Said Gouda

Khalifa Said Gouda (born April 16, 1931 ) is a former Egyptian weightlifter.

Career

Said Gouda grew up in the area of Alexandria and was also enthusiastic about this sport because of the great successes of Egyptian weightlifters at the time. After he had achieved his first successes at regional championships and showed good approaches, Sayed Nosseir , the then head of the association and state trainer of the Egyptian weightlifters, took him on and led them into the Egyptian top class in the early 1950s. When in 1950 the world featherweight champion Mahmoud Fayad was banned from the Egyptian Federation for alleged violations of amateur status, he was surprisingly used in 1951 at the 1951 World Championships in Milan and even more surprisingly won the world title. By 1955 he was among the best in the world, first in featherweight, then in lightweight.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight)

• 1951, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Alexandria , Fe, with 307.5 (90.0, 97.5, 120.0) kg, ahead of Max Heral, France , 287.5 (80.0, 92.5, 115.0) kg;
• 1951, 1st place , World Championships in Milan , Fe, with 310 kg, ahead of Johann Runge, Denmark , 310 kg and Julian Creus , England , 302.5 kg;
• 1952, 5th place , OS in Helsinki , Fe, with 312.5 kg, behind Rafael Tschimischkian , USSR , 337.5 kg, Nikolai Saksonow , USSR, 332.5 kg, Rodney Wilkes, Trinidad , 322.5 kg and R. del Rosario, Philippines , 312.5 kg;
• 1953, 3rd place , World Championships in Stockholm , Le, with 355 kg, behind James George , USA , 370 kg and Dimitri Iwanow , USSR, 465 kg;
• 1954, 2nd place , World Championships in Vienna , Le, with 355 kg, behind Iwanow, 367.5 kg and in front of Josef Tauchner , Austria , 352.5 kg;
• 1955, 2nd place , World Youth Festival in Warsaw , Le, with 365 kg, behind Igor Rybak , USSR, 370 kg and in front of Jan Czepułkowski , Poland , 345 kg;
• 1955, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Barcelona , Le, with 365 (102.5, 117.5, 145.0) kg, in front of Luciano de Genova, Italy , 342.5 (110.0, 102.5, 130.0) kg, and in front of Bahjat Dalloul, Syria , 322 .5 (107.5, 95.0. 120.0) kg;
• 1955, 2nd place , World Championships in Munich , Le, with 365 kg, behind Nikolai Kostylew , USSR, 382.5 kg;

International match

1954 in Cairo - USSR, Le, 360 kg - Dimitri Ivanov, 377.5 kg

Web links

• Said Gouda in Top Lifters in the 20th Century
• Said Gouda in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )