Omar Assar

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Omar Assar
Personal information
Nationality Egypt
Born (1991-07-22) 22 July 1991 (age 32)
Kafrelsheikh, Egypt
Height194 cm (6 ft 4 in)
Weight92 kg (203 lb)
Sport
SportTable Tennis
Medal record
Men's Table Tennis
Representing  Egypt
All-Africa Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Maputo Singles
Gold medal – first place 2011 Maputo Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Brazzaville Singles
Silver medal – second place 2011 Maputo Doubles
Silver medal – second place 2015 Brazzaville Team
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Maputo Mixed Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Brazzaville Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Brazzaville Mixed Doubles
African Championships
Gold medal – first place 2010 Yaounde Team
Gold medal – first place 2010 Yaounde Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2012 Cairo Mixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2012 Cairo Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Cairo Singles
Gold medal – first place 2015 Cairo Mixed Doubles
Gold medal – first place 2015 Cairo Team
Silver medal – second place 2010 Yaounde Singles
Silver medal – second place 2012 Cairo Singles
Silver medal – second place 2012 Cairo Doubles
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Cairo Doubles
Africa Senior Cup
Gold medal – first place 2015 Yaounde Singles
Africa TOP 16 Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Lagos Singles
Mediterranean Games
Gold medal – first place 2013 Mersin Singles
Pan Arab Games
Gold medal – first place 2011 Doha Team
Silver medal – second place 2011 Doha Singles

Omar Assar (born 22 July 1991 in Kafrelsheikh) is an Egyptian table tennis player.[1] He won silver in singles and gold in team play at the 2011 Arab Games in Doha. He also competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Men's singles, but was defeated in the second round.[2]

Career

ITTF World Championships 2017

Men's Singles

Assar competed in the 2017 World Table Tennis Championships seeded in as number 50, facing off against Italian player Marco Rech in the first round, whom he defeated in a close match (4-3), having lost the first 3 sets. In the second round, he was defeated by Hong Kong player, and number 7 seed Wong Chun Ting (2-4).

Men's Doubles

Assar teamed with fellow Egyptian player Mohamed El-Beiali for the doubles event, in which they were unseeded and faced the number 5 seed Brazilian of Hugo Calderano and Gustavo Tsuboi, losing the match (2-4).

"Mixed Doubles"

Assar teamed with fellow Egyptian player Dina Meshref for the mixed doubles event, seeded as number 12 team. They advanced to the third round of the tournament, before being eliminated by the Spanish team of Álvaro Robles and Galia Dvorak (1-4).

All-African Games

Assar won both the 2015 and 2016 All-African Games, Men's Singles. In 2017, his three-peat was interrupted by Nigerian Table Tennis player, Quadri Aruna, who defeated Assar in the tournaments finals (3-4).

2018 ITTF African-Cup

Assar defeated Tunisian Table Tennis player Thameur Mamia (4-1) in the Quarter Finals of the event. He then defeated Saheed Idowu in the Semi Finals (4-0). Finally, Assar defeated longtime rival Quadri Aruna in the Finals of the event in order to win his third African-Cup.

As of August 2016, Omar is ranked 55th in the world in the ITTF world rankings. He reached his highest ranking of 29th in January 2016.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Omar Assar". London2012.com. Archived from the original on 2012-08-21.
  2. ^ "Omar Assar". NBC. Retrieved 7 September 2012.
  3. ^ "World Ranking". www.ittf.com. Archived from the original on 2016-03-07. Retrieved 2016-08-06.
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