Name El Nosseir Role Olympic athlete | Died October 11, 1968 | |
Olympic medals Weightlifting at the 1928 Summer Olympics - Men's Light Heavyweight 75-82.5 kg | ||
El-Sayed Mohamed Nosseir (Arabic: السيد نصير, August 31, 1905 – October 11, 1977) was an Egyptian weightlifter.
He was born in Tanta.
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.
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