Mohamed Ali Rashwan Explained

Native Name:محمد علي رشوان
Native Name Lang:Arabic
Citizenship:
Birth Date:16 January 1956
Birth Place:Alexandria, Egypt
Country:Egypt
Weight Class:+95 kg, Open
Worlds Rank:2
Worlds Year:1985
Worlds Year2:1987
Olympics Rank:2
Olympics Year:1984
Olympics Weight:Men's Open
Updated:19 June 2023

Mohamed Ali Rashwan (Arabic: محمد علي رشوان, born 16 January 1956) is an Egyptian judoka. At the 1984 Summer Olympics he won the silver medal in the men's Open Class category.

Life

Born in Alexandria in Egypt, His first international participation was in 1972 in Czechoslovakia and Spain.He retired in 1992 and is now member of the Egyptian Judo Federation and an international judo judge.

Achievements

In 1984, he lost the finals to Japan's Yasuhiro Yamashita, who tore a right calf muscle in the preliminaries. Rashwan stated that he did not aim for Yamashita's right leg because he did not regard that as a fair play, and was subsequently given an award from the International Fairplay Committee.[3]

He also won the gold medal in the heavyweight and open class category in the African Championship in 1982 and 1983.

External links

Notes and References

  1. https://web.archive.org/web/20140104150303/http://www.fairplayinternational.org/cifp/fair-play-award-winners/2010/08/09/156 International Fairplay Committee
  2. http://www.hickoksports.com/history/worldjudochamps.shtml#mopen World Judo Championship on HickoSport website
  3. Web site: International Fair Play Committee - Mohamed Ali Rashwan. 23 June 2015.