou	medium	after victories over Attila Bátky , Slovakia , Ka-Koma Bella Lufa, South Africa, Alexei Mischin, Badri Chassaia , Georgia and Nazmi Avluca
2008	15th	Olympic qualification tournament in Rome	medium	Winner: Mélonin Noumonvi , France ahead of Andrei Samochin, Kazakhstan
2008	16.	Olympic qualification tournament in Novi Sad	medium	Winner: Schalwa Gadabadse , Azerbaijan ahead of Attila Bátky
2010	1.	Mediterranean Games in Istanbul	Semi-difficult	before Beniamo Scibilia, Italy and Mahmut Alkan, Turkey
2010	1.	Africa Championship in Cairo	Semi-difficult	before Hassine Ayari, Tunisia and Choukri Attafi, Morocco
2010	2.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Semi-difficult	behind Babak Hossein Ghorbani Goldasteh, Iran, in front of Dimitri Timchenko, Ukraine and Ahmet Tacyldiz, Turkey
2010	17th	World Cup in Moscow	Semi-difficult	after a victory over Soso Jabidze, Georgia and defeats against Amir Ali-Akbari , Iran and Dawid Saldadze , Uzbekistan
2011	3.	Giwi Kartosija & Wachtang Balawadze Memorial in Tbilisi	Semi-difficult	behind Irakli Kadschaia, Georgia and Majid Aliyari Fezzabad, Iran
2011	11.	Golden Grand Prix in Baku	Semi-difficult	Winner_ Babak Hossein Ghorbani Goldasteh in front of Aslanbek Chuschtow , Russia
2011	5.	World Cup in Istanbul	Semi-difficult	after victories over Irakli Kadschaia, Evgeni Aschkalow, Uzbekistan and Yunior Estrada Falcon, Cuba and defeats against Elis Guri , Bulgaria and Rustam Totrow , Russia
2012	1.	"Dave Schultz" Memorial in Colorado Springs	Semi-difficult	before Justin Ruiz and Beniamo Scibilia

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style (1 exception)
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestling Database website

Web links

• Mohamad Abd El Fatah in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )