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
Career
discipline	Hammer throw
Best performance	81.27 m (March 21, 2014 in Cairo )
society	al-Ahly
status	active
Medal table
Africa Games 3 × 0 × 0 × African Championships 2 × 1 × 2 × Mediterranean Games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 African Championships 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Africa Games gold Maputo 2011 74.76 m gold Brazzaville 2015 72.50 m gold Rabat 2019 74.92 m  African Championships silver Addis Ababa 2008 69.70 m bronze Nairobi 2010 71.40 m bronze Porto-Novo 2012 73.81 m gold Marrakech 2014 79.09 m gold Asaba 2018 73.50 m  Mediterranean Games gold Mersin 2013 76.68 m Junior African Championships gold Ouagadougou 2007 66.36 m
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

1. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Al-Gamel smashes African hammer record with 81.29m ( English ) IAAF. March 22, 2014. Accessed March 27, 2020.
2. ↑ Jon Mulkeen: Viljoen wins fourth African title, more gold for Mokoena and Chepkirui ( English ) IAAF. August 13, 2014. Accessed March 27, 2020.