El-Sayed Nosseir
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Men's weightlifting | ||
Representing Egypt | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1928 Amsterdam | -82.5 kg |
El-Sayed Mohammed Nosseir (Arabic: السيد محمد نصير, born on August 31, 1905 in Tanta – October 11, 1977) was an Egyptian weightlifter. Nosseir won the gold medal in the light heavyweight class at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. He lifted 355.0 kg to book a new world record, winning Egypt's first Olympic gold medal.
References
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Sayed Nosseir". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
- Egypt's first Olympic champions
Categories:
- 1905 births
- 1968 deaths
- Egyptian male weightlifters
- Olympic weightlifters of Egypt
- Weightlifters at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Egypt
- World record setters in weightlifting
- Olympic medalists in weightlifting
- People from Tanta
- Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Egyptian weightlifting biography stubs