Islam Mohamed Abdelhafiz Tolba ( ar, إسلام محمد عبد الحفيظ محمد طلبه; born 8 February 1989 in
Alexandria
Alexandria ( or ; ar, ٱلْإِسْكَنْدَرِيَّةُ ; grc-gre, Αλεξάνδρεια, Alexándria) is the second largest city in Egypt, and the largest city on the Mediterranean coast. Founded in by Alexander the Great, Alexandri ...
) is an amateur Egyptian Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed in the men's middleweight category.
Tolba represented
Egypt
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at the
2012 Summer Olympics in
London
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, where he participated in the
men's 74 kg class. He lost his qualifying match to Croatia's
Neven Žugaj
Neven Žugaj (born 19 April 1983 in Zagreb) is a male wrestler from Croatia.
His twin brother Nenad Žugaj (younger by three minutes) also represents Croatia in wrestling. In 2016 European Wrestling Championships – Men's Greco-Ro ...
, who was able to score four points in two straight periods, leaving Tolba without a single point.
References
External links
NBC Olympics Profile*
1989 births
Living people
Egyptian male sport wrestlers
Olympic wrestlers for Egypt
Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Alexandria
21st-century Egyptian people
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