Nationality Egypt Event(s) 68 kg Sport Taekwondo | Weight 68 kg (150 lb) Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) Name Tamer Hussein | |
Full name Tamer Abdelmoneim Hussein Born 22 November 1974 (age 49) ( 1974-11-22 ) Cairo, Egypt | ||
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Tamer Abdelmoneim Hussein (Arabic: تامر عبد المنعم حسين; born November 22, 1974 in Cairo) is an Egyptian taekwondo practitioner, who competed in the men's featherweight category. He captured two medals each in the men's 70-kg division at the World Taekwondo Championships (1991 and 1997), and attained a fifth-place finish at the 2004 Summer Olympics, representing his nation Egypt.
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Hussein qualified as a 29-year-old for the Egyptian squad in the men's featherweight class (68 kg) at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, by defeating Tunisia's Mohamed Omrani for the top spot and securing a berth from the African Olympic Qualifying Tournament in his native Cairo. Hussein lost his opening match 8–1 to Chinese Taipei's Huang Chih-hsiung, but slipped abruptly into the repechage for a chance to add another Olympic bronze medal for Egypt in the sport, following Huang's progress towards the final. In the repechage, Hussein redeemed from his ill-fated Olympic prelim feat to seal an adamant 8–4 victory over Austria's two-time Olympian Tuncay Çalışkan, before ending his Olympic run by plunging to a 6–8 decision against South Korea's Song Myeong-seob, relegating Hussein to fifth position.