Egypt at the 1952 Summer Olympics explained

Noc:	EGY
Nocname:	Egyptian Olympic Committee
Games:	Summer Olympics
Year:	1952
Website:
Location:	Helsinki
Competitors:	106
Sports:	14
Flagbearer:	Ahmed Fouad Nessim^[1]
Rank:	40
Gold:	0
Silver:	0
Bronze:	1
Appearances:	auto
See also:	1906 Intercalated Games

Egypt competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. 106 competitors, all men, took part in 65 events in 14 sports.^[2]

Medalists

Bronze

• Abdel Aaal Rashed — Wrestling, Greco-Roman Featherweight.

Athletics

See main article: Athletics at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Basketball

See main article: Basketball at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Men's Team Competition

• Qualification Round (Group C)
  • Defeated Turkey (64-52)
  • Lost to Canada (57-63)
  • Defeated Italy (66-62)
• Main Round (Group D)
  • Lost to France (64-92)
  • Lost to Chile (46-74)
  • Defeated Cuba (66-55) → did not advance, 10th place

Boxing

See main article: Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Diving

See main article: Diving at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Men's 3m Springboard

• Ahmed Kamel Aly
  • Preliminary Round - 62.95 points (→ 17th place)
• Kamal Ali Hassan
  • Preliminary Round - 62.68 points (→ 18th place)
• Ahmed Fahti Mohamed Hashad
  • Preliminary Round - 50.04 points (→ 33rd place)

Equestrian

See main article: Equestrian at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Fencing

See main article: Fencing at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Eight fencers, all men, represented Egypt in 1952.

Men's foil

• Mahmoud Younes
• Salah Dessouki
• Mohamed Ali Riad

Men's team foil

• Salah Dessouki, Mohamed Ali Riad, Osman Abdel Hafeez, Mahmoud Younes, Mohamed Zulficar, Hassan Hosni Tawfik

Men's épée

• Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Men's team épée

• Osman Abdel Hafeez, Salah Dessouki, Mahmoud Younes, Mohamed Abdel Rahman

Men's sabre

• Mohamed Abdel Rahman
• Ahmed Abou-Shadi

Men's team sabre

• Mohamed Zulficar, Mohamed Abdel Rahman, Salah Dessouki, Mahmoud Younes, Ahmed Abou-Shadi

Football

See main article: Football at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Gymnastics

Men's Single Event

See main article: Gymnastics at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Rowing

See main article: article and Rowing at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Egypt had eight male rowers participate in three out of seven rowing events in 1952.^[3]

Men's single sculls

• Hussein El-Alfy

Men's coxed pair

• Mohamed Anwar
• Ali Tawfik Youssif
• Albert Selim El-Mankabadi (cox)

Men's coxed four

• Ibrahim El-Attar
• Mohamed El-Sahrawi
• Mamdooh El-Attar
• Mohamed El-Sayed
• Albert Selim El-Mankabadi (cox)

Shooting

See main article: Shooting at the 1952 Summer Olympics. Six shooters represented Egypt in 1952.

50 m pistol

• Antoine Shousha
• Mohamed Ahmed Aly

300 m rifle, three positions

• Ahmed Hamdy
• Saad El-Din El-Shorbagui

50 m rifle, three positions

• Ahmed Hamdi
• Antoine Shousha

50 m rifle, prone

• Antoine Shousha
• Ahmed Hamdi

Trap

• Seifollah Ghaleb
• Youssef Fares

Swimming

See main article: Swimming at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Water polo

See main article: Water polo at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Weightlifting

See main article: Weightlifting at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Wrestling

See main article: Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

External links

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database

Notes and References

1. Web site: Flagbearers for Egypt . olympedia.org . . 17 December 2023.
2. Web site: Egypt at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417090232/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/EGY/summer/1952/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 21 February 2015 . sports-reference.com.
3. Egypt Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417115533/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/EGY/summer/1952/ROW/ . dead . 17 April 2020 . 10 March 2018.