1968 Summer Olympics / Participant (United Arab Republic)

ROUGH

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The United Arab Republic participated in the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City with a delegation of 30 male athletes in 18 competitions in seven sports. None of the athletes managed to win a medal.

Participants by sport

Boxing

• Mohamed Selim Soheim

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Abdel Hadj Khallaf Allah

  Featherweight: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Sayed El-Nahas

  Light middleweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Hassan Nour-el-Din Aman

  Light heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Talaat Dahshan

  Heavyweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

fencing

Men

• Mohamed Gamil El-Kalyoubi

  Foil: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Ahmed El-Hamy El-Husseini

  Foil: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Moustafa Soheim

  Foil: eliminated in the quarterfinals

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

• Ahmed Zein El-Abidin

  Epee: eliminated in the 1st round

  Foil team: eliminated in the 1st round

Weightlifting

• Mohamed Herit

  Bantamweight: without a valid attempt

• Bakr Bassam

  Light Heavyweight: 11th place

• Gaber Hafez

  Light heavyweight: 17th place

Wrestling

• Mohamed Salem

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

  Flyweight, freestyle: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Ibrahim El-Sayed

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: 6th place

• Yehya Mohamed Hassanein

  Featherweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Mahmoud El-Sherbini

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

shoot

• Mohamed Mehrez

  Trap: 19th place

• Badir Shoukri

  Trap: 44th place

Water polo

• 15th place

  Mohamed Abid Soliman

  Salah El-Din Shalabi

  Mohamed El-Bassiouni

  Sameh Soliman

  Galal Touny

  Adel El Moalem

  Alaa El-Din El-Shafei

  Khaled El-Kashef

  Hossam El-Baroudi

  Haroun Touny

  Ashraf Gamil

Diving

• Waguih Aboul Seoud

  10 m high diving: 19th place

Web links

• United Arab Republic Olympic Team from 1968 in Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )