Ibrahim Ghanem
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Ibrahim Ghanem (born 17 April 1995 in Egypt) is an Egyptian wrestler naturalized French, specializing in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was African champion in Marrakech 2017 in the 71 kg. He won the gold medal in the 72 kg event at the
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Career

He showed off in the Egyptian youth national team by winning a bronze medal at the 2014 World Junior Championships in Zagreb. He was part of Egypt's expedition to the World Military Games in Mungyeong, where he won the bronze medal in the 75 kg tournament. He became continental champion at the 2017 African Championships in Marrakech by winning the 71 kg category, overcoming Algerian Akrem Boudjemline in the final. Since 2020, he has been competing for the French national team, with which he made his debut at the 2020 Rome Europeans, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 72-kilogram tournament by Russia's Adam Kurak. At the 2020 Belgrade Individual World Cup, a competition that replaced the world championship, which was canceled due to the onset of the health emergency resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic, he was eliminated in the quarterfinals by Turkey's Cengiz Arslan. At the 2021 Warsaw Europeans he was ousted from the 72 kg category in the round of 16 by Hungarian Róbert Fritsch, later a bronze medal winner. The same year he made his debut at the world championships held in Oslo where he passed the first round against Aleksa Erski of Serbia and was eliminated in the round of 16 by Gevorg Sahakyan of Poland. At the Budapest 2022 Europeans he was ousted from the main draw of the 77 kg tournament (his new weight category as of this event) in the round of 16 at the hands of Turkey's Yunus Emre Başar; in the repechages he was defeated by Serbia's Antonio Kamenjašević. On September 23, 2023, he won the gold medal in the
2023 World Wrestling Championships The 2023 World Wrestling Championships was held from 16 to 24 September 2023 in Belgrade, Serbia. Wrestlers get a chance to win 90 quotas for the Wrestling at the 2024 Summer Olympics, 2024 Summer Olympics from the Belgrade Worlds. Any nation wh ...
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ghanem, Ibrahim 1995 births Living people Egyptian male sport wrestlers French male sport wrestlers African Wrestling Championships medalists Competitors at the 2022 Mediterranean Games World Wrestling Champions World Wrestling Championships medalists 21st-century Egyptian sportspeople 21st-century French sportspeople Military World Games bronze medalists Military World Games medalists for France Military World Games medalists in wrestling Military World Games medalists for Egypt