Mohamed Ali Rashwan ( ar, محمد علي رشوان, born 16 January 1956) is an Egyptian

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. At the

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he won the silver medal in the men's Open Class category.

Life

Born 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, Alexandria ...

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, 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

*Winner of fairplay international award in 1984 *Silver medallist at the

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in open weightWorld Judo Championship on HickoSport website
*Silver medallist at the

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

References

External links

* * * * https://web.archive.org/web/20080820034155/http://www.sis.gov.eg/VR/figures/english/html/Heif2.htm
Mens Open Class at Sports Reference
1956 births Living people Egyptian male judoka Olympic judoka for Egypt Judoka at the 1984 Summer Olympics Judoka at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Egypt Olympic medalists in judo Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Judo referees African Games medalists in judo Competitors at the 1987 All-Africa Games Competitors at the 1991 All-Africa Games African Games gold medalists for Egypt African Games silver medalists for Egypt 20th-century Egyptian people {{Egypt-judo-bio-stub