Mostafa el-Gamel
Mostafa el-Gamel | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Full name | Mostafa Mohamed Hesham el-Gamel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
nation | Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
birthday | 1st October 1988 (age 31) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
place of birth | Giza , Egypt | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
size | 191 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 96 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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discipline | Hammer throw | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Best performance | 81.27 m (March 21, 2014 in Cairo ) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
society | al-Ahly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
status | active | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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last change: March 27, 2020 |
Mostafa Mohamed Hesham el-Gamel (born October 1, 1988 in Giza ) is an Egyptian hammer thrower and has held the African record in this discipline since 2014.
Athletic career
Mostafa el-Gamel gained his first international experience in 2007 at the Junior African Championships in Ouagadougou , where he won the gold medal with a width of 66.36 m. In the following year he took part in the African Championships in Addis Ababa for the first time , where he won the silver medal behind South African Chris Harmse with 69.70 m and two years later he won the bronze medal at the African Championships in Nairobi with a throw of 71.40 m his compatriot Mohsen Mohamed Anani and the South African Harmse. In 2011 he took part in the World Championships in Daegu for the first time, but retired there with 68.38 m in qualification. He then won the Africa Games in Maputo with 74.76 m and won the Pan-Arab Games in Doha with 70.23 m, the silver medal behind the Kuwaiti Ali Mohamed al-Zankawi . In the following year he won at the African Championships in Porto-Novo with 73.81 m again the bronze medal behind Harmse and Anani and also qualified for the Olympic Games in London , where 71.36 m were not enough for a final .
In 2013 he won the Mediterranean Games in Mersin with 76.68 m and also the Islamic Solidarity Games in Palembang with 77.73 m. The following year, on March 21, he set the current African record in Cairo with 81.27 m and then won the African Championships in Marrakech with a new championship record of 79.09 m. He then came in second behind the Hungarian Krisztián Pars at the Continental Cup there with 78.89 m . In 2015 he won the Arab Championships in Madinat Isa with 74.81 m and then reached the finals at the World Championships in Beijing , where he finished seventh with 76.81 m. He then successfully defended his title at the Africa Games in Brazzaville with 72.50 m.
After a two-year break from competition, el-Gamel won the 2018 African Championships in Asaba with 73.50 m. The following year he won the Africa Games in Rabat with a width of 74.92 m for the third time in a row, but then retired at the World Championships in Doha with 70.45 m in qualification . He was then at the Military World Games in Wuhan with 68.74 m fifth.
In 2018 and 2019 el-Gamel was the Egyptian hammer throw champion.
Web links
- Mostafa el-Gamel in the database of World Athletics (English)
- Mostafa el-Gamel in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Al-Gamel smashes African hammer record with 81.29m ( English ) IAAF. March 22, 2014. Accessed March 27, 2020.
- ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Viljoen wins fourth African title, more gold for Mokoena and Chepkirui ( English ) IAAF. August 13, 2014. Accessed March 27, 2020.
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SURNAME | Gamel, Mostafa el- |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gamel, Mostafa Mohamed Hesham el- (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Egyptian hammer thrower |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 1, 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Giza |