1972 Summer Olympics / Participants (Federation of Arab Republics)

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The Federation of Arab Republics , an alliance between Egypt and Libya and Sudan or Syria , which existed from 1970 to 1977 , took part in the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich . 23 male athletes competed in sixteen competitions in five sports. Due to the Olympic attack , part of the delegation left early for security reasons, and some athletes no longer took part in the competitions. No medal could be won.

The flag bearer at the opening ceremony was the basketball player Kamal Kamel Mohammed .

Participants by sport

basketball

The team lost all seven preliminary round games and finished last. After that, the team left prematurely and they didn't play for the 15th place match.

• Squad

  El-Sayed Abdel Hamid Mobarak

  Awad Abdel Nabi

  Ahmed Abdel Hamid El-Saharty

  Sherif Fouad Aboulkheir

  Talaat Guenidi

  Adel Ibrahim Ismail

  Kamal camel Mohammed

  Fahti Mohamed Camel

  Mohamed Essam Khaled

  Ismail Selim Mohamed

  Sayed Tewfik El-Sayed

Boxing

• Said Ahmed El-Ashry

  Light Flyweight: Round of 16

• Mohamed Selim Soheim

  Flyweight: Round of 16

• Mohamed Salah Amin

  Featherweight: Round of 16

• Abdel Hadj Khallaf Allah

  Lightweight: 1st round

• Abdel Hamid Fouad Gad

  Welterweight: 1st round

• Ahmed Mahmoud Aly

  Light Heavyweight: Round of 16

athletics

• Ardelham Khamis

  5000 meters: not started

• Abdel Hamid Khamis

  10,000 meters: heats

• Youssef Nagui Assaad

  Shot put: not started

  Discus throw: not run

Wrestling

• Mohamed El-Malky Ragheb

  Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: withdrawal after 1st round

• Abdel Fattah Sayed Ibrahim

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: Withdrawal after 1st round

• Mohamed Gaber

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: retreat after 1st round

swim

• Kamal Kenawi Ali Moustafa

  200 meters freestyle: prelims

  400 meters freestyle: prelims

  1500 meters freestyle: prelims

• Amin Ahmed Adel Youssef

  100 meters back: heats

  200 meter medley: prelims

Web links

• Egyptian Olympic team from 1972 in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )